Staff Software Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Analyzing and decomposing complex product challenges to drive sound design decisions
• Working hands-on shipping code using languages like C#, GO, Python, and TypeScript
• Automating what can be automated and breaking down the barriers of traditional software development to increase developer productivity
• Making meaningful contributions as you own and release features that will impact our large engineering organization, ultimately affecting patients, doctors, and Zocdoc'rs alike
• Collaborating with teams of dedicated engineers and product managers
• Supporting the large product engineering organization with their tooling, deployment, CI/CD pipelines, shared services, and other platform needs
• Mentoring your peers and colleagues by giving thoughtful feedback, with the notion that helping others means learning and growing yourself
• Continuously improving our ability to deliver quality solutions through evolving engineering processes and technical capabilities
• Advocating for a productive and positive developer experience

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional development experience
• Successfully shipped tools for your fellow developers and deployed highly scalable and resilient consumer-facing products
• Diverse experience with a variety of development tools and techniques, including AWS, CI, CD, IaC, APIs, etc
• Experience with containerization, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines
• Demonstrated history of solid and well-rounded system design skills with a strong understanding of OO Fundamentals
• Improved developer productivity, efficiency, and velocity by setting up best practices for coding, testing, deployment, and observability
• A passion for building platforms and understanding what makes a great platform - infrastructure as code, automation, libraries, APIs, standardization, and the right level of abstractions
• Successfully mentored other engineers in the past and encouraged peers to use engineering best practices
• Effective communication skills capable of discussing technical project details and presenting solutions to diverse audiences, including non-technical stakeholders
• A growth mindset and the ability to inspire excellence
• Experience working with a distributed workforce preferred
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent engineering experience is preferred, but not required

Nice to Have

• Experience successfully working with a distributed workforce preferred

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent engineering experience (preferred but not required)