Senior Software Engineer II
Leads multi-component projects, owns architecture and testing strategies, acts as technical leader and mentor, drives reliability improvements, and handles production incidents for backend systems.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead design and implementation of multi-service features and systems.
- Define and enforce testing strategies across the stack.
- Act as incident commander for medium-severity production incidents.
- Author postmortems and drive systemic fixes.
- Serve as technical lead for projects, aligning cross-functional partners.
- Mentor and sponsor engineers across teams.
- Deliver initiatives that improve predictability, throughput, and system resilience.
Prerequisites
- Expert in a primary language, competent in two or more others.
- Advanced proficiency with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
- Strong experience designing APIs and distributed systems.
- Mastery of testing best practices and quality standards.
- 7+ years of professional software development experience.
- Proven ability to lead technical projects and mentor engineers.
Skills
APIs, Distributed Systems, Cloud Platforms, CI/CD, Infrastructure As Code, Testing, JavaScript, Python, Go, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker
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