Staff Software Engineer

About SecurityScorecard

Be part of an exciting and growing Technology team focused on growing an awesome product on Vendor Risk Management through a number of cybersecurity tools that include security monitoring, compliance evidence and automated questionnaires and assessments. Our team emphasis is collaboration and shared responsibilities, you will be hands-on involved in the entire Software Development Life Cycle. Our team is growing and so will you! Check out our tech stack below. 

We’re targeting a Staff Software Engineer who enjoys building commercial products and will play a key role in the delivery of highly reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications. You will drive projects end-to-end, collaborating on product definitions with Product Managers, Developers and UX designers, implementing technical solutions, and ensuring continued success even after deployment through monitoring and access to customer feature requests. You’ll strive for simplicity, while bringing technical insights into how to refine and improve the system, ultimately ensuring performance, stability, and an exceptional end user experience.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and test new features for SecurityScorecard’s VRM platform.
• Maintain and extend existing public facing REST APIs.
• Collaborate closely with global team, including engineers, product managers and UX designers.
• Participate in all stages of the software development life cycle: from design and development, to deployment and maintenance.
• Build a reliable software with comprehensive testing of features and performance tuning to ensure platform stability both in terms of uptime as well as performance.
• Brings distinguished expertise in automation in QA and delivery process/reliability.

Our Stack:

• Python, Flask, Django.
• NodeJS, Typescript, React, Redux + Saga, Jest.
• PostgreSQL.
• Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, AWS, Datadog.

What we’d like to see, technically:

• You consider yourself Full-stack and have appreciation for being involved in both back-end and front-end parts of software development in a solid manner.
• 8+ years of experience on a development team deploying agile methodologies, collaborating with technologists, creatives, and product owners.
• Built large scale projects from scratch, supported its launch and monitored it afterwards for availability and growth.
• Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Typescript, React and Redux.
• Experience with NodeJS, Python and PostgreSQL.
• Experience working with any of the following are all a plus: AWS, Docker, Terraform, Kafka.
• A deep understanding of associated computer science fundamentals: object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• The ability to present the architectural design of a system to project team members and other stakeholders in clear, simple terms.
• Calls for and leads code reviews.
• Uses DRY and YAGNI principles in code design.
• Can document tests based on high-level acceptance criteria.
• Can automate processes as needed.
• Can set up a deployment pipeline.
• Works across the organization to help improve all CD practices and evangelizes standards.
  What we’d like to see on communication and team collaboration:
  

• Experience actively mentoring junior team members.
• A strong appreciation for design and user experience.
• Establishes standards across projects and writes documentation.
• Owns presentations and can write them independently.
• Can estimate project complexity based on early project documentation and conversations.
• Feels comfortable representing their discipline in higher-level project conversations.
• Can provide constructive feedback to leadership on more junior members of their discipline.
• Can clearly articulate technical problems and solutions in written and verbal communication.
• Understands cross-functional issues and is able to effectively communicate with other departments.

Benefits
We offer a competitive salary, stock options, a comprehensive benefits package, including health and dental insurance, unlimited PTO, parental leave, tuition reimbursements, and much more!

SecurityScorecard embraces diversity. We believe that our team is strengthened through hiring and retaining employees with diverse backgrounds, skillsets, ideas, and perspectives. We make hiring decisions based upon merit and do not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.