Senior Software Engineer

Primary Duties of the Role:

• Practices Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavioral Driven Development (BDD).
• Writes high quality code and participates in code reviews and advocates for best practices of software development.
• Understands complexity of monolith applications and the ability to decompose monolith application to manageable microservices.
• Collaborates very well with cross functional teams and Senior Staff and Principal engineers.
• Deliver high quality technical solutions with strong delivery mindset.
• Takes ownership of technical solutions and works with teams in driving decision making
• Develops software product features with security first mindset.
• Be able to look into weeds and troubleshoot production issues.
• Mentors junior engineers on the team and across the organization.
• Interested in learning new technologies and contributing to the engineering standards and implementing best practices.
• Participates in team’s On Call rotation practices. 
• Experience with implementing monitoring and alerting for the applications.

Skills and Experience Necessary for the Role:

• 5+ years of experience in working on backend technologies.
• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years of experience building highly scalable backend systems for high performance and low latency.
• Strong understanding and experience developing microservices. 
• Experience with working on cloud native technologies.
• Experience with working in Agile environments and experience working in agile methodologies like Scrum is a plus.
• 3+ years of experience developing Restful APIs.
• Proficiency in backend programming languages like Java, Kotlin, …
• Experience with scripting languages like Bash.
• Knowledge of best practices of software development and experience with implementing design patterns and strong understanding of SOLID principles.
• Very good hands on experience working on relational and no-sql databases.
• Experience with developing security best practices to protect data and ensuring compliance with security standards and regulations.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience working with any of the public cloud providers. Experience with AWS tech stack or AWS certification is a plus.
• Excellent problem solving skills and out-of-box thinking.
• Ability to work in a team and excellent communication skills. Experience working with remote teams is a plus. 
• Ability to collaborate with Principal and staff engineers in designing systems.
• Excellent. 
• 2+ years of experience working on Cloud DevOps tasks. 
• Hands-on experience working on IAC tools like CloudFormation or Terraform is a plus.
• 3+ years of experience utilizing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or equivalent. Experience with working on Github Actions is a plus.
• Strong customer orientation and helps internal teams in resolving integration issues.