Software Engineer II

Roles & Responsibilities

Build high-performance, stable, and scalable systems deployed in production. Always champion engineering and operational excellence. Drive best practices and set standards within the team. Understand a broad range of data structures, algorithms design, and know how, when and when not to use them. Exercise good judgment when balancing immediate and long-term business needs. Creatively think and innovate to deliver delightful experiences for customers. Always demonstrate data-driven decision-making and continuously seek solutions to challenging problems. Hold strong opinions while remaining open to other perspectives. Consistently deliver results, with quality, in a fast-paced environment. Collaborate with peers, share knowledge, and contribute to technical decisions. Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and improve processes. Document code, designs, and processes for clarity. Provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices. Establish best practices and quality standards within the team.

What to Bring

Bachelors degree with 2+ years of experience as a software developer. Proficient in Java (Vert.x or Spring Boot frameworks is a plus) or other JVM languages. Proficient in JavaScript frameworks like React or Angular, HTML/CSS, and UI/UX design principles. Experience with persistence and caching solutions such as PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch. Experience in building and operating global-scale large platform services in non-prod and prod environments. Ability to collaborate effectively with remote peers across disparate geographies and time zones. Strong CS fundamentals; strong technical understanding of Kubernetes-based microservice architectures, caching solutions, messaging services, DB services, API gateways, service mesh, and infrastructure-as-code technologies/processes. Direct experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, or other). Experience establishing and improving data-driven infrastructure and service KPIs such as performance, scale, availability, reliability, security. A strong understanding of security best practices and a high bar for protecting customer data. Ability to implement alerting, metrics, and logging using tools like Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty. Familiar with asynchronous, non-blocking, functional/reactive styles of programming. Hands-on experience with frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, Vert.x, Node.js. Operational Experience to run services globally; on-call rotation, incident response, playbooks. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with emphasis on technical documentation.