
Senior Engineer – Foundations
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full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $120,000 - $127,500 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Design and implement robust, scalable software solutions while maintaining 100% adherence to sanctioned CI/CD templates and meeting defined SLAs. Participates in and leads response to on-call incidents.
- Actively drive the use of standardized tools and technologies to reduce development friction and improve "Time to First Commit". Contributes to the evolution of the Golden path and Engineering standards.
- Establish faster feedback loops and drive systematic improvements to development practices to reduce "Blocked Time" per ticket.
- Ensure all technical work aligns with the long-term Architectural Vision and product outcomes rather than just output. Adapts to priority shifts and changing Product direction. Strong focus on measurable value creation via Engineering efforts.
- Provide technical guidance to junior engineers, championing best practices through "Lightning Talks" and detailed documentation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering or operations experience.
- 2+ years of experience in a senior role.
- Building, operating, troubleshooting and optimizing production systems under load.
- Delivered software using Python and JavaScript with frameworks.
- Interface with relational databases using SQL.
- Using Git and conducting code reviews within a sprint SDLC.
- Familiarity with Build systems, DevOps and CI/CD procedures.
- Familiarity with cloud services.
- Thorough understanding of HTTP APIs.
- Possess advanced knowledge in your specialization to be able to guide and mentor team members.
- Experience designing and leading a software project from requirements to delivery with no guidance.
- Experience independently researching and leading technical discussions with peers.
- Thoroughly understands the business vision, mission, and strategy and how their code supports and affects business outcomes.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from key stakeholders and decision makers.
- Working knowledge of taking a large complex project, breaking it down into sub-tasks, and completing those tasks as required.
- Shows initiative and seeks evidence in data to support ideas.
- Use of containerization and orchestration technologies, Docker and Kubernetes.
- Node.js, FastAPI, React, GraphQL, Kafka, Flask, Redis, Memcached
- AWS, DataDog, Cloudflare Workers, WP Engine
- Microservices, distributed/edge systems and event driven architectures.
- ADA / WCAG Compliance
Benefits
- Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program
- 401(k) with employer match
- 100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents
- 4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure
- 18 weeks paid leave for birth moms
- 8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption
- Monthly wellness allowance
- Annual professional and personal development allowance
- Work from home office set-up and expense allowances
- Flexible work location opportunities
- Employer matching toward charitable contributions
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonJavaScriptSQLGitDockerKubernetesNode.jsFastAPIReactGraphQL
Soft Skills
technical guidancementoringinitiativeeffective presentationproblem-solvingcommunicationleadershipadaptabilitycollaborationresearch