Job Description
Job Description
This is a remote position.
As a Senior Software Engineer you will join a collaborative team working to enhance and innovate our web service to expand to new customers and further improve efficiencies. We are seeking full stack creative thinkers, who thrive in a fast-paced environment and have a high level of ownership and responsibility for the success of the team. This is a fully remote opportunity that offers an exceptional work/life balance.
Hours: Ability to work East Coast Hours
Primary Function:
- Develop large features & improvements as well as fixes and library upgrades
- Write unit tests to maintain test coverage
- Take initiative to identify improvements to the code structure towards better maintainability and testability
- Drive coding best practices within the team
- May coach junior engineers (process, code base, best practices)
- Conduct thorough and constructive code reviews to ensure quality
- Actively participate in the agile development process (design reviews, planning, and retrospectives); seek to meet commitments and proactively resolve blockers
- Write and review technical designs
- Guide and mentor junior engineers in navigating the codebase, best practices, and relevant languages.
- Contribute to cross-team discussions around processes and architecture improvements
- Implement integrations with third-party services and application components
- Collaborate with peers to prioritize work and be in alignment with strategic goals
- Handle interruptions well, seek to help others reach team goals
- Keep up-to-date with relevant advances in the field
- May participate in interviews for new hires
Requirements
- CS fundamentals (data structure and algorithms)
- Deep knowledge of modern web applications
- Expert in Python
- Proficient with JavaScript / TypeScript / React
- Good knowledge of MongoDB or SQL
- Proficient with Git
- Proficient with Docker
- Excellent problem solving, troubleshooting and debugging skills
- Excellent design & organizational skills
- Authorization to work for any employer in the U.S.
- Ability to work independently in a remote environment with minimal direction/oversight
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including experience working with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to work independently in a remote environment requiring minimal direction/oversight
- Continual improvement and self-learning
Education and Experience:
- 7+ years of professional experience in software development of web applications.
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or related field is a plus
Physical Requirements:
- Remote position.
Preferred or Nice-to-have Skills
- Experience with AWS
- Knowledge of Kubernetes
- Experience with cross-functional teams
- Experience or curiosity with Machine Learning or AI