Principal Engineer

What you will be doing:

• Build systems and APIs that multiple applications utilize by writing code, using commercial or open-source, and leveraging your hands-on AWS expertise.
• Write lots of high quality code, quickly.  You’ll use strong, pragmatic engineering practices to turn ideas into practical, maintainable, testable code.  
• Participate actively in designing platform capabilities - understand our suite of apps and work closely with the other engineering teams to turn ambiguous needs into high quality, scalable, maintainable software.
• Tackle complex problems, resolve them, and ensure solutions prevent future issues.  Do so in a super pragmatic way - build/buy/use should always be on your mind and your work should never suffer from “not invented here syndrome” or “not my preferred language problem”.
• Work independently at times to quickly build features and capabilities on your own without a team, while keeping interested stakeholders in the loop and being able to explain your approach to other engineers for post-delivery hand-off.
• Evolve our architecture to meet current and future needs for scaling, performance, security, and reliability.  Your focus is on quality and speed of delivery.
• Participate in the processes the team uses to organize around the work and get feedback such as planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews.
• Communicate across the org to ensure your team is effective and achieves their goals.
• Work up and down the stack to implement new features and improve our systems.  Our stack is C#, Python, AWS, Postgres, Redis, Node, Elasticache, and React.

What experience and skills we need you to have:

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, or similar professional experience
• 7+ years experience in software generally, ideally in SaaS
• 5+ years experience in one of our core languages (C#, Node) and the ability to quickly work with new languages
• Substantial experience in multiple of our technology stacks.  You have opinions about its strengths and weaknesses.  You also should know when to use a different stack.
• Experience increasing quality/reliability of systems through rock solid technical practices.
• Experience ensuring non functional requirements are met and maintained.
• A track record of accepting feedback and working to improve.
• Experience working in a shared services team.
• Hands-on AWS experience
• Experience with various integration patterns such as: API, queue/brokers, gRPC
• A desire to learn and grow outside of work through books, podcasts, meetups, conferences, etc..

Benefits:

• Flexible PTO (including 11 holidays and your birthday off) 
• 401(k) plan with employer matching 
• Great health benefits with multiple plan option 
• Option to choose between in office, fully remote, or a hybrid work environment for all employees
• Sabbatical program (4 weeks after 5 years of service)
• Casual dress environment (when in office)
• Catered lunches every Tuesday and Thursday
• Company events each quarter
• Signing stipend for a work-from-home setup
• Free gym membership at our office
• Annual employee development program stipend of $2,000 for each employee 
• Flexible parental leave with 10 weeks paid leave for ALL new parents
• Fertility/adoption assistance 
• Annual tutoring stipend for your children
• Mentorship program available immediately 
• Regular team outings
• Advancement opportunities based on results, not politics
• Culture that emphasizes inclusiveness driven by our REDI Committee