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Operating with greater autonomy than a Senior Engineer, you are a key decision-maker trusted to tackle complex, high-impact projects that span multiple teams - ensuring technical excellence and driving best practices across your domain.\nYou'lltake ownership of large-scale technical initiatives, ensuring that software architecture is scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business goals. You'llproactively address challenges, mentor engineers, and play a significant role in setting technical standards and best practices across the organization.\nAs part of a team of engineers and technology experts, you'lldeliver mission-critical services that help our customers manage, protect, and maintainmillions of endpoints and servers - designing and developing high-availability software systems that support our global operations.\nWe are hiring for Staff Level candidates across multiple product teams! 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You are a go-to voice for evaluating trade-offs and setting direction across your domain.\nCross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, infrastructure, and engineering teams to drive alignment on technical decisions and ensure solutions are both practical and forward-looking.\nMentorship & Standards:Mentor and elevate engineers across the organization, providing guidance on best practices and helping establishtechnical standards that raise the bar for the entire engineering team.\nOwnership of Large-Scale Initiatives:Take full ownership of complex, multi-team technical initiatives - proactively identifyingchallenges, driving resolutions, and incorporating insights from customer support and operational data.\nQuality Advocacy:Champion and implement quality assurance practices, ensuring the delivery of robust, high-performance software that meets the high expectationsof our customers.\nOther duties as needed\nAbout You\n12+ years of experience in Java software development, particularly for product applications.\n5+ years of experience designing and operatinghighly scalable systems.\nProven experience solving complex system design challenges at scale.\nExpertisein API design and RESTful services, with experience using frameworks like Spring (Spring Boot) or Jersey.\nStrong command of object-oriented programming (OOP) design principles and practices.\nProficient in relational database design and development.\n2+ years of experience with Kotlin is a plus.\nExperience with caching systems, particularly Redis, is a plus.\nIn-depth knowledge of quality testing practices and a track recordof delivering high-quality software.\nBachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience.\nAbout Us\nNinjaOne unifies IT to simplify work for nearly 40,000 customers in 140+ countries.\nThe NinjaOne Unified IT Operations Platform delivers endpoint management, autonomous patching, backup, and remote access in a single console to improve efficiency, increase resilience, and reduce spend. By automating IT and managing all endpoints, organizations give employees a great technology experience at work. NinjaOne is obsessed with customer success and has retained a 98% customer satisfaction score for more than 5 years.\nWhat You’ll Love\nWe are a collaborative, kind, and curious community.\nWe honor your flexibility needs with full-time work that is hybrid remote.\nWe have you covered with our comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, and vision insurance.\nWe help you prepare for your financial future with our 401(k) plan.\nWe prioritize your work-life balance with our unlimited PTO.\nWe reward your work with opportunity for growth and advancement.\nAdditional Information\nThis position isNOTeligible for Visa sponsorship.\n*Due to operational policies, NinjaOne is unable to hire for this role within the city limits of Chicago. 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