Software Engineer

Job description:

As an engineer on the reporting team, we expect you to have a good understanding of everything data, as well as back-end code development. Your day-to-day work will involve owning the design and execution of medium-complexity features. This position will demand critical thinking skills, the ability to quickly understand existing systems, and the ability to work in agile, fast-paced environments. The ability to take smart and educated risks is essential to the success of this position.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Senior Manager, Software Engineering.

Responsibility:

• Own feature delivery end to end from ideation to deployment and monitoring
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation and help triage alerts and incidents
• Review other team members' code and design documents
• Suggest and own improvements to the system and coding standards

Job Designation:

Hybrid: Employee divides their time between in-office and remote work. Access to an office location is required. Frequency: Minimum 2 days per week; may vary by team but will be a weekly in-office expectation.

Positions are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid, or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions. The company reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law.

What you bring:

Basic:

• 5+ years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Java, C#, Go, Python) and solid computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, system design)
• Experience developing and delivering production features with high-quality code and reliable tests (unit, component, contract, integration, end-to-end, performance); designs for testability
• Experience participating in code reviews and adhering to team guidelines and best practices
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines; able to debug pipeline issues and analyze system logs
• Experience with public cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP), containers (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Experience with monitoring, metrics, and logging; capable of building basic telemetry for features
• Experience participating in on-call using service runbooks/SOPs and performing root cause analysis with minimal guidance

Preferred:

• Comfort working across multiple components and with external dependencies in complex environments
• Strong communication and collaboration skills; able to work effectively with cross-functional partners
• Track record of independently owning and delivering features end-to-end
• Experience authoring and owning testing plans for features and identifying patterns in test failures
• Experience contributing to and improving deployment pipelines and test automation systems
• Experience designing for scalability, reliability, and performance; writes extensible, shareable code and raises the bar through thoughtful code reviews
• Experience defining useful metrics/targets and measurably improving engineering processes and best practices
• Exposure to distributed systems, microservices, REST APIs, and/or event-driven architectures
• Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases, performance testing, and optimization
• Comfortable collaborating in a global, distributed team and working across time zones

Skills

AWS, Azure, C#, CI / CD, Docker, GCP, Go, Java, Kubernetes, Python