Staff Software Engineer - (Go, Ruby, Javascript, React, Vue, Devops)

Responsibilities

• Be a part of a high performing team developing scalable, reliable, and cost-effective software solutions with an emphasis on quality, performance, resilience, and efficiency.
• Work with Product, Operations, and Engineering stakeholders to understand the production and scalability requirements of assigned projects.
• Work on several projects with multiple dependencies and complex requirements upstream and downstream and with stakeholders across teams.
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks in both frontend and backend components, and optimize applications for speed and scalability. 
• Lead the design, implementation, deployment, and operation of our production system architecture, applications, platforms, and pipelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a cohesive and unified approach, and mentor junior team members

Key Skills

• A graduate degree in computer science, or similar discipline.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience delivering high quality standalone and web applications, platforms, and micro services.
• Proficiency with Ruby on Rails (requirement/use will diminish over time).
• Proficiency with Go (requirement/use will increase over time).
• Knowledge of Javascript/Typescript and React (vue.js experience short term)
• Experience with a wide variety of databases (relational, non-relational, graph, in-memory). Preferred PostgreSQL, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch knowledge.
• Experience with cloud implementation & architecture, container technologies, and orchestration tools, specifically using AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform, as well as general DevOps.
• Strong experience designing and implementing APIs, complex microservices, system architecture, and handling big data.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills.