Sr. Software Engineer I

Summary:

A role for a journeyman software engineer with deep experience in modern technologies and delivery methodologies. Delivers a great deal of working software to Production and provides technical leadership.

• Independently work on concurrent engineering efforts
• Design software 
• Participate as requested with staff engineers in feature design
• Consider functional and non-functional considerations to design performant, scalable, and reliable software
• Create a plan for your work by gathering information from your squad, the broader R&D organization, and online research
• Inform your development by understanding the flow of data, the established patterns, and the functional needs 
• Estimate effort at the feature level
• Develop software that meets our internal standards of quality
• Make daily code contributions in small, manageable chunks, with continuous integration in mind
• Fix major issues, defects and vulnerabilities in existing codebases
• Create and update unit tests to ensure proper coverage of your contributions to the code base and maintain the coverage standard
• Follow our established workflow processes for software delivery
• Abide by the standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale Web platform
• Commit tickets with no guidance
• Review other engineers’ pull requests
• Determine and add monitors and alerts to make sure that services are healthy in Production
• Enhance the standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web platform. Advocate for these standards in code reviews
• Diagnose and fix performance and optimization problems in legacy code
• Suggest improvements to the workflow processes for software delivery
• Collaborate with engineers and R&D team members outside of your squad
• Teach and provide guidance to others in your area of expertise
• Participate in resolving, and sometimes lead the resolution of, after-hours Production incidents
• Demonstrate your project work and product contributions

Qualifications: 

• 4+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience building cloud-native software 
• Experience with a technology stack and architecture similar to Greenlight Guru’s
• Experience with REST, RPC, and GraphQL APIs
• Ability to create unit and integration test suites
• Experience with continuous integration pipelines and automation
• Strong communication skills - writing, speaking, and listening
• Proven collaborator with very strong people skills
• Demonstrated ability to use data to measure and explore how to evolve our technology
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Intellectual curiosity about the real-world usage of your programming

Benefits you’ll enjoy:

• Supportive teammates and co-workers who care deeply about our mission
• Flexible Paid Time Off policy and working hours
• Remote-first culture
• Home Office stipend upon hire
• Multiple Health insurance options (vision, medical, dental)
• 401k (with company match) 
• Equity Program Eligibility (based on role and/or tenure)
• Three months of paid maternity leave
• Disability insurance

This role can be located within the United States or Canada. The base salary range for this role is $105,000 - $140,000, though actual base salary is determined by factors such as, but not limited to, experience, education, skills, and geographic location.  Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation and equity.