Staff Software Engineer
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Role Description
The Staff Software Engineer is responsible for leading a team of engineers building and designing a product that our customers and associates love. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be part of a dynamic team with engineers of all experience levels who help each other build and grow technical and leadership skills while creating, deploying, and supporting production applications.
- Assist in product and tool selection, configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning, and production monitoring
- Contribute to foundational code elements that can be reused as well as architectural diagrams and other product-related documentation
- Build and grow the skillsets of more junior Engineers
Key Responsibilities:
- 50% Delivery and Execution: Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software, with a clear understanding of the value the software is to provide; Takes a broad view when approaching issues; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances; Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production; Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm.
- 10% Learns and Grows: Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels; Learns through successful and failed experiments when tackling new problems.
- 20% Plans and Aligns: Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful; Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences; Works with the Product Team to ensure user stories are developer ready, easy to understand and testable; Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people; Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.
- 20% Supports and Enables: Fields questions from product and engineering teams; Helps grow junior engineers by providing guidance on modern software development frameworks, and leading technical discussions; Notes gaps on the team and provides suggestions for changes to make the team more productive.
Qualifications
- 3-5 years of relevant work experience
- Extensive experience with front end technology such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript/Typescript frameworks, an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java)
- Relational or NoSQL database technology, cloud computing techniques, CI/CD tools, modern software design patterns
- Experience in effective data modeling with both Relational and NoSQL databases
- Experience with security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication
- Experience with creating and executing unit, functional, destructive and performance tests
- Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
- Experience with version control system
- Experience in designing systems for High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Efficiency, and Security
- Exposure to developing technical roadmaps including work estimation, refactoring and modernizing legacy systems
Requirements
- Must be eighteen years of age or older
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
Benefits
- Health care benefits
- 401K
- ESPP
- Paid time off
- Success sharing bonus