Senior Software Engineer

Parus Holdings Inc., a technology company based in Austin, TX, is seeking a passionate Senior Level Web Developer to join their team. The role involves leading critical software projects, participating in product definition, and mentoring team members while ensuring adherence to best coding practices.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Product Design and lead the design and implementation for the two Webley product lines
• Own the Product Development cycle from design through implementation to support
• Make design decisions on how to best augment the our software architecture
• Create/Update design documentation which clearly illustrates the software architecture to other team members
• Provide mentorship and technical expertise to other team members across a range of applications, systems and/or technologies
• Gain a complete understanding of the various system interdependencies and limitations, then develop, execute, and monitor diagnostic tests for the purposes of correcting mistakes, isolating areas for improvement and general debugging
• Review and augment the development processes for adherence to best coding practices
• Assist Quality Assurance personnel in test case development and testing to ensure best possible test coverage
• Facilitate and lead collaboration efforts about software and systems architecture
• Lead peer design and code reviews
• Lead troubleshooting efforts to identify code and/or system deficiencies which impact system operation and performance
• Keep current with new technologies and tools which impacting software development and find real world applications which facilitate performance and efficiency improvements

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a technical lead
• 5+ years of development experience
• A thorough understanding of Web internals and common Web methodologies and protocols (HTTP 2 and 3, REST, GraphQL, JSON, JavaScript ES6, CSS)
• A thorough understanding of AWS cloud services and serverless technologies
• A thorough understanding of Python and JavaScript ES6
• A thorough understanding of Unix/Linux systems
• High level of proficiency with version control systems and CI/CD pipeline
• High level of proficiency with database application development (MySQL, Sybase)
• Contribution to open source is a plus
• Familiarity with NoSQL based databases, DynamoDB is a plus