Principal Software Engineer  

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Facilitate high quality, scalable product development through presented requirements, architectural designs, user stories, and other artifacts
• Champion development of the team, ensuring minimal tech debt; maximizing efficiency
• Oversee strategy surrounding code deployments and supervise the foundation and framework for others to be effective throughout the release process
• Lead productive, results-driven business discussions and decision making
• Implement designs quickly and efficiently with minimal error; delegating lower level tasks and providing guidance to more Junior developers when appropriate
• Manage cross-functional mechanisms to share data securely and efficiently between teams
• Assist in automating the developer toolkit to provide recurring value to the company over time; enabling quicker ramp times for new employees and more efficient internal transfers
• Create strategies to automate the quality assurance phase of the development cycle through rigorous automation testing
• Promote a DevOps culture; monitoring system uptime, response times, and product quality.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• 5+ years of engineering experience
• Been trained as engineers and know how to build fault-tolerant systems that handle hairy edge cases
• A passion for coding, design, and automation, technical expertise, and knowledge to effectively hide internal complexity behind elegant and simple interfaces
• Diverse perspectives with the ability to consider all angles of the business while making pragmatic decisions
• The drive to build things, ship early and often, initial comfort with less than perfect, a willingness to say "no" when needed, build to throw away, and clarity with anything you create because you know the next thing's going to be even better
• A team player mentality, a hands-on, technical approach to mentoring others and the ability to find reward and delight in seeing others around you grow
• Extensive full-stack experience in a wide range of technologies; a bonus if you know our stack but not required (our stack includes Go, Scala, Elixir, Java, React/Redux/ES6/Webpack,, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis and NGINX)