Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

12 to 18 yrs

Job Summary

The Staff Software Engineer is a key member of our engineering team, delivering new features and improvements in a fast-paced, agile environment using modern computing frameworks to drive our mission to make the world a little better everyday by powering our key community functions.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership at tactical level with input into strategy and team leadership, and solve significant and unique problems where analysis requires an evaluation of intangibles

Architect, design and develop robust APIs and microservices using Ruby on Rails & a modern EmberJS/React UI to serve over 100k daily users across hundreds of customer communities

Own the end to end product lifecycle including collaboration with Product, Design and other customer success stakeholders to shape the system

Deliver iterative improvements with performant code to realize the product vision and roadmap plans

Using an API first approach, develop REST microservices that communicate with the event driven platform for Data & Reporting services, as well as integrate with customer systems

Participate in the CICD and DevOps automation initiatives to build, test, deploy & operate on industry leading platforms & tools including AWS Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Sonar, etc.

You will act as a key contributor to continuously improve the way the team collaborates and delivers, while elevating the quality and business value of the product, as well as the technical innovation and excellence standards of the team

Requirements and Preferred Experience

12+ years of professional experience and track record of developing high-quality scalable code using modern computing languages in a self-organized Agile environment required

6+ years delivering software using an agile methodology required (Scrum preferred)

6+ years of professional experience with modern Javascript frameworks (React or Ember). Angular frameworks will be a plus.

6+ years of professional experience with NodeJS based frameworks.

Experience working with Kafka, Redis will be an advantage.

Experience building a heavily utilized at scale consumer-facing enterprise SaaS software (AWS/GCP )

Experience with cloud-native software development and delivery with clear understanding of the standard architecture patterns and design practices surrounding Cloud services and deployments

Successfully built APIs, architected database models including SQL and NoSQL, and event-driven patterns