Staff Software Engineer

Role & responsibilities

• Help design and build highly innovative interactive high-performing solutions with scalability and quality.
• Help design software that is simple to use to allow customers to extend and customize the functionality to meet their specific needs.
• Build high-quality, clean, scalable, and reusable code by enforcing best practices around software engineering architecture and processes (Code Reviews, Unit testing, etc.)
• Design and develop tools, libraries, and frameworks with long-term platform mindset thinking for high modularity, extensibility, configurability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with peers and cross team members to understand detailed requirements and own your code from design, implementation, test automation and delivery of high-quality product to our users.
• Help contribute to the design and implementation of new products and features while also enhancing the existing product suite.
• Manage projects with material technical risk at a team level.
• Explore and evaluate new technology and innovation to continuously improve platform capability and functionality

Preferred candidate profile

• 10+ years of experience with Java or a similar OO language
• Experience building and operating large-scale systems.
• Experience with data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, design patterns, and performance/scale considerations
• Experience with streaming multiple systems (Kafka, Pulsar, etc.)
• Experience working with large-scale Kafka deployments.
• Experience working in a DevOps environment.
• Experience with relational databases: Oracle, MySQL, Postgres
• Good knowledge and experience with fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
• Strong fluency with Java programming as well as good understanding of Java memory model and garbage collection
• Experience with JVM performance tuning and optimization as well as experience in diagnosing performance bottlenecks. 
• Working knowledge of concurrency, sockets, networking, operating systems, memory management, runtimes, portability, etc 
• Has the experience and ability to diagnose issues and troubleshoot.