Senior Software Engineer

Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? In this role, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking Software Engineering Leaders who are passionate about emerging technologies. You’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of modernizing a banking core that powers over $60 billion in annual transaction volume for over 100 million active payment cards for one of the largest credit card issuers in the world.

 

The Senior Software Engineer will join an Observability focused team working with open source OpenTelemetry and Distributed Tracing technologies reporting to a Sr. Manager.

Responsibilities:

● Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies

● Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, mentoring other members of the engineering community

● Utilize various programming languages, Open Source technologies, Relational/NoSQL databases, Containers and a variety of AWS tools and services with a special focus on Serverless initiatives.

● Implement software in unambiguous and uncomplicated domains with regular guidance while learning and applying standards and practices

● Perform directed enhancements to established deployment pipelines and troubleshoot moderately complex issues with local builds and deployment pipelines

● Learn specified architectural and design patterns and apply the learning to design non complex systems and simple architectures

● Debug most moderately complex issues across backend, frontend, middleware, infrastructure, databases and pipelines across all environments from local to production

● Quickly identify root cause and implement fixes with occasional expert assistance on challenging issues

● Develop features to enhance the overall user experience when provided high level direction

 

Basic Qualifications:

● Bachelor’s degree

● At least 5 years of experience building back-end services (one of the following: Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, Node, Scala, TypeScript, Spring Boot) (Internship experience does not apply)

● At least 2 years of experience with a front-end language (one of the following: JavaScript, TypeScript)

● At least 2 years of experience with a database technology (one of the following: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB)

● At least 2 years of experience designing, building, and testing distributed systems

● At least 2 years experience with AWS (Lambdas, S3, DynamoDB, SQS)

● At least 1 year recent experience with observability, monitoring, and telemetry tools (OpenTelemetry, Sentry, Splunk, Grafana)

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

● Experience with Agile software development

● 6+ years of experience with a server side application framework (Django, Express, Spring)

● 6+ years of experience building and testing software

● 6+ years of experience with high level design (HLD)

● 6+ years of experience implementing functional tests, unit tests, integrated tests or automated tests to support CICD

● Experience in DevOps or site reliability a strong plus