Senior Software Engineer, Product Foundations

What You Will Work On

• Independently own large-scoped projects from initial discovery through launch with a focus on outcomes and customer impact
• Collaborate with a cross functional team to find solutions to customer challenges
• Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our existing systems
• Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing and mentorship
• Add capabilities to our high-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure
• Enhance our testing, monitoring and continuous deployment infrastructure
• Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure

How You Will Do Your Work

• Good judgment: exercise critical thinking, analyze and assess problems, identify patterns, understand risks, develop mitigation strategies, and take ownership of outcomes
• Resourcefulness: take a can-do approach, optimize what you have in the face of obstacles
• Teamwork and communication: documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism
• Influence and leadership: foster knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking
• Skills and knowledge: actively learn and apply domain knowledge and best practices

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional hands-on experience
• Mastery of modern server side languages, Golang is a plus but not required
• Proficiency with SQL
• Proficiency with cloud infrastructure management, preferably AWS
• Experience supporting and mentoring other engineers and acting as a "force multiplier"
• Experience working closely with designers and product managers

Technologies Used

• Golang, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Git, Memcache, Redis, ElasticSearch, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, DataDog

Compensation and Benefits

• Base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $167,500.00 to $235,000.00 per year
• Actual compensation is based on multiple factors including skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location