Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of complex software systems and features, ensuring adherence to best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines.
• Architect scalable and maintainable software solutions that address both current and future business needs. Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, define system architecture, and make strategic technical decisions.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and QA engineers, to define requirements, prioritize tasks, and deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders to provide updates, share insights, and solicit feedback.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers, helping them grow their skills and contribute effectively to the team.
• Document software designs, architecture decisions, and technical specifications.
• Contribute to internal knowledge sharing initiatives by sharing expertise, writing technical articles, and participating in sharing sessions.
• Identify and resolve technical challenges, performance bottlenecks through effective troubleshooting, debugging, and optimization techniques.
• Proactively address issues to minimize impact on project timelines and deliverables.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in software engineering.
• Evaluate new tools, frameworks, and methodologies to improve development processes and drive innovation within the organization.

Requirements

• Quick learner of new technologies.
• Self-driven to debug, find technical solutions, and offer improved approaches going forward.
• Team-oriented, taking time to help others, while also comfortable learning from other engineers and approaching problems from different perspectives.
• Experience delivering large projects / features successfully and on schedule.
• Experience debugging complex problems across distributed systems and services.
• Creative thinker when discovering solutions to complex problems.
• Experience with large-scale data including financial data.
• Comfortable with version control Git and Linux/Unix systems.
• Growth mindset.
• Loves music or creation of any kind.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• 5+ years experience as an engineer in Ruby on Rails, Javascript / Node, React, SQL / MySQL / PostgreSQL / MariaDB, API design and implementation.
• 2+ years experience with real-time streaming systems (queuing, event-driven systems, AWS SQS, SNS, etc), No-SQL databases (Cassandra, Mongo), Docker.
• 1 to 2 years experience in full stack system design and architecture.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Golang, Python, Spark (Scala).

Benefits & Perks

• Paid Time Off including vacation, holidays, paid bereavement, unlimited paid sick days, and a company-wide week off between Christmas and New Years.
• Wellness Fridays (close at 1pm on Fridays).
• Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents.
• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, FSA and dependent care from day 1 of employment.
• 401k match.
• Company-wide events, outings, and volunteer days.
• Hybrid Work model with flexible schedule and remote options.
• Learning and development opportunities and career training.
• Free distribution subscription for employees.