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Staff Engineer (Backend)

Job Description

Staff Engineers are the anchor technical leaders for a team. They drive the technical vision and the standards of excellence for their team. They develop a long-term technical blueprint for their team and take a pragmatic approach to building towards that in a phased manner. They promote a culture of craftsmanship within their team and take pride in the high quality of their deliverables.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own and develop the long-term technical vision & blueprint for the team.
• Design technical strategy to move from existing monolithic applications to well-architected
  cloud-based microservices.
• Hands-on development from microservices and sub-systems to the entire technical stack.
• Deal with ambiguity and figure things out with minimal guidance.
• Mentor engineers, including senior and junior engineers on their team.
• Improve and uphold standards for engineering and operational excellence.

Skills

• Deep experience building large scale distributed systems utilizing microservices, domain
  based and/or layered cake architectures.
• Knowledge of building services using one or more cloud infrastructures such as GCP/AWS.
• Knowledge of relational/non-relational databases and unstructured storage.
• Deep experience in cloud design patterns for scalability, resiliency, availability, latency,
  responsiveness.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Proficient in coding standards, code reviews, devops and delivering high quality software.
• Deep understanding of modern data architectures and data management.
• Technologies we use: Python, Java, Django, Flask, React, Postgres, Kubernetes, GCP.

Good to have

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• 8+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as Python, Java.
• 6+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design
  patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

Experience

•  10-12 Years