As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be creating robust, scalable, and secure microservices that power our SaaS platform and make governance easy for our customers. You ll have the full power of AWS at your disposal and you ll be focused on building serverless solutions (either brand new, or assisting in migrating services to serverless), typically in TypeScript. As part of our core governance teams, your team will fully own their services (from code to deployment and monitoring), you ll participate in architecture discussion, and regularly demo to the entire department.
What you will do
- Design and implement secure and scalable solutions using AWS serverless technology.
- Help break down initiatives to deliver increments of the requirements to each stage.
- Develop high quality code (e.g. adhering to SOLID principles) with plenty of tests and observability baked-in.
- Optimize your team s development, and delivery experience, so you and your team can be as productive as possible and regularly deploy to production.
- As is necessary, develop infrastructure as code using Terraform so you can use more of AWS.
- Work in a collaborative environment where you regularly pair, plan, and execute tasks as a team and strive to optimize your team s Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, Mean-time-to-recovery, and Change Failure Rate.
- Coach and mentor developers, provide guidance on technical designs, and provide constructive code reviews so everyone can grow and learn with you.
- Independently manage your tasks in JIRA without Manager involvement.
What you need to succeed
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or related field.
- 5+ years of professional experience delivering large-scale, high availability, secure applications in an agile environment.
- Strong ability to design for product requirements and implement them in a simple and efficient manner.
- Strong ability to coach and provide code review feedback and contribute to best practices for the brigade.
- Care deeply about code quality and writing great tests at multiple layers.
- Passion for learning, sharing your knowledge and continuous improvement.
- Excitement for understanding our customers and their problems, so that we can improve governance all around the world.
- Experience working with Agile and Kanban / Scrum processes and following strong development and testing processes.
- Experience with good security practices in enterprise application development.
- Knowledge of SQL and NOSQL databases.
- Experience with AWS serverless services, Terraform is a plus.