Staff Software Engineer

Requirements

Responsibilities:

• Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7
• Produce a high-quality framework that is thoroughly tested, code reviewed, and resilient, and improves upon developer productivity
• Provide technical leadership, driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross-functional, and cross-team critical projects
• Mentor junior engineers, grow their capabilities to the next level, and spread your expertise for a stronger engineer team practice of mentorship and sponsorship. Maintaining relationships and developing a positive team culture
• Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying relevant design patterns, write high-quality code, and deliver business impact through fast iteration
• Provide objective and helpful quarterly performance feedback for engineers.
  

Outcomes:

• Impact customer metrics: Have a strong understanding of what the most important customer metrics are and achieve a big impact for improvement by working with Product Managers and through multiple agile iterations
• Tech lead projects: Become the recognized subject matter that your team owns, set up team technical roadmap with managers, and lead the execution
• Strong productivity: Demonstrate strong productivity for fast iteration to impact core metrics even under challenging code bases
• High-quality implementations: deliver high-quality implementations and act as an example of engineering excellence within the team
• Communication: Achieve alignment with cross-team stakeholders for squad planning
• Scalable and reliable systems: Architect and develop services that are highly available and scalable with proper monitoring and alerting in place.
  

Requirements:

• Strong background in working with MongoDB at scale
• Interest in building features with performance, accessibility, and scalability in mind
• Strong product sense with the ability to negotiate the right MVP Ability to write comprehensive, well-structured, highly performant code
• Robust understanding of working on message queues and background jobs
• Monitoring and Metrics gathering (GCP Logs, Prometheus, NewRelic).
  

Nice to Have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• 10 years of relevant work experience in software development
• Experience in software development using a general-purpose programming language (e. g., Java, Python, Ruby, etc)
• Experience working on 3rd party API integrations, with error handling, rate limiting, and monitoring