Sr Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Build high-quality, clean, scalable, and reusable code by enforcing best practices around software engineering architecture and processes (Code Reviews, Unit testing, etc.) on the team.
• Work with the product owners to understand detailed requirements and own your code from design, implementation, test automation and delivery of high-quality product to our users.
• Drive the design, prototype, implementation, and scale of cloud data platforms to tackle business needs.
• Identify ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality.
• Plan and perform development tasks from design specifications.
• Provide accurate time estimates for development tasks.
• Construct and verify (unit test) software components to meet design specifications.
• Perform quality assurance functions by collaborating with the cross-team members to identify and resolve software defects.
• Provide mentoring on software design, construction, development methodologies, and best practices.
• Participate in production support and on-call rotation for the services owned by the team.
• Mentors less experienced engineers in understanding the big picture of company objectives, constraints, inter-team dependencies, etc.
• Participate in creating standards and ensuring team members adhere to standards, such as security patterns, logging patterns, etc.
• Collaborate with project architects and cross-functional team members/vendors in different geographical locations and assist team members to prove the validity of new software technologies.
• Promote AGILE processes among development and the business, including facilitation of scrums.
• Have ownership over the things you build, help shape the product and technical vision, direction, and how we iterate.
• Work closely with your product and design teammates for improved stability, reliability, and quality.
• Perform other duties as assigned to ensure the success of the team and the entire organization.
• Run numerous experiments in a fast-paced, analytical culture so you can quickly learn and adapt your work.
• Promote a positive engineering culture through teamwork, engagement, and empowerment.
• Function as the tech lead for various features and initiatives on the team.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for services owned by team by following secure development practices.

Skills Experience:

• 5 to 8 years experience in a relevant software development role
• Excellent object-oriented design programming skills, including the application of design patterns and avoidance of anti-patterns.
• Strong Cloud platform skills:
• AWS Lambda, Terraform, SNS, SQS, RDS, Kinesis, DynamoDB etc.
• Experience building large-scale, enterprise applications with ReactJS/AngularJS.
• Proficient with front-end technologies, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript preferred.
• Experience working in a collaborative team of application developers and source code repositories.
• Deep knowledge of more than one programming language like Node.js/Java.
• Demonstrable knowledge of AWS and Data Platform experience: Lambda, Dynamodb, RDS, S3, Kinesis, Snowflake.
• Demonstrated ability to follow through with all tasks, promises and commitments.
• Ability to communicate and work effectively within priorities.
• Ability to advocate ideas and to objectively participate in design critiques.
• Ability to work under tight timelines in a fast-paced environment.
• Advanced understanding of software design concepts.
• Understanding software development methodologies and principles.
• Ability to solve large scale complex problems.
• Ability to architect, design, implement, and maintain large scale systems.
• Strong technical leadership and mentorship ability.
• Working experience of modern Agile software development methodologies (i.e. Kanban, Scrum, Test Driven Development)