Staff I Software Engineer

workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture

Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 2 days a week

- Provide technical expertise in requirements analysis, design, effort estimation, development, testing and delivery of highly scalable and secure distributed backend services

- Work with product management, architects and other engineering teams to understand stated and unstated needs and turn them into functional and technical requirements

- Maintain a strong sense of business value and return on investment in planning, design, and communication

- Lead technical design and architecture discussions and drive technical decisions while making appropriate trade-offs on technology, functionality, robustness, performance and extensibility

- Estimate the work scope and timelines, and consistently deliver on those commitments

- Implement, refine, and enforce software development techniques to ensure that the delivered features meet software integration, performance, security, and maintainability expectations

- Research, test, benchmark, and evaluate new tools and technologies, and recommend ways to implement them in product development

- Maintain high standards of software quality and technical excellence within the team by establishing good practices and writing clean, testable, maintainable, and secure code

- Contribute to a forward-thinking team of developers, acting as an agent of change and evangelist for a quality-first culture within the organization

- Mentor and coach team members to guide them to solutions on complex design issues and do peer code reviews

- Proactively identify issues, bottlenecks, gaps, or other areas of concerns or opportunities and work to either directly affect change, or advocate for that change

- Perform critical maintenance, deployment, and release support activities, including occasional off-hours support

Masters degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or related disciplines

10+ years of professional experience in building Web scale highly available multi-tenant SaaS with focus on backend platform, frameworks, RESTful APIs and microservices

2+ years of experience with a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and solid understanding of cloud-native services

Extensive experience with SQL, relational database design, SQL query optimization Education: BS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: - Expert in C# - Fluent in SQL, data modeling and transactional flows

- A solid computer science foundation including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns, with a proven track record of writing high concurrency, multi-threaded, secure, scalable code

- Proven experience in working with API gateway services such As Apigee, identity management, authentication and authorization

- Working knowledge of event driven architecture and experience with a messaging service such as Kafka, RabbitMQ

- Superior analytical, problem-solving and system level performance analysis abilities

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Adaptable team player with strong collaboration skills and a focus on results and value delivery

- Experience with ORM frameworks such as Entity Framework or Hibernate

- Experience working in an Agile development environment

- Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process improvements