Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

Overview of the Role

We are looking for an experienced, collaborative and mature staff software engineer to join our

development team. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will have direct impact on the company's

success by architecting our software systems, creating and encouraging team-wide software development best practices, driving strategic technical improvements, interviewing and mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities

● Participate in the development and implementation of scalable system design, architecture principles, requirements, and standards

● Produce maintainable code following the best OOP/OOD practices in agile environment, leading by example

● Develop innovative approaches to technical software development problems

● Architect important systems and anticipate strategic and scaling-related challenges via thoughtful long-term planning

● Set direction for the team and help guide engineering vision

● Build and sustain good working relationships with team members and help them by solving complex problems, reviewing code, and sharing feedback

● Mentor engineers and help everyone level up

Must have Skillls:

● 8+ years of experience designing, developing and shipping complex applications

● Ability to set technical and cultural standards for engineers

● Solid CS fundamentals, with one or more area of deep knowledge and experience (Python/Django preferred)

● Good understanding of algorithms and data structures

● Deep care for user experience and producing high quality code

● Solid SQL knowledge (Relational Databases - Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, etc...)

● Javascript/Typescript experience

● Availability during the morning Pacific Time (6am-10am)

● Comfortable working remotely with a distributed team

Nice to have

● Experience with ReactJS

● Experience with containers technologies (Docker, etc.)

● Experience working with Linux

● Experience with clouds (AWS preferred)

● Experience working in a distributed team

● Experience with Scrum or other agile development process

Benefits:

● Stock options

● Flexible paid time off (PTO)

● Laptop replacement of up to $2,000 reimbursed after 1 year of full time work and every 3 years after

● $400 reimbursed annually for learning, software/hardware or workplace improvements and fitness related spending

● Headset reimbursement

● Company-sponsored English lessons