Senior Software Engineer

Role Overview

• Senior Software Engineer FS serves as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills.
• With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements.
• A Senior Software Engineer
• Full Stack impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the implementation of the programs development strategy.
• You may serve as the discipline's primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering processes and practices.
• Demonstrates expertise, accountability, and ownership of their contributions to an application code base.
• Maintains a high-level understanding of adjacent technical areas and ecosystems to effectively coordinate integration with those systems.
• Diagnoses and effectively resolves issues with the systems they own, using incidents to inform educational opportunities and system improvements.
• Actively mentors and assists more junior engineers in the development of their skills.
• Effectively communicates technical issues and developments with team members and clients.
• Participates in technical interviews with new candidates.
• Strong influential skills to propose and evaluate multiple approaches to technical and process problems.
• May serve as a mentor to individuals within the team.
• May lead small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects.
• Presents design documents, system diagrams, etc. to clients, stakeholders, partners, and other engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree and 7+ years of engineering experience
• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in at least one technical area (including but not limited to frontend, backend, or infrastructure engineering)
• Experience using modern, open source software to prototype and deploy backend web applications, including all aspects of server-side processing, data storage, and integration with frontend development
• Web development using open-source web programming languages (e.g., Ruby, Python) and frameworks (e.g., Django, Rails)
• Developing and consuming web-based, RESTful APIs
• Using and working in team environments that use agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Lean)
• Authoring developer-friendly documentation (e.g., API documentation, deployment operations)
• Test-driven development
• Use of version control systems, specifically Git and GitHub
• Quickly researching and learning new programming tools and techniques
• Relational and non-relational database systems
• Scalable search technology (e.g. ElasticSearch, Solr)
• Handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage
• Using and working with open source solutions and community
• Communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience.

Tech Stack

• Django
• ElasticSearch
• Open Source
• Python
• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails

Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service
• Employee Assistance Program