Job Description:

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you mentor other Staff Engineers to increase their impact and abilities both within the org and across the company. You lead design, implementation and effective delivery to customers of multiple company-wide objectives and work well under pressure, respond with urgency and operate with a high degree of autonomy, accountability and maturity.

Strategic thinking is a default part of your execution. You identify, tackle, and deliver on strategically important problems at the organizational level - across Product, Platform and Infrastructure - and can recognize threats and opportunities impacting the organization, devise a strategy, and partner with everyone needed to execute on the strategy.

You are an evangelist who understands cost, effort, adoption, impact and related aspects, driving meaningful change across the technology group.

The Senior Staff Software Engineer is sought out for the techno-functional expertise in one/more areas by a large cross section of the engineering group, thereby making this role a model for well-rounded technical excellence in the entire engineering group. Overall, this Senior Staff Software Engineer role is a step towards becoming part of a very small group of techno-functional experts who command respect across the entire organization for their leadership and impact to the overall technology group.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Leading the team to (re)Design, Build and maintain large-scale, high-throughput foundational services and libraries.
Recruit and groom strong engineers and future technical leaders.
Build strong, high performing teams by forming a strong team culture of safety, accountability, and empathy and effectively driving team execution.
Collaborate with partners in Product, Design, and other engineering leads to drive team vision and strategy - product roadmap, execution and resource plan, and setting priorities
Level up the technical skills of your team by
Coaching the team to create scalable and secure system designs.
Reviewing pull requests and technical design documents.
Being able and willing to get your hands dirty and help your team debug issues and ship code when needed.
Drive strong engineering practices around product development execution, operational excellence in observability, quality, reliability, and developer efficiency.
Effectively communicate and build alignment up, down and sideways across the organization.
Be a champion for Diversity and Inclusion by sourcing, hiring, and advocating for a diverse group of engineers.
Responsible for creating and influencing innovative solutions that meet not only functional, but also performance, security, scalability and reliability requirements.
Highly motivated self-starter who loves ownership and responsibility while working in a collaborative and interdependent team environment.
Work with multiple teams of engineers to design, develop, and test major software and systems components using an agile, scrum methodology.
Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into detailed execution plans and schedules; manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team by defining, implementing and maintaining a coherent, progressive development strategy for our product line.
Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments.
Management of departmental resources, staffing, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team.
Evolution of the software engineering practice within the organization, including better reporting, tools, and evolution of development methodology.
Continue to build an effective development organization by developing and managing the group, and conducting performance reviews of team members.

REQUIREMENTS:

13+ years of overall experience in engineering with a Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline.
3+ years of recent management experience managing 10+ team members.
10+ years of individual contributor engineering experience engineering products with a modern tech stack, preferably Java, REST, Spring Framework, any relational DB, CI/CD in an agile environment.
Demonstrated track record of building and managing high performing engineering teams in a fast paced, high impact, high growth environment.
Passion for building and shipping products that users love with high quality and speed.
Passion for career development. You don t shy away from difficult performance conversations, and you recognize the relationship between constructive feedback and career growth.
Enjoy staying technical and is able and willing jump in and code or debug issues to help your team.
Expertise with a NoSQL Database like MongoDB.
Possess exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
Strong project management skills and can keep your team and yourself organized with effective prioritization, while juggling multiple projects and priorities.
Growth mindset and continually look to improve and expand your skill set.
Demonstrated ability to collaborate well with product, design, and other engineering teams to ship services.
Experience in the design of new systems or redesign of existing systems to meet business requirements, changing needs, or newer technology.
Ability to break down complex concepts into easily understood frameworks and models.
Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts.
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
Passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others, and the ability to establish and sell the business and technical vision for a complicated problem area.
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