Senior Staff Software Engineer
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- The Engineering team is responsible for building out the platforms, API’s, services, workflows, and logical architectures for bringing this vision to life
- We are creating a platform fundamentally driven by AI, which scales to a massive trove of data, and a diverse customer base; it is a complex system that will stretch engineering in many directions
- You’ll work closely with our Data Scientists on projects to analyze and observe world-scale datasets, write code that can scale to produce never-before-seen insights, and construct APIs to deliver our product vision
- Ingest product requirements, define technical requirements, and design practical, iterative technology designs that achieve our product and technical goals
- Work with your product manager to develop implementation plans against our technical product roadmaps
- Personally maintain, develop, and deploy our customer facing workflows to create and support our overall product architecture
- Analyze and propose technical solutions to invent, enable, and enhance our product offerings
- Be responsible for automating, testing, and deploying your own and your team’s work
- Review the code and technical designs authored by your team members, and hold a high bar for quality
- Mentor developers and help them level up their skills
- Be responsible for the technical excellence of day-to-day work of a team of engineers and ensure that the team’s deliverables are maturing along the defined roadmap
- Drive technical decision-making and problem-solving across the team, ensuring solutions are efficient, scalable, and maintainable
- Identify technical and operational gaps for the team and create plans and work items to address them
- Serve as the domain expert for a portion of the product surface area, while holding a firm technical understanding for other areas as well
- Cooperate with team leads and managers in order to keep the team focused on outcomes while delivering sustainable and consistent code
Benefits
- Competitive base salary: We offer competitive base salaries to recognize the incredible work our employees do.
- Learning & development: We support your development through regular performance check-ins and offer financial support for Learning and Development initiatives.
- Health benefits: We offer full global benefits, including a 100% employer-paid plan and tax-advantaged HSA and FSA options in the US.
- Paid time off: We provide a generous PTO policy, including paid sick time, to support your well-being in and out of the office.
- Equity program: We instill ownership by offering competitive new hire equity grants, plus the opportunity to gain more equity along the way.
- Parental leave: We offer up to 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave to support you and your family.
- You have strong written and verbal communication skills
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- You have experience with taking over codebases and making them your own, carrying forward with new feature development
- You are a master of prioritizing and picking your area of focus intentionally
- Experience leading other engineers on complex projects
- 12+ years of real-world professional experience writing back end or data-driven software in demanding environments
- Self-starter with demonstrated experience working on large, complex problems
- You care deeply about engineering excellence, clean code, and knowledge-sharing
- You have demonstrated experience delivering incremental releases from proof-of-concept to MVP to production
- You’ve deployed production code and services to cloud-hosted environments
- Experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience using workflow orchestration technologies like Temporal
