Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

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Helps the team get better technically, mentors junior associates, and keeps customer success in focus, in particular:

• Pushes the team towards better quality software by constructively pointing out opportunities to reduce complexity and to write cleaner code and more effective tests.
• Helps other team members to come up with simpler, more robust, and more efficient designs.
• Identifies root causes of issues and fixes those rather than their symptoms.
• Actively shares knowledge in their field of expertise, e.g., by contributing to open source software projects, offering training sessions, holding conference presentations, etc.
• Empowers, mentors, and grows less experienced team members, e.g., by sharing knowledge and providing hints so they come up with their own solutions.
• Actively increases awareness of information security among coworkers and demonstrates how to improve vulnerable code.
• Understands customer and consumer value and slices/writes user stories accordingly to deliver value faster.
• Actively shapes team vision and helps shape the team roadmap towards achieving it.

Additions for service-delivering teams

• Designs services to be self-healing and to offer self-service capabilities from the ground up to achieve minimum manual intervention.
• Seeks out the root causes of incidents and inspires improvements in a blameless fashion.
• Strives for smooth migration paths, in particular for breaking changes.
• Diligently collaborates with stakeholders to optimize service selection and usage to minimize costs for derived products.

Secondary Duties and Responsibilities

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• Leads by example.
• Participates in team hiring activities.
• Understands the impact of partner enablement on the growth of the company.
• Reflects on how the team works towards delivering value and actively improves processes within their team.
• Becomes a subject matter expert in one or more product areas.
• Translates business requirements to user stories and actively seeks feedback by the stakeholders.
• Supports team management in prioritizing backlog items.
• Quantifies impact and values of features to inform prioritization of issues and secure necessary budgets.
• Considers Blue Yonder design guidelines and consults architects as appropriate.
• Feeds larger refactoring opportunities into the team's backlog.
• Evolves the team’s continuous integration pipeline and fixes broken builds.
• Performs benchmark analyses, identifies hot spots, and derives appropriate measures to improve performance.
• Develops prototypes and proofs of principles for innovative features.
• Reflects on alignment of team vision with company vision.
• Steadily extends their knowledge to identify synergies across domains and speed up time to become an expert in new areas.
• Makes impediments transparent and helps others to overcome theirs.
• Has a deep understanding of the team’s problem domain and interaction points with other teams.
• Timely and proactively communicates impediments to commitments.

What we are looking for:

• 14+ Yrs of Demonstrable experience with microservices based architecture on Cloud at scale.
• Experience with implementation of Event driven architecture using Kafka, Spark or similar technologies
• Hands-on development skills along with architecture/design experience; should not have moved away from software development
• Demonstrable experience, thorough knowledge and interests in Cloud native architecture, Distributed micro-services, Multi-tenant SaaS solution and Cloud Scalability, performance and High availability
• Experience with API management platforms & providing / consuming RESTful APIs
• Experience with varied tools such as Spring Boot, OAuth, REST, GraphQL, RDBMS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, React.
• Experience with DevOps, Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure automation.
• Good Understanding of secure architectures, secure configuration and identity management.