Staff Software Development Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code using best practices and design patterns.
• Engage in strategic thinking to identify visions and plans to meet end goals, evaluating situations, decisions, and issues in the short, medium, and long term.
• Analyze and simplify complex problems, processes, or projects into component parts for systematic evaluation.
• Collaborate with business partners, product owners, architecture, security teams, and IT engineering to understand requirements and design specifications.
• Conduct research on emerging technologies, design principles, and development frameworks to ensure solutions remain current and future-proof.
• Provide technical guidance in software design and development activities.
• Mentor junior team members to develop their technical skills.
• Review designs and code to ensure solutions are scalable and of high quality.
• Recommend continuous improvements in processes and solutions.
• Provide technical leadership by coordinating resources to solve complex problems.
• Improve DevOps processes and promote automation.
• Design and implement complex software solutions for APIs, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, real-time streaming pipelines on cloud platforms.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in designing, developing, and deploying production-ready systems.
• 5+ years of experience working on Azure or GCP cloud applications/services (Azure preferred).
• 5+ years of experience with Agile processes such as Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe.
• 5+ years of experience in software development with modern programming languages such as Java, Python, FastAPI, or Go.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Azure SQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., Cosmos DB).
• Experience with messaging systems like Apache Kafka, MQ, etc.
• Experience with container orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes and Docker.
• 3+ years of experience leading software development projects, including goal setting, progress monitoring, stakeholder communication, and mentoring junior developers.

Nice to Have

• Experience promoting proper implementation of SAFe process techniques.
• Experience working with distributed teams across multiple time zones and geographies.
• Strong understanding of delivery practices.
• Experience leading large technical programs with end-to-end planning responsibilities.
• Experience working with technology vendors.
• Ability to make informed decisions quickly and take ownership of services and applications at scale.
• Experience assisting in technical and security audits and implementing audit recommendations.
• Deep understanding of cloud technologies, architecture, and software engineering principles such as algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Github, GitActions, Jenkins, Octopus or similar.
• Experience performing unit testing, integration testing, and participating in code reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience).

Benefits & Perks

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Eligible for 401(k) retirement savings plan and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Fully-paid term life insurance and short-term/long-term disability benefits.
• Well-being programs, education assistance, and free development courses.
• Store discounts and discount programs with partners.
• Paid Time Off (PTO), vacation pay, and paid holidays.