Senior Software Engineer

First American is a company that values its people and has been recognized as a top workplace. They are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to lead projects and develop innovative technology solutions that enhance their Title & Settlement Platform.

Responsibilities:

• Code: You will be an active contributor to the codebase, designing, developing, testing, and deploying code supporting our most complex functional areas. You will architect and implement modern world-class services that are scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant
• Collaborate/Partner: Collaborate with product management, solution architects, and other cross-functional teams to iteratively design, develop, and validate outcome-driven technology solutions
• Operational Excellence: Implement high quality, secure, and observable solutions.  Be an active member of the team, contributing to reviews of designs, code, artifacts and metrics
• Continuous Improvement: Join a team determined to achieve ambitious goals, provide regular feedback, and drive continuous improvement

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Experience driving engineering best practices for high-functioning software engineering teams through effective use of tools and automation
• Passion and expertise for building large-scale, back-end services and APIs, using modern architectures (Macro / Mini / Micro Services)
• A strong understanding of software engineering principles and modern infrastructure operations
• Ability to build robust, high-scale, generic and reusable solutions
• Ability to mentor and influence software engineers to share knowledge and improve quality
• Ability to unblock yourself and help accelerate the team in achieving their goals
• Familiarity with deployment and observability strategies that support continuous delivery and high availability in a cloud-native environment
• An outcome-oriented approach using metrics and data to understand development productivity metrics (e.g., code churn, commit size, test coverage, etc.) that inform areas for continuous improvement
• C# (.NET Core, .NET Framework), TypeScript & React / Node.js or Golang
• Containerized development (Docker)
• Kubernetes
• Relational (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB) databases
• Automated software testing (unit, integration, contract)
• Infrastructure automation tooling such as Terraform and Ansible
• AWS Cloud Services: API Gateway, EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, ECR, EC2 Container Service, S3, Elastic File System, Lambda, RDS, Application Load Balancer, Step functions, SQS, Kinesis, SNS, EventHub, ElastiCache, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, Transit Gateways
• Working within a highly regulated industry such as Financial Services or Healthcare
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with strong relationship, collaborative, and organizational skills