Staff Engineer- Fullstack,(LIVE Team)

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers, fostering a collaborative, psychologically safe, and high-performance work environment.
• Support the engineers on the team by coaching, setting goals, and providing regular feedback.
• Facilitate team ceremonies - daily stand ups, weekly team meetings, retrospectives, etc.
• Champion processes and the engineering maturity expected of an established tech-focused organization.
• Lead design, discovery, technical planning, and status discussions within your team, helping set direction and context, and identifying any gaps or blockers.
• Contribute to discussions around high level planning, roadmaps, and status with teams across the organization.

What to Bring

• 9-13 years of experience developing scalable software using microservices
• Experience in backend and frontend software development, ranging from building micro services and event driven architectures/solutions to customer-facing UI.
• Experience in private and public API design and cross-service integrations.
• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g., unit testing, design patterns, building maintainable code, performance)
• Familiarity with a range of database technologies, encompassing both SQL and NoSQL options.
• Usage and deep understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript, Kubernetes, Kafka and AWS services
• Experience building, operating, and owning services. Implementing operational excellence mechanisms, runbooks, and best practices including alerting, metrics, and logging using CloudWatch, PagerDuty, etc.
• Ability to work with minimal instructions on day-to-day work, able to consume and self-start with general instructions on new assignments.
• Fosters an inclusive, supportive, and physiologically safe engineering culture.

About you:

• You understand a broad range of computer science concepts, and know how, when, and when not to use them. You can dive deep into a wide range of technical problems offering suggestions and feedback to your team, and you are still comfortable with technical details.
• You make good decisions and exercise accurate judgement when choosing to build new vs adapting existing systems.
• You are experienced and capable of playing a leading role to design and develop major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, in collaboration with other teams as necessary.
• You propose and proactively seek to establish best practices where none exist and have a track-record of applying these on teams you have led.
• You are comfortable with scrum agile methodologies, aiming for continuous improvement, adapting best engineering practices, and leading by example.