Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Your Impact The Senior Software Engineer (platform) is a senior engineer responsible for subsystems of a project. They lead epics/initiatives, mentor more junior engineers, and contribute to architectural decisions. They have a substantial impact on their team and sometimes across teams. They design and develop high-quality, scalable, and innovative software solutions in a SaaS environment, utilizing cutting-edge technologies and methodologies, and ensuring they meet the current and future needs of the business and its customers What You'll Do Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Provides technical leadership in project teams, mentor and guide more junior engineers, and contribute to technical decision-making. Performance Optimization: Focuses on designing systems for high performance, scalability, and reliability. Stakeholder Engagement: Works with stakeholders, including product managers, designers, developers, and executives, to align architectural designs with business needs and customer expectations. Proficient Software Development: Designs, develops, and maintains sophisticated software solutions, ensuring they are efficient, scalable, and meet business requirements with architectural excellence. Responsible for System Design Grooming for features for a subsystem. Code Quality and Optimization: Upholds and enhances code quality through rigorous review processes, optimization techniques, and adherence to best practices. Technical Problem Solving: Tackles complex technical challenges, employing a problem-solving approach with innovative solutions. Collaboration and Communication: Works effectively within the engineering team and cross-functional teams, collaborating with other engineering teams, product managers, and stakeholders, contributing to project planning and execution. Continuous Learning and Adaptation: Stays updated with the latest technology trends and advancements, continually enhancing skills and knowledge, bringing innovative ideas to the team Technical Documentation: Creates and maintains comprehensive technical documentation, ensuring clarity and accessibility of information. Data Platform Development: Designs, builds, and maintains, scalable and robust data platforms to support analytics, machine learning, and business intelligence. Data Integration and ETL: Develops and optimizes ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes and data integration pipelines. Ensure efficient data flow across various sources and systems. Advanced File Processing: Develops extensible file processing pipelines that offer flexible, self-service artifact generation. Researches and evaluates file processing software based on fidelity, reliability, and performance criteria. Models file processing outcomes within an observability framework to provide insights for engineering teams and business leaders. Develops engineering systems that facilitate rapid and minimally manual evaluation of file processors. Data Management: Orchestrates scaleout data pipelines that optimize serverless and containerized compute to balance cost, latency, and duration. Contributes to algorithmically intensive data engines operating on streaming, large, or multi-tenant datasets. Troubleshoots systems, identify root causes, and rectify bugs. Who You Are 7-10+ years of relevant experience in software development, with a focus on SaaS or cloud-based applications. 5+ years of professional experience with each of the following: Service Oriented Architecture, Docker-based services, micro-services, API and Data Model Design or Implementation. Experience in leading or playing key roles in significant software projects, showing an ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team. Knowledge of ElasticSearch, NoSql Stores, Kafka, Columnar Databases, DataFlow or Pipeline Systems Knowledge of Design, implementation, and operation of data-intensive, distributed system Proficiency in containerization technologies such as ... (truncated, view full listing at source)