Staff Software Engineer - Back End

What You’ll Do

• Technical Leadership: Drive key technical initiatives and contribute to company objectives by taking ownership of major and complex topics within our product. Lead architecture, development and optimization of high-performance SaaS application. 
• Engineering and Development: Lead the technical design and delivery of robust, reliable and performant back-end components and APIs using Python, Scala and/or Go, and push our microservices architecture forward.
• Work closely with agile, cross-functional teams, including other engineers, product managers and designers, and DevOps. Provide focused support to different units, driving improvements across our entire application. 
• Mentorship and Collaboration: Serve as a thought partner to both engineering and product leadership. Mentor team members through pair programming, code reviews, and ad-hoc assistance. Promote a culture of quality, observability and operational excellence.
• Strategic Contributions: Play a central role in strategic planning, including system architecture and modularization, working closely with Senior Leadership. Participate in tech circles and knowledge-sharing sessions to stay on top of and implement the latest industry practices.
• Incident Management: Proactively identify and implement strategies to reduce incident impact and detection time, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of our SaaS applications.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Expertise in Back End Development: At least 10 years of professional experience with a solid foundation in back-end development, building, maintaining and supporting high traffic web backends. Proficiency in component-based architectures using Python, Go or Scala for the back-end and Postgres, S3 for the databases.
• Deep knowledge and experience in cloud-native architectures, microservices architecture, performance optimization, automated testing, and continuous delivery are crucial.
• Leadership and Vision: Demonstrated ability to lead engineering projects and make critical decisions. Ability to think about the big picture, inspire others through a co-created technical vision, and ensure best practices in software engineering.
• Collaborative Spirit: Excellent communication skills and accustomed to working cross-functionally in an agile, mid-sized development environment. You should value a respectful, transparent, and collaborative work culture.
• Innovative Mindset: Keen interest in staying on top of the latest developments in back end technologies and a desire to actively share learnings and innovations within the organization.

Nice To Have

• Previous experience using Node.js is a plus