Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Responsibilities

• Design, implement or improve features in a variety of backend systems including REST APIs, microservices, data ingestion and processing systems, and distributed task/job processing systems
• Write and maintain scalable, performant and secure code that can be shared across platforms
• Meaningfully contribute to the product and core backend systems by suggesting and executing improvements
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, processes and security
• Practice test-driven development
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Participate in on-call rotations, as needed, to ensure prompt and effective resolution of critical technical issues
• Utilize OWASP top 10 techniques to secure code from vulnerabilities
• Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data maintenance handling
• Adhere to policies, guidelines and procedures pertaining to the protection of information assets
• Report actual or suspected security and/or policy violations/breaches to an appropriate authority

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field
• 8+ years of experience building web applications
• Successfully implemented highly-available distributed systems/microservices
• Delivered scalable backend APIs
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action

Preferred Requirements

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
• Hands on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages