Staff Software Engineer, Platform
Designs and develops scalable back-end architecture for product features using Golang, GraphQL, SQL, and AWS services. Requires 8-12 years experience with server-side apps, APIs, databases, plus expertise in compiled languages and mentoring juniors.
About the job
What you will do
- Focus on back-end architecture; designing, developing and maintaining SmithRx product features using various languages such as Golang, JavaScript/Typescript, Node, GraphQL, and SQL (amongst others), while leveraging full CI and CD to iterate quickly
- Collaborate with stakeholders and technical leads to understand functional and technical requirements to produce high-quality, scalable software and services
- Provide scope and risk estimates for system and feature builds by building technical design documentation
- Continually apply software development best practices, design patterns, testing, automation, tools and technologies.
- Leverage AWS technologies, like Lambda and Fargate, to handle various types of jobs and batch processing
- Troubleshoot production issues by performing triages for issues that arise, assessing the impact, creating and executing a plan for short-term and long-term mitigation, and performing root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues.
- Coach/mentor junior team members in their assigned engineering projects by reviewing and providing feedback on code developed, and performing design and code reviews
- Work with senior leadership to turn technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter
- Be the cornerstone of a collaborative learning culture through mentorship, code reviews, the exploration of new technologies, and other innovations
What you will bring to SmithRx
- BS or advanced degree in computer science or applicable experience
- 8-12 years of software development experience working on server-side applications, specifically around API servers, third party integrations and data processing
- Experience at a high-growth startup a plus
- Expertise in a compiled language such as Go, Java or Kotlin is required
- Proficiency with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including schema design, SQL tuning, and database monitoring is required
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing scalable APIs; a solid understanding of design patterns, database design, and testing best practices.
- Working knowledge of GraphQL APIs, CI/CD pipeline, AWS platform, Docker, and Kubernetes a plus
- Positivity; non-dogmatic, team-first attitude
- Flexibility; someone who is responsive and comfortable with ambiguity
- Highly disciplined approach to software design and development and ability to work on features independently (accurately forecast delivery milestones and work with stakeholders to ensure that expectations are met)
Skills
Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, SQL, Postgres, AWS, AWS Lambda, Fargate, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Java, Kotlin
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