Senior Software Engineer

Your Impact

The Senior Software Engineer is a senior engineer responsible for subsystems of a project. They are expected to lead epics/initiatives, mentor more junior engineers, and contribute to architectural decisions. They have a substantial impact on their team and sometimes across teams. They design and develop high-quality, scalable, and innovative software solutions in a SaaS environment, utilizing cutting-edge technologies and methodologies, and ensuring they meet the current and future needs of the business and its customers.

What You'll Do

- Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Provides technical leadership in project teams, mentor and guide more junior engineers, and contribute to technical decision-making

- Performance Optimization: Focuses on designing systems for high performance, scalability, and reliability

- Stakeholder Engagement: Works with stakeholders, including product managers, designers, developers, and executives, to align architectural designs with business needs and customer expectations.

- Proficient Software Development: Designs, develops, and maintains sophisticated software solutions, ensuring they are efficient, scalable, and meet business requirements with architectural excellence. Responsible for System Design & Grooming for features for a subsystem

- Code Quality and Optimization: Upholds and enhances code quality through rigorous review processes, optimization techniques, and adherence to best practices

- Technical Problem Solving: Tackles complex technical challenges, employing a problem-solving approach with innovative solutions

- Collaboration and Communication: Works effectively within the engineering team and cross-functional teams, collaborating with other engineering teams, product managers, and stakeholders, contributing to project planning and execution

- Continuous Learning and Adaptation: Stays updated with the latest technology trends and advancements, continually enhancing skills and knowledge, bringing innovative ideas to the team

- Technical Documentation: Creates and maintains comprehensive technical documentation, ensuring clarity and accessibility of information

Who You Are

- 7-10+ years of relevant experience in software development, with a focus on SaaS or cloud-based applications

- Experience in leading or playing key roles in significant software projects, showing an ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team

- Experience with developing, maintaining and monitoring large-scale, high-availability software systems.

- Experience with designing and developing from a Security Perspective

- Experience leveraging observability systems (logging, metrics, traces) to monitor and debug production subsystems and generate business level metrics.

- Experience selecting and extending 3rd party components (commercial or open source) that provide operational leverage.

- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with an emphasis on a well-maintained testing pyramid.

- Experience with Agile development methodologies and practices.

- Experience using feature or release toggles as a code branching strategy

- Experience with Contract-first designing and negotiating with other systems

- Experience contributing to technical documentation

Even Better If You Have...

- Proficiency in containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes. Experience in creating, deploying, and managing containers is essential

- Close collaboration in planning and implementing features. They must align backend architecture with front-end design and user experience.

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI) for automated testing and deployment of microservices

- Proficient in designing and architecting microservices systems, including advanced concepts like distributed data