Senior Software Engineer, Platform & Developer Experience
Builds platform and developer-experience tools, shared architecture, deployment systems, and performance improvements that help engineering teams ship faster and more reliably. Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, deep Node.js/TypeScript expertise, and hands-on Kubernetes, ArgoCD, PostgreSQL, and Kafka experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Interview engineering teams to identify workflow pain points and prioritize tools or architectural improvements.
- Design and implement reusable patterns with Nest.js, React.js, and TypeScript.
- Optimize PostgreSQL queries and Kafka producer/consumer patterns for performance and reliability.
- Own and evolve Kubernetes and ArgoCD configurations for automated, safe deployments.
- Lead cross-team technical challenges involving shared libraries and service-to-service communication.
- Refactor complex codebases into maintainable, testable modules.
- Mentor and coach engineers across the organization.
- Research, prototype, and roll out internal tools, libraries, and frameworks for CI/CD, local development, and observability.
- Introduce architectural changes and support adoption through documentation, workshops, and one-on-one guidance.
- Lead code reviews and communicate technical trade-offs across functions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with a record of providing technical direction.
- Experience in Platform, Infrastructure, or Developer Experience teams.
- Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript, including scaling Nest.js backends and React.js frontends.
- Hands-on experience managing containerized workloads with Kubernetes and ArgoCD.
- Strong PostgreSQL proficiency, including query optimization and schema design.
- Strong Kafka proficiency and event-driven architecture experience.
- Experience replacing complex legacy code with scalable, maintainable architecture.
- Ability to translate ambiguous technical problems into prioritized roadmaps.
- Demonstrated ability to build trust and psychological safety while raising engineering quality.
Nice-to-haves
- AWS experience with MSK, RDS, EKS, S3, and Lambda.
- Redshift schema design, ETL pipeline management, and query optimization.
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
- Redis and distributed caching strategies.
- Python, Celery, and SQLAlchemy.
- Familiarity with serverless computing.
Compensation & Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision health care plan.
- Retirement plan including 401(k) and IRA.
- Life insurance.
- Flexible vacation.
- Work from home.
- Free food and snacks in the office.
- Wellness resources.
- Remote hires must travel to Orlando, Florida at least twice per year for town halls and team collaboration, in addition to orientation in Orlando, Florida.
Skills
Node.js, TypeScript, Nest.Js, React, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Redshift, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Datadog, AWS, Terraform, Python, Celery
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