Senior Software Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities:  

• 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

• • Proficient in Golang (preferred) or Java languages. 

  • 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, 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, 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.  

   

  What We Offer: 

  • A Great Place to work. 

  • Equal opportunity employer 

  • Fast track growth opportunities