Acts as a project or system leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers on the project or within the system
Determines the technical tasks that other engineers will follow
Proactively improves existing structures & processes
Collaborates with management to set/improve standards for engineering rigor
Leads engineering efforts and team level processes
Supports end-to-end ownership of design, implementation and operational excellence of software components
Provides technical leadership for a small team with minimum guidance from management or senior teammates
Takes ownership of quality of design and implementation of software components
Owns the performance and availability of the services as well as participate in on call rotations and provide support during incidences.

5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
8+ years’ experience with Python or equivalent high-level programming language
Advanced skills with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores, caching solutions (e.g. Redis, ElastiCache, Hazelcast) and messaging/queuing protocols/systems such as SQS/Kafka/RabbitMQ/Pulsar
Ability to lead projects and mentor all levels of engineering staff, along with managing relationships with Product, Engineering Operations and non-technical business and support teams
Expert with distributed services and backend systems
Expertise with building services on public cloud – preferably AWS or GCP, Azure
Experience in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform
Experience working with fault-tolerant and scalable distributed services and systems.

Staff Software Engineer

Key skills