Senior Software Engineer

Accomplished Tech Visionary

We build breakthrough software products that power digital businesses. We are an innovative product development partner whose solutions drive rapid revenue, market share, and customer growth for industry leaders in Software and SaaS, Media and Publishing, Information Services, and Retail.

Our key differentiator is our Product Mindset. Our development teams focus on building for outcomes and all of our team members around the globe are trained on the Product Mindset's core values – Minimize Time to Value, Solve For Need, and Excel at Change. Our teams apply this mindset to build digital products that are customer-facing and revenue-generating. Our business-minded approach to agile development ensures that we align to client goals from the earliest conceptual stages through market launch and beyond.

Key Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for analyzing data integrity challenges including investigating, correcting, and monitoring data to help identify and address key data issues. Must be comfortable remedying production support data integrity issues and identifying root cause analysis by going through the code.
• Facilitate effective communication with client project stakeholders regarding project status and recommendations.
• Craft client code that is not just efficient, but also performant, testable, scalable, secure, and of the highest quality.
• Actively participate in accurate planning and estimation efforts, utilizing project methods and tools.
• Proficiently gather requirements and organize/present developed features for clients.
• Execute complex activities within the current methodology and quality standards, showcasing success across diverse engagements.
• Promote client success across the team by collaborating with engineers, designers, and managers to understand user pain points, anticipate potential problems, and iterate on solutions that drive client success.
• Engage in agile software development, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, team retrospectives, and other governance activities.
• Actively participate in the Engineering Practice community, mentoring others through Communities of Practice (CoPs) or on project teams, and supporting the growth of technical capabilities.
• Independently drive project delivery within defined architecture, demonstrating autonomy and accountability in all stages from conceptualization to deployment.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience/expertise in the following areas specified below:
• Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs using Node.js
• Utilize serverless services, namely AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, or RDS for robust backend infrastructure
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute on technical requirements
• Optimize system performance and troubleshoot issues
• Stay updated with the latest Node.js and AWS technologies to drive continuous improvement
• Sift through logs and query DynamoDB/RDS data stores to analyze data errors and inconsistencies, perform root cause analysis by investigating code and then fix the data issues and remedy the code.
• Experience in Agile software development methodologies.
• Expertise in applying Object-Oriented Programming principles (abstraction, encapsulation).
• High-level design proficiency following UML / C4 / ArchiMate. Experience in creating and implementing well-tested, scalable, and performant enterprise-level systems.
• Practice and initiative mentoring other engineers and decision-makers throughout the organization.
• Good understanding of SOLID principles. Familiarity with OWASP.
• Proficiency in the English language.

Additional Experience Desired:

• Ability to optimize backend performance and troubleshoot issues. Familiarity with modern frontend build tools and CI/CD pipelines. Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude towards challenges.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Professional software engineering experience, working on multi-discipline teams Experience in backend development with expertise in node.js Proficiency in designing and implementing RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
• Good knowledge of AWS services like Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB/RDS, and S3.
• Experience with containerization using Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes (optional).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude towards challenges and Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs)
• Architectural (Microservices, Serverless etc) and Design (Factory, Singleton, Observer etc) Patterns
• Unit Testing

$100,000 - $128,000 a year