Description:
Back End Focus: The role focuses on server-side logic, database management, API development, and integration with front-end components, ensuring high performance and reliability for enterprise applications.
Technical Breadth: Candidates should demonstrate mastery in languages such as Scala, Java and cloud platforms like AWS, with a proven track record in scaling systems and driving architectural decisions.
What you’ll do:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and designers.
- Build scalable, performant, and resilient backend systems that support critical business needs.
- Participate in system design and architecture reviews to influence technical direction.
- Drive software quality through code reviews, testing, and continuous integration.
- Contribute to a positive and inclusive engineering culture through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and leadership at your level.
- Investigate and resolve complex technical issues in production environments.
- Author and review technical design documents, RFCs, and root cause analyses.
- Continuously learn and grow in your engineering craft and domain knowledge.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure swift resolution of any production outages involving your systems.
What you’ll need:
- 8+ years of professional experience.
- Recognized technical authority with the ability to influence system architecture across teams or domains.
- Track record of delivering high-impact projects with significant architectural ownership.
- Mastery of multiple languages and paradigms; able to guide complex trade-offs and tech decisions.
- Extensive experience scaling systems to handle high throughput and low latency.
- Strong ability to mentor, elevate peers, and lead cross-team technical initiatives.
- Proven experience driving quality, reliability, and operational excellence at scale.
- Strategic thinking with the ability to align technical direction with company goals.
- Thought leadership in areas like distributed systems, functional programming, or cloud-native architecture.