Description
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Organizations team. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help drive architectural vision and strategy on the team to design and deliver powerful new enterprise functionality for our SaaS customers. You will identify and implement strategic technical improvements to our codebase and architecture, orchestrate and lead major technical projects, and mentor and coach less experienced engineers on sound engineering practices and technical leadership.
You will work closely with the Product Manager and Product Designer to define the look, feel, and functionality of new features and review customer feedback. You will also serve as a subject matter expert on all building scalable, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems.
To be successful in this role, you will need to have solid architectural and security knowledge, backed by experience in designing, implementing, and evolving complex distributed systems. You will also need to have worked on projects that required close collaboration with external teams and have experience making those a success.
You will be a good mentor and communicator, able to explain complex concepts simply in person or in a document. You will know that while an engineer can write code, teams collaborate to ship successful products.
You will have solid previous experience with Node.js (JavaScript or Typescript) to build scalable backend services and creating and maintaining public and internal APIs. You will also have built frontend and full-stack apps and know what approach to use when.
You will have a good understanding of SQL databases and know how to debug and optimize table and query structure for performance under load. You will also have experience with Docker and cloud environments (AWS and Azure preferred).
Bonus points for experience with Kubernetes, knowledge of authentication protocols such as OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, understanding of event-driven architectures, especially Apache Kafka, understanding and experience of DevOps culture, and knowledge of security engineering and application security.