Leading a team of engineers and prioritizing high impact goals
Serving to unlock the potential of the development team and partner teams
Building production-quality services and platform features for high volume data processing with a sound, reliable architecture
Monitoring platform services
Writing production-quality, tested code
Ownership of code, responsibility for balancing functionality, efficiency, development time and readability, as well as robustness
Producing technical designs and documentation at varying levels of granularity
Collaborating with our quality assurance and technical operations teams to provide outstanding customer service
Resisting the accrual of “technical debt” in our systems
Staying educated on technical developments and tools necessary for the design and maintenance of complex, distributed platforms

Requirements

BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field
4+ years managing a team of software engineers in a production server environment with high data volume / traffic
8+ years of development experience with Java or Golang
Python experience desired
Production experience leveraging container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes
AWS cloud services and infrastructure experience required
Expertise with Docker images required
Experience developing and managing production backend services
Experience with distributed messaging (Kinesis, Kafka) required
Experience with SQL, noSQL databases (Redis / Elastic Search / DynamoDB) required
Strong error handling habits and experience with monitoring tools required
Experience with continuous integration, test-driven-development, automated unit and integration testing
Hands-on experience developing RESTful web services desired
Experience using GIT versioning tool required
Experience with agile development methodologies and practices (refactoring, TDD, pair programming)
UNIX/Linux background
Experience with various data interchange and representation formats such as JSON, XML, Avro, and Protobuf

Benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaGolangPythonKubernetesAWSDockerKinesisKafkaSQLnoSQL

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingtechnical designdocumentationcustomer serviceerror handlingresponsibilityeducation

Certifications

BS in Computer ScienceBS in Computer Engineering