What You’ll Do

• Provide direction and guidance for large feature work from the inception stage
• Assist a product delivery team with refactoring and enforcing core architectural principles while we consolidate and reduce complexity to improve the user experience
• Focus on our core application, but also be aware of our additional product(s) and their interactions
• Express thoughtful opinions and know-how on implementing enterprise-grade systems at the code and schema levels as well as distributed systems architecture
• Champion a holistic engineering approach that accounts for SDLC and CICD best practices in terms of development velocity and risk management
• Lay out the foundations for new services in Kotlin/Java and Python and ensure their implementation not only to functional requirements, but to performance, scalability, security, and other technical characteristics
• Recognize, classify, prioritize, and business-justify investments in servicing tech debt
• Collaborate with our product, design, and development teams in order to fully create and understand the requirements for what is necessary to be produced
• Lead investigations when necessary to resolve production issues, always putting our customers first
• Grow yourself and your team’s engineering skills by mentoring other engineers and reviewing code to ensure high code quality and continuous improvement

Who You Are

• Strong development background with 10+ years experience in Java or Kotlin is required
• Python and/or other environments are a plus
• Solid computer science fundamentals and demonstrable hands-on experience with architectural design and complex systems
• You have experience designing systems that scale as validated through performance and load testing
• A profound understanding of how to best create modern SaaS-based web applications
• Comprehensive knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure development and tech stacks (AWS strongly preferred), familiarity with Git for version control, and back-end deployment process best practices
• Hands-on experience with SQL databases and other persistence models and caching schemes
• Experience with DataDog and a strong interest in observability is a plus
• You have led high-level technical projects or have been the primary engineering leader of multi-month engineering projects
• Skilled at conflict management and resolution; advocating for your ideas strongly while listening and integrating the ideas of others equally strongly
• Natural collaborator and problem solver who thrives in fast-paced environments
• Relentlessly curious and are continuously working to learn and build your knowledge
• You put customers first and are open to help triage on the occasional customer or partner call

Compensation Education

• The Boston based range for this full time position is $200,000 - $225,000
• For more details on how we came up with this range, check out this article from our VP of People & Culture
• Stavvy is committed to competitive and equitable pay for all Stavviators. The listed pay range for this role is a good faith estimate of the hiring range for this position. Compensation offered will be determined based on several factors including an individual’s experience, qualifications, and geographic location.

What We Offer

• Fully Covered Medical Insurance
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Employer Paid & Voluntary Life Insurance
• Equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Additional Paid Time Off (12 Holidays & 12 Recharge days)
• 401K
• Office centrally located in Boston’s financial district
• Paid Parental, Medical, & Military Leave
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Competitive salary and generous stock options
• Core values-based leadership
• Endless opportunities to learn and take on new responsibilities in a fast-paced, growth-mode startup