Staff Software Engineer

What you'll do

• Participate actively in all aspects of designing, building, and delivering products for clients
• Develop with a variety of platforms and technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, Gitlab, AWS, Azure, Aliyun, .NET Core, Java, Scala, SQL Server, GraphQL
• Participate in design reviews and proof of concepts
• Contribute to solution design in line with overall technical roadmap and industry best practices
• Work on large-scale distributed systems coordinating thousands of servers in cloud and physical data centers
• Address petabyte-scale data challenges, machine learning, advanced visualizations, and interactive user interfaces
• Provide mentoring, technical leadership, and/or direct management of small teams to build up the team and raise standards

Requirements

• Commercial development skills in OO programming (C#, Java or C++) and design
• Cloud-based platform experience (AWS, Azure or Aliyun)
• Excellent understanding of Agile development methodology and development practices
• Experience in Agile Scrum tools (such as Jira)
• Understanding of designing web-based, service-oriented applications and integrated back-office systems
• Experience in distributed source control system (such as Git)
• Sustained track record of making significant, self-directed, and end-to-end contributions to large and impactful software projects
• Ability to think beyond just the task at hand to deeply understand the 'why' behind what you are doing
• Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to evaluate and adapt solutions from first principles
• Broadly skilled Technical Lead accustomed to developing web services
• Experience building always-on systems across a variety of technologies and service layers
• Product-focused mindset
• Passion and ability to contribute to discovering client needs and advancing industry transparency and evidence-based decision-making
• Ability to work with confidence and without ego
• Strong leadership skills with deep technical knowledge
• Ability to advocate for ideas while being open to trade-offs and team support
• Value and foster diversity
• Creative thinker who learns and innovates quickly

Tech stack