Senior Software Engineer, DIY Design Relevance - East Coast US Remote

Vista is a design and marketing partner to millions of small businesses around the world. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Design Relevance team, you will collaborate with a team to maintain and extend search APIs, add new features, and improve the relevancy of designs returned by search.

Responsibilities:

• Work in a team to maintain and extend our search APIs, including collaborating with our dedicated search domain experts, enabling customers to find the designs that best fit their needs
• Add new features to our internal configuration tools used by internal users across Vista
• Help triage issues and debug production code
• Review and provide feedback on code written by other developers
• Work with our team to help translate front-end and API user requirements into new features
• Build out automation to deploy and test our code
• Collaborate with external teams and with other developers, including pair programming, design sessions, and documentation
• Recent projects our team has worked on include:
• Multi-domain initiative to extend our templates to make them scalable and responsive to user preferences
• Re-architecting our search backend to improve relevancy and include semantic search capabilities
• Building design grouping logic to help customers explore more templates while browsing

Requirements:

• Excellent coding skills in at least one object-oriented or functional programming language (C#, Java, TypeScript, Python or other similar languages)
• Experience with database design, querying, and optimization, both relational and NoSQL
• Experience with cloud platforms including storage and scalable micro-services
• A history of working in large code bases, including refactoring
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholder and to create technical documentation targeted at internal audiences
• Experience in API design and working with micro-services
• Computer Science, related Engineering degree, or relevant work experience
• Familiar with C# and modern .NET
• Familiar with PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Familiarity with AWS, CDK, and GitLab
• Familiar with event-based architecture
• Familiar with Test Driven Design
• Familiar with monitoring tools such as New Relic