Lead Software Developer - Full Stack

As an Engineer on the Braintree Merchant Onboarding team, you will be responsible for the evolution of our merchant onboarding platform. You will make key technology decisions, build & maintain large production grade systems, work with our customers to solve their day-to-day problems, and mentor and guide other engineers. 

Your day to day

• Anchor major team workstreams to build and improve large-scale systems, grow the scale of our platform, reduce complexity, increase automation and burn down technical debt. 

• Build key components of our platform via pair programming with other engineers.

• Setup practices to ensure the highest levels of operational resiliency; 

• Collaborate with leadership, peers and customers to effectively deliver solutions and projects.

• Serve as a mentor, technical leader, and thought leader within a talented team of engineers, challenging others and helping them grow; 

• Track business impact of features on a regular basis, and rely on performance data to make informed decisions about possible changes or improvements. 

• Contribute to a culture of learning and sharing technology insights across team

• Support production systems 24/7 (One week in 2+ months - Team rotation based)

What you need to bring

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering.

• Design and operational experience with large scale production grade systems.

• Deep experience in one or more of the following: Python, Java, Ruby, Golang, JavaScript, or shell scripting.

• Good Linux skills and understanding of operating systems.

• Experience building and maintaining large distributed systems on one of the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP). 

• Extensive API design and development experience.

• Strong technical accomplishments in SQL, ETLs and data analysis skills.

• MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, or similar data handling experience.

• Experience with infrastructure as code tooling such as Terraform & CloudFormation.

• Ability to work in a fast paced, agile development environment; 

• Ability to partner with business units, product management, program management and cross-functional teams to deliver business results with agility and high quality.

• Excellent time management skills and ability to work on concurrent assignments with different priorities; Proven results-oriented engineer with a focus on the customer and delivering quality products.