Staff Software Engineer

Description

• Identify the scope of the work, provide initial estimate and justify the estimate with facts
• Seek and provide feedback on design and development
• Provide guidance to a team of 5 to 7 developers with either planning and execution and/or design architecture using agile methodologies such as SCRUM
• Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill
• Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules
• Be responsible for providing technical leadership and defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
• Drive design reviews, define interfaces between code modules, and applies existing technology to designs
• Write code that meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
• Work with Product Line Leaders (PLLs) to understand product requirements & vision
• Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.
• Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation
• Engage in technical discussions; participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding
• Execute in a fast pace delivery mode and focus in delivering tasks to meet the product release goal
• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas

Requirements

• Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with web development using HTML5, CSS
• Experience with Play framework, Angular is a big plus
• Hands-on experience Angular for Front-end development and Python for backend
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
• Understand whole product, its modules and the interrelationship between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module
• Able to work under minimal supervision
• Experience working with Databases
• Strong knowledge of Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Design Patterns and Python coding principles
• Expert in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks
• Strong problem solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
• Be an expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and has the ability to implement them using language of choice
• Demonstrate the understanding of Agile software development lifecycle and able to distinguish the core inputs and outputs in each cycle.
• Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility
• Be an expert in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices
• Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
• Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Shows ability to effectively delegate work
• Demonstrate the ability to make informed technology choices after due diligence and impact assessment
• Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance