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CheckrCheckrSan Francisco, CA

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Leads organization-wide technical architecture initiatives, including international expansion and enterprise systems, with hands-on coding in high-risk areas. Requires 15+ years engineering experience, 5+ in leadership, expertise in Ruby/Go/Python, microservices, and data pipelines.

257k – 302k
Hybrid15+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

What you'll do

  • Proactively identify the top opportunities for impact for the engineering organization
  • Own direction and lead execution of organization-wide technical efforts
  • Hands-on contribution in areas with a high degree of business risk
  • Break down very complex projects into simple systems that can be effectively built and maintained by less experienced engineers
  • Create documents to set standards of architectural best practices that the broader engineering organization consumes
  • Upskill the Staff Engineers in the company to systematically raise the bar for quality and scale
  • Inform buy vs build decisions, supporting broad business strategy
  • Deeply understand customer, partner, and product team needs, and represent your teams in technical conversations with company leadership

What you bring

  • Degree in computer science or related field (Bachelor's or Master's)
  • 2+ years leading architecture projects across an organization
  • 5+ years of experience in a leadership role
  • 15+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • Experience developing in Ruby, GoLang, and Python
  • Solid understanding of cloud technologies and all layers of backend stacks
  • Deep understanding of microservices design and asynchronous queueing models
  • Experience designing and maintaining real-time & batch processing data pipelines serving up billions of data points
  • Experience mentoring engineering and product teams in domain-driven design
  • Experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams
  • Strong collaboration, communication, and project management skills
  • A strong sense of ownership
  • A great desire to learn, collaborate, improve, and innovate

Skills

RubyGoPythonCloud TechnologiesMicroservicesAsynchronous QueueingData PipelinesDomain-Driven Design

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