We are looking for a talented Staff Software Engineer who will utilize a modern technology stack to update and maintain our lead platform experiences. This role entails developing and acting as team lead across a large engineering team composed of both frontend and backend developers, along with QA engineers. This position reports to the Director of Engineering - Lead Platform. You will leverage your expertise in technology to meticulously select the latest technologies, architectural frameworks... more details
Job Description
Responsibilities
We are looking for a talented Staff Software Engineer who will utilize a modern technology stack to update and maintain our lead platform experiences. This role entails developing and acting as team lead across a large engineering team composed of both frontend and backend developers, along with QA engineers.
This position reports to the Director of Engineering - Lead Platform. You will leverage your expertise in technology to meticulously select the latest technologies, architectural frameworks, and design patterns for implementation. Your role will involve providing visionary leadership and architectural direction to a dedicated team of engineers tasked with developing lead platform technologies that support our business.
Who you are:
The ideal candidate is a hands-on, outcome-oriented, technology-focused engineer with extensive experience in acting as team lead for teams - helping to drive designing, building, and supporting modern backend technologies. Additionally, they demonstrate a strong partnership with product teams, ensuring alignment between technological innovation and product development goals.
What you will do:
Lead mission-critical projects and deliver platform capabilities end-to-end with high quality
Have clear ownership of one or many products or platform spaces
Get exposure to the partners and customers in different business domains, who will help provide feedback for your product space
Build and grow your engineering skills in different challenging areas and solve hard technical problems
Influence architecture, technology selections, and trends of the whole company
Collaborate with team and peers to design complex applications, peer review code, and suggest optimization
Enable continuous deployment by championing quality engineering practices: linting, unit testing, e2e testing, pipeline automation
Collaborate with and influence product teams to build and maintain design system standards, processes, and adoption
Create reference implementations for the purpose of mentoring and leading more junior staff (when required)
Help define engineering best practices and provide technical mentorship
Investigate and resolve any production issues from end user (UI) to service layer and work to prevent them
Work with project managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and high quality
Qualifications
Required Skills and Competencies:
10+ years of?engineering experience
Thrives in fast-paced environments while architecting dependable solutions that scale effectively
In-depth knowledge of backend technologies, frameworks, and best practices.
Role model and champion modern ways-of-working such as Agile, DevOps and related practices, actively participate in an engineering community.
Strong communication and “storytelling” skills – ability to articulate a vision or concept in simple terms to a broad audience at every level.
Helps enable and establish services and products to take advantage of changing industry trends and opportunities
Is able to step back from a task and reassess size and complexity when appropriate
Takes ownership of the quality of the solution or feature being implemented
Demonstrates competent problem-solving skills (e.g. debugging, analysis and instrumentation) in a context beyond code they've written
Takes ownership of keeping technical documentation for their features up to date.
Familiar with common open source distributed middleware and components such as MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and MQ.
Additional Information
Compensation
Base Salary: $175,000 to $190,000 + 20% Bonus
Benefits:
401(k) plus match
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Time Off
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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