Staff Software Engineer, NextGen

Who we are looking for:

As a Staff Engineer within our NextGen Engineering team, your primary responsibility will be to enhance and maintain a dedicated and unwavering engineering focus on the current versions of our products utilized by our customers. At MAX Digital, we believe that innovation persists beyond product launch.

As an expert in our technologies and a lead engineer, you will offer guidance to both our Front End and Back End teams. This entails collaborating with Product Owners to define requirements for the development of new SaaS and mobile applications that revolutionize the automotive industry. The Staff Engineer is responsible for generating practical technical specifications, overseeing code ownership, assigning tasks to team members, and reviewing & providing feedback on their code prior to release.

Our NextGen Engineering team works closely with the MAX Digital legacy teams to transform our core systems by leveraging state-of-the-art technologies. The ideal candidate is strategic, capable of assuming the role of an architect, and adept at building consensus with engineers across the organization. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the development and growth of best-in-class automotive solutions.

What you will do:

• Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
• Architect, deliver, and maintain systems with many components and services.
• Collaborate with software and production engineers to design scalable services, plan feature roll-out, and ensure high reliability and performance of our products.
• Influences companywide engineering standards for tooling, best practices, and build systems.
• Develop and implement 2-3 year lifecycle plans for all tools to ensure business risk and liability are accounted for.
• Contribute, influence, and set standards for all technical aspects of a product or service including but not limited to; testing, debugging, performance, observability, alerting, languages.
• Implements engineering wide security standards and ensures security compliance for the business.
• Modify and develop custom software patterns as needed to solve the most complex software problems.
• Accountable for the overall performance of products and/or services within a defined area of focus.
• Conduct code reviews, develop high-quality documentation, and ensure the team builds robust test suites for its products.
• Lead team discussions to define requirements on new and current products.
• Respond to and troubleshoot the most complex problems quickly, efficiently, and effectively.
• Act as a mentor & leader for less experienced engineers.
• Handle multiple competing priorities in an agile, fast-paced environment.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

What you will need:

• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years Experience architecting, developing, and delivering software products
• 8+ years of experience building and deploying Web applications at scale
• Deep technical knowledge in several of the following technologies: Javascript / TypeScript, NodeJS, VueJS, GraphQL, Apollo Server, MongoDB, AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, SQS, SNS), SQL Server, CI/CD automation tools, Vercel, Sentry, Data Dog
• Evidence of successfully leading initiatives across multiple teams over multiple years
• Experience with transitional architecture or replacing existing systems without downtime
• Proven background in API development, system design, and caching
• Excellent communication skills between the technical and non-technical teammates; including problem solving, larger audience presentations, and one on one work
• Experience with contributing to staffing plans supporting engineering management
• Experience in a highly iterative environment with automated testing and continuous integration
• Experience maintaining and extending an existing codebase, adapting to pre-existing patterns and tracing the code’s path of execution
• Experience debugging distributed systems  
• Extensive experience developing unit tests
• Experience with build & deployment automation (CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc)
• Experience in automotive industry a plus.#LI-NX1