Staff Software Engineer
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Company Overview
Workstream is on a mission to help local businesses and the hourly workforce thrive. Workstream helps companies hire faster with texting / SMS, cutting in half the time to engage, hire, and onboard hourly workers.
Industrial & Manufacturing
Consumer Goods
Automotive & Transportation
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$118M
Founded
2017
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Growth & Insights
Headcount
6 month growth
↓ -3%1 year growth
↑ 0%2 year growth
↑ 3%Locations
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Agile
AWS
Development Operations (DevOps)
JIRA
Git
React.js
Ruby
SCRUM
CategoriesNew
DevOps & Infrastructure
Software Engineering
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Lead having led systems/ architecture design from inception to execution within an Engineering team
- 5+ years of industry experience as an individual contributor
- 5+ years of experience in working in an Agile software engineering methods and tools: Scrum, Jira, GitHub, DevOps, and software architectures that allow rapid iterations
- Demonstrate an understanding of requirement management and roadmap development with product managers
- Have a passion for effective collaboration within and between cross-functional teams, with a history of building influence with Product and Design
- Familiarity with cloud technologies (AWS) and architectural patterns and their trade-offs
- Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams across multiple timezones
- Passionate to learn, understand, and dissect new technology stacks quickly on your own
- Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university; or equivalent training, education, and experience in information / cyber security, computer systems, IT, etc
Responsibilities
- As a Staff Software Engineer, you will work with your squad team members (local + remote) to ensure that implementations are consistent with overall Engineering team strategy
- You will work closely with your squad's Engineering Manager on communicating tasks, challenges and workflows across a globally distributed team
- You have advanced knowledge of Ruby on Rail, Nodejs or React or AWS serverless technologies that offer the advancement of our codebase on stability and scalability
- Design and architecting of cutting edge tools and technologies while maintaining existing stack
- Participate in architecture board review with other squads' new feature architecture technical reviews
- Guide team development efforts towards successful sprint delivery
- Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good habits and practices
- Provide technical leadership to team members through mentoring and coaching