Senior Software Engineer

Overview

This position is critical for taking a growing mid-sized company to the next level. The Sr. Full Stack Engineer develops and executes project plans, inclusive of project scope, kick-off, timelines, testing, production, implementation, utilization as well as managing key stakeholder communications. The role also requires interaction with internal/external IT teams, providing insight into current capabilities as well as envisioning future state functionality requirements. The ideal candidate has experience working in a rapidly changing environment and pride yourself on being an energetic self-starter wanting to make a positive impact on the team and the product.

Responsibilities

•       The role involves working jointly with customers and internal teams to scope integration requirements, as well as building the most effective solution to meet the customers’ needs.

•       Bridge the gaps between user needs, product roadmap and functional implementation.

•       Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical people.

•       Write technical documentation to capture architecture, processes, policies, procedures, installation, and instructions in Confluence.

 

Qualifications

Must Haves-

·       10+ years’ work experience in software engineering, building distributed systems as part of the team and participating in the full development lifecycle.

·       Strong experience with Linux (CentOS) systems running services in AWS

·       Amazon Web Services automation, administration experience (Cloud Formation, VPC, EC2, S3, SNS/SQS, Lambda, ECS, ECR, ELB, EBS, Route53, Cloud Watch)

·       Solve business needs with short-term deliverables, while constantly improving and moving towards long-term architectural goals

Be a Polyglot (Python, PHP, Scala, Node.js)
·       Experience with containerization platforms (Docker) and container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, ECS, etc.)

·       Experience with frequent and incremental development, testing, and deployment

·       Ability to be a trusted advisor

·       Mature our own API and ensure it is able to effectively integrate with 3rd party API’s

Experience with microservices architectures
·       Understanding of solutions that span horizontally across architectural boundaries

·       Strong attention to detail (aesthetic and technical)

Other-

·       10 years of experience in customer centric roles, with exposure to delivery, IT, and pre-sales disciplines

·       8+ years of relevant experience in an agile environment
·       Ability to contribute to product development roadmap and refinement of backend architecture

·       Prototype new technologies to benchmark, analyze, present and discuss design alternatives

·      CI/CD solutions such as Jenkins, GitHub PREnhance, refactor, and continuously improve the codebase

·       Experience with orchestration and configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)

·       Experience with scaling and operationalizing distributed data stores, file systems, and services (MongoDB, Redis, RDS MySQL, DynamoDB)

·       Source Control Management tools (Git, GitHub)

·       CI/CD solutions such as Jenkins, GitHub PR

·       Experience with build tools (Rake, Maven, Ant, Grunt, Gulp)

·       Experience with testing automation tools

·       Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.