Senior Software Engineer

• Build high-performance, stable, and scalable systems deployed in production.
• Always champion engineering and operational excellence.
• Drive best practices and set standards within the team.
• Influence the team’s strategy and contribute significantly to planning.
• Exercise good judgment when balancing immediate and long-term business needs.
• Creatively think and innovate to deliver delightful experiences for customers.
• Always demonstrate data-driven decision-making and continuously seek solutions to challenging problems.
• Hold strong opinions while remaining open to other perspectives.
• Consistently deliver results, with quality, in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborate with peers, share knowledge, and contribute to technical decisions.
• Lead major functional changes in existing or new software systems.
• Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and improve processes.
• Document code, designs, and processes for clarity.
• Provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices.
• Establish best practices and quality standards within the team.
• Mentor junior engineers and positively influence the team.

What to Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 – 8 years of experience as a software developer.
• Strong proficiency in Java (8+) with experience building scalable, cloud-native, microservices-based systems.
• Experience in building and operating global-scale large platform services in non-prod and prod environments.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with remote peers across disparate geographies and time zones.
• Strong CS fundamentals; strong technical understanding of Kubernetes-based microservice architectures, REST/gRPC communication patterns, caching solutions, messaging services, DB services, API gateways, service mesh, and infrastructure-as-code technologies/processes.
• Direct experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, or other).
• Experience establishing and improving data-driven infrastructure and service KPIs such as performance, scale, availability, reliability, security.
• A strong understanding of security best practices and a high bar for protecting customer data.
• Ability to implement alerting, metrics, and logging using tools like Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty.
• Experience with persistence and caching solutions such as PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, and Caffeine
• Familiar with asynchronous, non-blocking, functional/reactive styles of programming. Hands-on experience with frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, Vert.x, Node.js.
• Operational Experience to run services globally; on-call rotation, incident response, playbooks.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with emphasis on technical documentation.