As Team Lead on the Caching Team, you ll architect software that ensures people can find the best flight combinations, as well as making TripStack s software solid and scalable. You ll build novel solutions that give TripStack insight into our data and monitor our performance. Youll invent novel ways of collecting, analyzing and enabling the discovery of supplier data from a variety of real-time sources. Youll innovate and influence the direction of the latest TripStack Technologies. A successful candidate will thrive in and help lead fast-paced environments that leverage agile planning techniques, encourage and reward creative design and intelligent risk taking, and find innovative ways to leverage cutting edge technology. And of course, a demonstrated passion for travel doesn t hurt
Responsibilities -
- Lead the Caching team to Design, write, review, test, and support code for reliable, high-quality systems at scale serving over 250 million requests per day
- Proactively identify technology opportunities for the company, and push technical ideas, proposals, and plans to the entire organization
- Promote quality code and drive initiatives like test driven development
- Work cross-functionally with product managers and other development teams to deliver high quality products and work towards improving our internal KPIs
- Coordinate and monitor regular releases to production
- Participate in on call support rotation and work with the team through incidents impacting our live systems
- Owning incidents impacting systems owned by the Caching Team
- Actively mentor the team through interactive code review and knowledge sharing sessions
Desired Skills and Experience -
- Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical field experience
- 5+ years of experience in Golang, Java, and C# would also be acceptable
- 5+ years of experience and understanding of CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis (time and space)
- 5+ years of experience and understanding relational databases such as Postgres at scale
- 6+ years of experience and understanding of highly scalable caching/no-sql offerings like Redis
- 2+ years of experience and understanding of event processing platforms like Apache Kafka
- 2+ years of experience building large scale, high-performance systems in a complex, multi-tiered, distributed environment
- 5+ years of design and architecture knowledge as well as familiarity with object-oriented analysis and design patterns (OOA/OOD)
- Proven track record of taking ownership and successfully delivering results
- Proven track record of designing/architecting scalable, high availability distributed systems that serve internet traffic direct to consumers or businesses at scale (over 100 million requests per day)
- Experience with Restful API development
- Experience working in a UNIX/Linux environment
- Understanding of performance trade-offs, load balancing and operational issues
- Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization
Additional experience that would be considered an asset -
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform/AWS or other cloud providers & cloud native architecture
- Experience with Docker, Container Orchestration tools like Kubernetes
- Prior experience leading a team