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We have an opportunity for a full stack Staff Software Engineer to join our org. We are looking for hands-on engineers with proven experience developing, running, and scaling applications and platforms in a production environment. You will work on a highly-focused engineering team implementing applications, platforms, microservices, and handling large sets of data.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter and motivated to understand and leverage cutting edge technologies that will bring value to the organization. You will also play a vital role driving software innovations.

Responsibilities

• Be a part of a high performing team developing scalable, reliable, and cost-effective software solutions with an emphasis on quality, performance, resilience, and efficiency.

• Work with Product, Operations, and Engineering stakeholders to understand the production and scalability requirements of assigned projects.

• Work on several projects with multiple dependencies and complex requirements upstream and downstream and with stakeholders across teams.

• Identify and address performance bottlenecks in both frontend and backend components, and optimize applications for speed and scalability.

• Lead the design, implementation, deployment, and operation of our production system architecture, applications, platforms, and pipelines.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a cohesive and unified approach, and mentor junior team members

Key Skills

• A graduate degree in computer science, or similar discipline.

• 8+ years of professional software development experience delivering high quality standalone and web applications, platforms, and micro services.

• Proficiency with Ruby on Rails (requirement/use will diminish over time).

• Proficiency with Go (requirement/use will increase over time).

• Knowledge of Javascript/Typescript and React ( vue.js experience short term)

• Experience with a wide variety of databases (relational, non-relational, graph, in-memory). Preferred PostgreSQL, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch knowledge.

• Experience with cloud implementation & architecture, container technologies, and orchestration tools, specifically using AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform, as well as general DevOps.

• Strong experience designing and implementing APIs, complex microservices, system architecture, and handling big data.

• Experience with Agile/Scrum.

• Excellent documentation and communication skills.