Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

What you'll get to do... As a Senior Engineer on the team, you will: Get along with Product Managers to define, influence and gather requirements. Interact with various stakeholders to define robust architectural solutions, with special attention to observability, availability, scalability and API design. Provide technical leadership on mission critical projects. Propose and drive engineering initiatives to reduce technical debt and ensure solid technical foundation. Guide and mentor junior engineers on design and implementation, provide relevant feedback on PR code reviews; be a strong advocate for engineering standard processes. Actively write code on important projects. Help drive releases, on-call rotation, production incident response and post-mortems. Participate in quarterly and annual roadmap planning. Help hire and mentor engineers. Your experience should include... 7+ years of software proven experience with expertise in Javascript Node.js. Strong experience building single-page web apps using modern frameworks, e.g. React, Ember.js, AngularJS, etc. Solid understanding of core JavaScript concepts like scope/closures, the event loop and asynchronous callbacks, promises. Strong experience with MySQL, Elastic Search and Redis. Ownership of the entire software development lifecycle, starting from requirement gathering, prioritising, and planning to release and production monitoring and maintenance. History of demonstrated desire to learn, document, and share knowledge with others. Expertise in large-scale cloud-based distributed systems. Expertise in crafting and implementing external-facing REST APIs that are standardized, intuitive, easy-to-use, consistent, and secure. Experience in messaging systems, asynchronous processing, event-driven architecture, monolith architecture, SOA, and microservices. Experience with Test-Driven Development; observability instrumentation. Experience leading technical teams on mission-critical projects. Experienced knowledge in Scrum process and ceremonies. You might also have... 2+ years of experience with Amazon Web Services. Prior experience within payments and risk domains. Experience with domain decomposition and breaking monolith into (micro)services.