Software Engineer

A Staff Software Engineer is primarily responsible for developing, maintaining, and orchestrating various Backend components, ensuring feature delivery aligns with technical standards and project timelines while prioritizing product stability. Acting as a senior individual contributor on their team, they take ownership of complex projects, lead technical direction, and mentor peers through code reviews, paired programming, and refinement sessions. You’ll also be the designated Tech Lead for the team, taking on additional team responsibilities which include, but are not limited to, upholding high-quality coding standards, overseeing ticket and documentation processes, and collaborating with Product Management to prioritize work, manage tech debt, and drive engineering improvements. They also plan sprints and advocate for initiatives, including, but not limited to, performance optimizations, re-architecting efforts, or infrastructure improvements.

Role Summary

• Develop software aligned with specifications & designs, ensuring code is well-tested, maintainable, and documented;
• Work autonomously with minimal oversight, delivering production-ready solutions that prioritize long-term maintainability and supportability;
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert for your team's product, contributing to complex algorithmic tasks, feature designs, and broader technical standards;
• Create, communicate, and defend design decisions to your team and the broader engineering organization through demo sessions, chapter meetings, and architecture reviews;
• Take ownership of Jira epics or large tasks, driving them to completion and demonstrating work to ensure requirements are met;
• Manage builds, releases, and change log creation while adapting development efforts to align with the team's SDLC;
• Oversee engineering briefs, review architectural design documents, and maintain a customer-centric approach while supporting team members through regular check-ins and feedback;
• Mentor engineers through facilitating pull-request reviews for your team, paired programming sessions, and technical guidance on design & best practices; and
• Be the team’s designated Tech-Lead, which includes the following responsibilities:
• Collaborate with Product to refine Jira tasks, estimate effort for development activities, and align Pod priorities with roadmap timelines;
• Oversee Jira standards for the team’s work, ensuring work is scoped properly with clear & tangible acceptance criteria;
• Identify and document technical debt, translating it into actionable tickets for review; and
• Oversee and review Pod technical work, ensuring feature stability and adherence to the application’s architecture.

Job Requirements

• 10 - 15 years’ experience;
• BS, BA in Computer Science or other related degree (boot camp(s) and/or work experience can be substituted for degree requirements);
• Mastery in Typescript/Javascript or a similar functional programming language which isn’t strongly typed, including understanding threading or multi-processing for the given language;
• Working knowledge of AWS Lambdas or AWS Fargate;
• Mastery of a standard IDE for code development;
• Familiarity with a standard code repository (e.g., git);
• Familiarity with the standard package manager used by Node;
• Demonstrated proficiency on how to deploy the framework;
• Familiarity with one CI/CD framework;
• Experience designing and developing product features from design to production deployment;
• Previous experience supporting a production environment;
• Ability to demonstrate good communication skills, including the ability to clearly and adequately in order to define a position and defend it (in writing or verbally);
• Ability to document a design, component, or workflow they have working knowledge of; and
• Ability to create and design technical workflows and break that larger project into smaller workable components.

Nice to Haves:

• Demonstrable knowledge in the creation, use, and support of GraphQL in a production environment;
• Demonstrable knowledge in the creation, use, and support of a document database like MongoDB;
• Advanced experience with CI/CD platforms & best practices;
• Additional experience with other AWS products, such as S3, IAM, System & Secrets Manager, Elastic Container Registry, Event Bridge, and API Gateway;
• Experience with container technologies, such as Docker or Kubernetes; and/or
• Experience with IaC technologies, such as AWS CDK or Terraform.

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