Senior Software Development Engineer

What you’ll do:

• You will successfully conduct day-to-day work and solve complex issues in your own specific technical engineering area.
• Share domain and industry knowledge between cross-functional teams and serve as a guide to others by helping junior engineers in their duties.
• Report on the status of difficult or high-level projects to local tech leadership via written or oral means.
• Partner with the business to have a clear understanding of how your own technology stack is tied to business outcomes and the bottom line.
• Advise on technical limitations of software design for products and provide alternative solutions.
• Possess knowledge of features and facilities for integration and communication among applications, databases, and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem.
• Creatively test and maintain software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following design requirements of the customer.
• Take technical responsibility for the health of the codebase, including quality, scalability, and performance.
• Act as a spokesperson for software design best practices, research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns, identify areas of improvement within the code, suggest solutions, and advocate for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability).
• Take a whole systems approach to analyze issues and implement holistic solutions by ensuring that linkages between structure, people, process, and technology are made.
• Strive for optimum organizational efficiency by applying systems thinking across boundaries and making recommendations about policies/processes.

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s in a related technical field; or experience driving technical design end-to-end in at least 2 multi-quarter projects as part of a decentralized team.
• Several contributions to the engineering community through a blog post, open-source contribution, tech talks, etc.
• 8+ years of Software Development work experience (Java or Kotlin experience strongly preferred) with a strong focus on backend development and solid experience working in high-performance, high-throughput, highly available, and scalable services in cloud platforms.
• Experience formally mentoring at least 3 individuals is also required.
• Ability to identify business problems at the project level and team level, and design solutions that are easily testable and observable, making well-defined technology choices and being able to justify them to technical and non-technical observers.
• Strong understanding of how team goals fit a business need.
• Able to understand highly complex systems and design moderately complex systems and can guide integrations across teams within the business unit.
• Strong understanding of testing and monitoring tools and technologies and uses this knowledge to identify and advocate for project quality via testing, monitoring, and alerting at the project level.
• Ability to establish operational excellence metrics at the team level.