About the job

What You Will Do:

● Serve as the local technical lead in the critical domain, designing & building a platform that interfaces with many different systems

● Play a key role in developing and driving a multi-year technology strategy for Experiences Platform

● Architect and write code to implement high-quality, scalable, future-proof services that will have effective system boundaries and will support long-term vision & strategy

● Conduct technical debate across an entire platform and help come to durable documented conclusions

● Drive high-impact architectural solutions and hands-on development, including inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design and coding practices

● Obsessively focus on production readiness for the team including testing, monitoring, deployment, documentation, and proactive troubleshooting

● Identify risks and gaps in technical approaches and propose solutions to meet the department's technical vision

● Influence and contribute to the department's strategy and roadmap

● Support the growth of other engineers technically by mentoring, pairing, and developing other opportunities for education

What you bring to the table

● 7+years of experience in engineering, with a preference for candidates with a mix of start-up and large-company experience

● Hands-on experience driving software transformations within high-growth environments at scale

● Experienced in architecting and building large-scale, cloud-based, and event-driven systems across various projects

● Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving teams forward and ability to influence results

Technology Requirements

● GCP target cloud platform, experience at scale.

● Extensive experience in developing front end applications.

● Distributed microservice architectures with well architected domain boundaries

● High volume async messaging architectures

● Largescale relational and NoSQL style data stores

● Common opensource platforms, tools and framework, eg: Kafka, Kubernetes, Containerization, Java microservices, GraphQL, NextJS, React

Java Technical Lead