Senior Software Engineer, Workforce Payments
Senior Software Engineer building the core computation layer for payroll, money movement, and tax products. Own large projects, mentor engineers, and improve reliability of high-volume financial systems.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Independently own large-scoped projects from initial discovery through launch with a focus on outcomes and customer impact
- Collaborate with a cross functional team to find solutions to customer challenges
- Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our existing systems
- Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing and mentorship
- Add capabilities to our high-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure
- Enhance our testing, monitoring and continuous deployment infrastructure
- Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of professional hands-on experience
- Mastery of modern server side languages (Golang is a plus but not required)
- Proficiency with SQL
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure management, preferably AWS
- Experience supporting and mentoring other engineers and acting as a “force multiplier”
- Experience working closely with designers and product managers
Technologies Used
Golang, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Git, Memcache, Redis, ElasticSearch, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, DataDog
Skills
Go, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, SQL, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
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