Staff Software Engineer

• Participate in the entire software development life cycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Work closely with product managers, project managers, and other stakeholders to define requirements and deliver high-quality software applications that meet business needs.
• Ensure the software applications are scalable, reliable, and secure on the AWS platform, including following best practices and coding standards.
• Develop and maintain a strong understanding of the technical architecture and design of the software applications, ensuring they are optimized for the AWS platform.
• Continuously learn and adopt new services, tools, and methodologies to improve the software development process and increase efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including other developers, architects, and DevOps engineers, to ensure the software applications are integrated with other systems and services.
• Develop and implement strategies for scaling and optimizing AWS applications for performance and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security and compliance requirements are met for the software applications on the AWS platform.
• Monitor and troubleshoot application performance and ensure issues are resolved in a timely and effective manner.
• Mentor new and developing engineers on the team
• Driving the technical direction of our products to help us create business value in new ways
• Continually monitor system stability and performance and suggest improvements where necessary
• Enhance our practices and procedures to reduce redundancies, streamline development, and make the team more efficient
• Create unit and integration tests to validate the development work automatically
• Share your knowledge with the rest of the engineering team to help grow and mentor the team

What you need to bring to the table:

• Must-haves:
• Bachelor s degree in a computer-related field or work experience equivalent
• 10+ years of experience developing applications
• Consistent track record of being a leader and key contributor on multiple projects.
• Proven hands-on design and implementation experience in high-volume, high- performance real-time systems.
• Strong experience developing and designing using the NodeJs or C#
• Experience working with JavaScript / ReactJs or any frontend technology
• Good Exposure to Microservices, API gateway
• Experience developing and designing REST and/or SOAP APIs
• Good understanding of containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong experience with relational database and writing and optimizing queries (preferably Postgres / MySQL)
• Understanding of Ruby / PHP / C# is a plus
• Strong grasp of responsive web design, HTML, and CSS
• Strong exposure to DevOps and understanding of CI/CD
• Passion for mentoring engineers to produce elegant, maintainable code
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work in a team environment and collaborate effectively with other stakeholders.
• Strong experience with Agile software development

Other information on our stack:

• Microservices architecture exposing REST APIs deployed using Docker on AWS
• Backend services are written in NextJS on Node.js
• Amazon Web Services: EC2, S3, SNS, SQS, Lambdas, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Redshift