Senior Software Engineer

📋 Description

• The Senior Software Engineer FS acts as a skilled individual contributor within a team, with the expectation of enhancing your leadership, mentorship, and guidance capabilities.

• You will take charge of achieving scope, schedule, and delivery objectives with minimal oversight from leadership.

• As a Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack, you will influence the program's long-term goals while actively participating in the development strategy implementation.

• You may act as the primary lead in your discipline when collaborating with stakeholders, using your strong influence to drive enhancements in software engineering processes and practices.

• You will demonstrate expertise, accountability, and ownership of your contributions to the application codebase.

• You will maintain a comprehensive understanding of related technical areas and ecosystems to effectively coordinate integrations with those systems.

• You will identify and resolve issues with the systems you oversee, using incidents as learning opportunities for educational growth and system enhancement.

• You will proactively mentor and support junior engineers in developing their skills.

• You will communicate technical issues and developments clearly with team members and clients.

• You will participate in technical interviews for prospective candidates.

• Your strong influencing skills will enable you to propose and assess multiple solutions to technical and process challenges.

• You may serve as a mentor to fellow team members.

• You may lead small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects.

• You will present design documents, system diagrams, and other materials to clients, stakeholders, partners, and fellow engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree and over 7 years of engineering experience.

• Proven expert-level knowledge in at least one technical area, including but not limited to frontend, backend, or infrastructure engineering.

• Experience in utilizing modern, open-source software to prototype and deploy backend web applications, covering all aspects of server-side processing, data storage, and frontend integration.

• Proficiency in web development with open-source programming languages (e.g., Ruby, Python) and frameworks (e.g., Django, Rails).

• Experience in developing and consuming web-based, RESTful APIs.

• Familiarity with team environments that employ agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Lean).

• Ability to author developer-friendly documentation (e.g., API documentation, deployment operations).

• Experience with test-driven development.

• Proficient in using version control systems, particularly Git and GitHub.

• Capability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.

• Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems.

• Experience with scalable search technologies (e.g., ElasticSearch, Solr).

• Ability to handle large datasets and scale their management and storage effectively.

• Experience working with open-source solutions and community involvement.

• Skill in communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Flexible PTO.

• 401K with employer match.

• Paid parental leave after one year of service.

• Employee Assistance Program.