We’re looking for humble, but ambitious, razor-sharp Senior Software Engineer who can teach us a thing or two. We promise to return the favor. Like us, you take product development, cloud services research and platform engineering seriously; you’re passionate about technology, product development and Agile engineering processes. We embrace those who see things differently, aren’t afraid to experiment, and who have a healthy disregard for constraints. That’s where you come in. We are currently seeking a Senior Engineer to help engineering management execute on the technical and architectural vision for our innovative and fast paced product ecosystem. Our selection process will emphasize hands on engineering and architectural skills as well as SDLC process skills equally. The ideal candidate must be a master of their domain and be able to contribute as an individual contributor. We are looking for a rare mix of intelligence, integrity, domain knowledge, verbal and written agility, and diplomacy which allows you to rapidly earn the trust of technically astute engineers and product astute product managers.

Requirements

Responsible:

• Responsible for championing micro-service oriented architecture ecosystem strategy as well as the planning and successful execution of said strategy
• Effectively balance architecture and software engineering individual contributor responsibilities
• Assist engineering leadership by providing architectural and technical leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment
• Continually retrospect and drive innovation within the back-end development process to ensure our software engineers execute at the highest possible level
• Assist in hiring, on-boarding and developing engineers
• Assist in managing Tech Debt
• Actively participate in execution of SDLC processes to include sprint pre-planning/planning, retros, demos, architecture and code reviews
• Work closely with the rest of the tech leads, data scientists, senior engineering leadership and product managers to ensure we're building awesome, feature-rich, scalable and secure product lines, products and features
• Work closely with the rest of the tech leads and senior engineering leadership team to ensure we're building highly reusable codebase
• Provide the mentoring and guidance to engineers

Requirements:

• 8 plus years solid experience in open source based technologies, including at least 4 - 5 years in Ruby or RoR cloud based ecosystems
• Some experience as an architect, including at least 1 years in large scale platform environment
• CS degree required or equivalent work experience
• Solid procedural and object oriented Software Engineering fundamentals
• 3 plus years of relevant experience in fast-paced and dynamic Scrum environment
• A proven track record of senior level software engineering accomplishments in a high-capacity, large-scale, internet-based product platform
• Capable of technical deep-dives, yet verbally and cognitively agile enough to hold their own in a strategy discussion with senior technical or product leadership
• Experienced with Agile / Scrum methodologies
• Outstanding communication skills, both written and oral
• Expert understanding of RoR framework

• Solid understanding of AWS services
• Solid experience with containerized applications and serverless functions

• Strong understanding of and experience with testing practices
• Strong automation and CI / CD experience
• Pivotal Tracker or Jira, Docker, CI/CD, GitHub tools experience, some would say you are a master
• If I asked your previous team members about you, they would say you were a great architect and even better contributor. They would also very much welcome an opportunity to work for you once again

Preferred:

• Some experience collaborating with ML/AI teams
• Some experience with React or Angular
• Some experience with native mobile technology
• Some experience in data-driven environments