Senior Software Engineer - VDR

SRS Acquiom is a company that provides technology and services to facilitate complex M&A and loan agency transactions. The Senior Software Engineer role involves designing and developing complex systems, mentoring teammates, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, integrating AI tools, and leading technical projects to improve software development practices and drive technical strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Deep understanding of complex systems. Can optimize for specific needs, including performance, resilience, observability, testability, and more
• Develops complex, high-quality features. Mentors teammates to improve software development practices
• Designs complex, large-scale systems. Considers scalability and fault tolerance
• Can write, debug, and maintain all types of automated tests. Advocates for testing strategy
• Implements and optimizes CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation
• Integrates and optimizes AI tools into the development process, establishing best practices and mentoring others on effective AI usage
• Communicates effectively with technical and non-technical audiences
• Mentors and guides team members, facilitates discussions, exemplifies empathy, openness and adaptability
• Bridges gaps between teams, drives cross-team initiatives, and resolves complex dependencies
• Leads interview sessions, creates documentation to help new hires ramp up
• Actively mentors and guides Engineering teammates
• Influences the team's technical direction
• Develops and champions the team's technical strategy. Drives technical culture within the team and department
• Identifies, evaluates and experiments with new technologies that could benefit the team
• Leads small to medium-sized projects. Anticipates change and adapts effectively
• Drives continuous improvement within the team. Seeks to reduce intrinsic and extraneous cognitive load
• Leads process and practice improvement on the team
• Conducts high quality code reviews and identifies areas for improvement
• Creates clear and concise technical documentation for code, systems, and processes
• Identifies edge cases, asks insightful questions, and can explain business use cases to others
• Identifies solutions that balance technical and business needs. Can explain how technical decisions affect business outcomes
• Effectively synthesizes requirements, team goals and organizational context to analyze, inform and make important decisions. Anticipates future challenges and plans for them
• Leads technical projects, takes ownership of critical components, systems and practices

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a full stack engineer
• 3+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails
• Expertise creating robust CI/CD pipelines
• Expertise with modern cloud native development (Docker, Kubernetes, Knative)
• Experience leading collaborative software design sessions
• Experience leading continuous improvement of Engineering practices
• Eagerness and willingness to learn new technologies
• Expertise with version control systems
• Expertise with RESTful web services
• Strong understanding of SOLID principals, design patterns
• Expertise using database technologies and patterns
• Acts as part of a team
• Self-motivated
• Strong communicator
• Collaborative
• Drives change and improvement
• Adaptable/Flexible