Sr. Software Engineer

In This Role You Will:

• Take a pragmatic technical leadership role within an autonomous team of 5-7 engineers, a dedicated Product Manager and UX support to build, enhance and maintain existing areas of the Tackle platform.
• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
• Write code that is focused on scalability, testability, supportability and maintainability.
• Own your code start to finish, take pride in what you build.
• Actively and enthusiastically participate in thorough code reviews and troubleshooting complex issues.
• Drive the direction of our apprenticeship program for mentoring new team members and less experienced team members.
• Be curious - strive to understand how your contributions tie into the larger picture of your team, your product and Tackle as a whole.
• Welcome different perspectives - be open and inclusive in every interaction.

You Should Have:

• 6+ years of professional experience building modern, scalable and high-performing backend services.
• 3+ years professionally developing in Go. 
• Advanced skill in NoSQL database modeling with DynamoDB, including Single Table Design. 
• Advanced knowledge of relational databases such as Postgres.
• Professional working experience deploying applications and managed services within AWS, including, but not limited to API Gateway, Lambda, and Step-Functions.
• Deep experience in infrastructure as code with AWS CDK, Terraform, or similar frameworks.
• Strong experience building RESTful APIs 
• Understanding of microservice  event-driven design, ideally utilizing Amazon Eventbridge
• Strong fundamentals in type-driven development practices.
• Desire to hold yourself and the team to high standards while evaluating technical trade-offs and delivering balanced solutions.
• Are self-motivated with strong organizational skills.
• Have a positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Will thrive in a fully remote organization where flexible schedules require asynchronous communication.
• Communicate clearly and effectively in both verbal and written form. 

You Will Stand Out:

• Mastery level of knowledge with PostgreSQL and/or DynamoDB.
• Have a desire to take a leadership role in our Architecture or Testing guilds because you have an eye for quality, design principles and other ilities (Scalability, Usability, Testability, Securability, Flexibility)
• Deployed and released code with CI/CD using CircleCI.
• Have a robust public portfolio in GitHub.
• Previously worked in a remote-first company.
• Have experience working in a rapidly scaling organization.