Staff Engineer

PopCandi is recruiting for an unnamed client, a technology company serving the ticketing and events industry. The Staff Engineer will provide technical leadership and hands-on development, guide engineers, and help design scalable systems and advance the client’s technical strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership in designing and implementing high-impact, scalable, and reliable systems
• Mentor and guide engineers through code reviews, best practices sharing, and promoting technical excellence
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and architect solutions that meet business requirements and industry best practices
• Drive innovation in system architecture and design for long-term scalability and maintainability
• Lead by example through hands-on coding and development, contributing to critical projects and demonstrating best coding practices
• Work on challenging technical problems, providing efficient, elegant, and maintainable solutions
• Contribute to the development and execution of the technical strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business goals and objectives
• Assess and advocate for the incorporation of emerging technologies when appropriate
• Foster a collaborative and innovative environment within the engineering team
• Act as a point of escalation for technical issues, providing guidance in troubleshooting and resolving complex problems
• Conduct knowledge-sharing sessions, workshops, and training to disseminate expertise and best practices across the engineering team

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Azure PaaS experience required (Azure Service Bus, Queues, App Services, App Insights, API Management)
• Experience with C# .NET 6.0 - 8.0 is required
• some level of experience with a JavaScript framework is required
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the US for any employer
• Strong preference for experience with complete or near-complete ownership/accountability for a software stack, including growing a system from inception to production and post-production support
• Experience mentoring and/or managing technical teams in the past is desired
• T-SQL experience, including query tuning and extensive database schema design, is desired
• Angular 15+ experience is preferred