
Senior Software Engineer – Platform
Owlet Baby Care
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- - You’ll design, build, and maintain APIs and services for internal and customer-facing applications
- - Champion high-quality code with corresponding test coverage
- - Participate in regular code reviews and engage in constructive discussions
- - Propose and implement performance optimizations with careful and clever concern for reliability and scalability
- - Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to rapidly troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues
- - Write documentation with regard for the peer who next touches your code
- - Deliver resilient, robust, and durable solutions, contributing to the ongoing improvement of our systems
- - Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure stellar uptime for our customers
- - Create and maintain documentation of all architecture design and analysis work
Requirements
- REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:
- - You have 5+ years of software engineering experience
- - Strong proficiency in Python programming language for maintaining Python servers and multi-threaded subscribers
- - Experience maintaining production high-availability services with a distributed architecture
- - Experience with major cloud providers like AWS and GCP
- - Experience with monitoring services and observability tools like Datadog, NewRelic, Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent
- - The ability to explain your ideas clearly, give and receive feedback, and work well with team members
- - The ability to bring structure to ambiguous requirements and to rapidly iterate from prototype to production-grade implementation
- - The finesse to produce code that is readable, testable, and understandable years later
- - Pride in the craft of software development, your unique views, and original ideas**
- BONUS SKILLS:
- - You have experience developing and deploying with Kubernetes
- - Exposure to Google Cloud Platform
- - Familiar with IoT, MQTT, Node.js, React
- - Experience with load testing and performance tuning
- - Ability to improve CICD pipelines, implement IaC best practices, and be comfortable with Bash
Benefits
- Owlet offers a comprehensive benefits package that supports your health, financial well-being, and work-life balance:
- - **Health & Wellness**: Multiple medical plan options (PPO and High-Deductible with HSA), plus dental, vision, life, and disability coverage. Wellness resources include mental health support, EAP access, and fitness incentives.
- - **Financial Benefits**: A competitive 401(k) plan with company match, employee stock purchase program, and potential equity grants.
- - **Work-Life Balance**: Generous flexible PTO policy, including Flex Fridays, paid parental leave (up to 14 weeks), and remote/hybrid work options.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonAPI designmulti-threadinghigh-availability servicesdistributed architectureKubernetesload testingperformance tuningCICDInfrastructure as Code (IaC)
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcommunicationfeedbackteam collaborationstructuring ambiguous requirementsiterative developmentcode readabilitypride in craftsmanship