
Staff Software Engineer – Repayments International Engineering
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full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇪🇸 Spain
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💰 €101,000 - €131,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSDistributed SystemsKotlinKubernetesMySQLPythonSpark
About the role
- Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale.
- Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle.
- Act as a force-multiplier for your team through technical solutions.
- Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability.
- Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team.
- Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance.
- Participate in on-call rotation as a requirement.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
- Extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
- Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
Benefits
- 100% subsidized medical coverage
- Dental and vision for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
- Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
- Learning & Development programs
- Parental benefit
- Employee Resource & Community Groups
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
PythonKotlinAWSMySQLSparkKubernetesbackend systemsdistributed systemstechnical execution plansystem components
Soft skills
collaborationownershipfeedbackguidancecommunicationteam developmentquality culturetechnical strategyforce-multiplieron-call rotation