Software Engineer, Data Platform
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Senior Software Engineer
Kasheesh
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $160,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
CloudHerokuPostgresRSpecRubyRuby on Rails
About the role
- design and scale systems
- drive engineering best practices
- help build a product that’s secure, reliable, and user friendly
- architect, implement, and maintain scalable features and services across our platform
- identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, improve performance, and strengthen security
- contribute to and improve our CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and monitoring systems
- partner and lead discussions with Product, Design, and business stakeholders
- participate in on-call rotations, lead postmortems, and improve system observability and resilience
- coach junior and mid-level engineers, give constructive feedback
- shape technical strategy, contribute to architectural discussions
Requirements
- At least six years' experience as a software engineer, ideally in a startup environment.
- Ability to build and scale production systems in a fast-paced environment.
- Expertise in Ruby on Rails, RSpec, and relational database design (PostgreSQL).
- Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and Heroku or cloud-based deployment.
- Expertise working across the stack, from server-side logic and APIs to frontend components and layouts.
- Strong debugging, performance tuning, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to lead initiatives proactively.
- Commitment to becoming the best version of yourself and encouraging the same in others.
- Ability to balance speed with thoughtful code architecture, design and scalability.
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision insurance plans
- unlimited vacation
- 401(k) match
- monthly wellness stipend
- basic life insurance
- weekly lunches in our NYC office
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Ruby on RailsRSpecPostgreSQLCI/CD pipelinesautomated testingcloud-based deploymentserver-side logicAPIsfrontend componentsperformance tuning
Soft skills
communication skillsleadershipcoachingproblem-solvingconstructive feedbackproactive initiativecommitment to self-improvementcollaborationtechnical strategysystem observability
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