Senior Staff Engineer – Java, Spring Boot, AWS

Role Overview

• Partners with software engineering, product, and architecture to shape engineering approaches, share knowledge and experience
• Own the technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems
• Responsible for department-wide design, patterns and code approaches
• Reviews and validates effectiveness of code output from multiple teams
• Accountable for resolving technical conflict within and between multiple teams
• Drive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping and implementation in support of both product needs as well as overall technology strategy
• Represent engineering in cross-functional team sessions and able to present sound and thoughtful arguments to persuade others
• Adapts to the situation and can draw from a range of strategies to influence people in a way that results in agreement or behavior change
• Lead a broad functional area and direct efforts through the functional team members along with team’s overall planning
• Collaborate and partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize, build new features and create product descriptions
• Actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems
• Assist support and operations teams in identifying and quickly resolving production issues
• Develop and implement tests for ensuring the quality, performance, and scalability of our application
• Develop and mentor other engineers
• May serve as a technical leader for cross-functional projects
• Actively seeks out ways to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Supporting the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data

Requirements

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field
• Twelve or more years of relevant related experience
• Nine or more years of experience in the development of distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, micro services
• Hands-on Docker experience
• Two or more years of experience in the development of front-end solutions
• Hands-on familiarity with modern frameworks (Angular/React)
• Eight or more years of work experience with Java/Spring
• Proficiency in Maven/Gradle
• Demonstrated experience in delivering business-critical systems to the market
• Ability to influence and work in a collaborative team environment across multiple departments
• Experience designing/developing scalable systems
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging frameworks (Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc)
• Working experience with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, etc)
• Knowledge of mature engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, secure coding, etc)
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN etc) and DevOps practices
• Background and drug screen

Tech Stack

• Angular
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Docker
• Google Cloud Platform
• Gradle
• Java
• Kafka
• Maven
• RabbitMQ
• React
• SDLC
• Spring

Benefits

• Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility
• Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work