Sr Staff Engineer Software

Location: We prefer candidates that can eventually work hybrid in Baltimore MD, Evansville IN, Charlotte NC, Wilmington DE, or Irving TX

Key skills: tech lead experience, JAVA, Typescript, OpenShift, AWS

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including several years as the technical lead for teams owning production systems the business depends on, with a track record of keeping them available through change.
• Direct experience leading at least one platform retirement or major migration program end to end-scoping, sequencing, cutover, and decommissioning-without disrupting the business.
• Experience managing and maintaining distributed systems.
• Conversant in many technologies and languages, and able to learn new technologies quickly.
• Proactively applies industry-leading technology trends, best practices, design principles and patterns, and methods including Agile software development, iterative delivery, and cloud computing.
• Experience and proficiency with cloud platforms and patterns, preferably AWS.
• Uses critical thinking to reach conclusions and analytical thinking for problem solving in support of achieving desired outcomes.
• Applies enthusiasm for continuous learning to improve results and shares it with others.
• Deep Java expertise, including hands-on experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server (or another Java EE application server) and with migrating those workloads to Spring Boot, Open Liberty, Quarkus, or similar runtimes on Kubernetes.
• Working proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js services.
• Hands-on experience with managed file transfer: Axway (SecureTransport or B2Bi) or a comparable platform (IBM Sterling, GoAnywhere, MOVEit), including SFTP/FTPS/AS2 protocols, PGP encryption, scheduling, partner onboarding, and audit requirements.
• Experience building and running containerized workloads on OpenShift or Kubernetes: images, Helm or operators, routes and ingress, secrets, resource tuning, and CI/CD into the cluster.
• Hands-on experience building on AWS: S3, IAM, SQS/SNS/EventBridge, Lambda, and AWS Transfer Family, and connecting on-prem or OpenShift workloads to AWS securely.
• Hands-on experience with messaging and event streaming-Kafka and IBM MQ-including delivery guarantees, ordering, replay, and dead-letter handling.
• Depth in GraphQL and REST API design and Postgres.
• Experience integrating with mainframe systems and on-prem legacy platforms, and modernizing or retiring them without disrupting the business.
• A track record of reducing operational risk: documentation, automation, runbooks, and cross-training that make systems runnable by others.
• Experience stepping into an in-flight program as a contractor or consultant and leading it to completion.