Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack Platform Engineering

Job Summary: As a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack with a Front End focus), you'll deliver complex code solutions. You'll support the build and deployment pipeline and when necessary, diagnose / solve production support or on-call issues. You'll contribute to overall system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, application performance and provide end-to-end support.

Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions:

• Works on technology projects / tasks with limited or no guidance
• Writes production-ready code and tests that meet acceptance criteria, are easily testable, documented, easily understood by other developers, and account for edge cases, security, and errors.
• Creating, configuring, and supporting build and deployment pipelines.
• Leads others in coding / configuration / maintaining / testing / debugging existing or new systems; delivers quality features and bug fixes that align with our development process
• Capable of leading team on effective production support or on-call, debugging, and troubleshooting highly complex issues within team services. Able to identify a path to resolution for most issues for team services.
• Demonstrates ownership of team services and influences the team. Starts to learn how to influence across teams. Fosters growth environment through mentorship and open collaboration with peers.
• Recommends and drives changes to processes and tools at the team level aligned with the organization and company goals.
• Reviews epics critically and ensures dependencies are identified, they're appropriately broken down and prioritized, and well understood by the team and stakeholders.
• Drives priority setting and urgency in alignment with organizational strategy.
• Anticipates and communicates blockers, delays, and cost ballooning for their work before they require escalation. Ensures expectations within their team are clarified between all parties involved.
• Leads team ceremonies and larger team efforts.
• Drives improvements within assigned team.
• Expert knowledge in their area of focus and mentors' others
• Fosters a culture of documentation and knowledge sharing within their team and with their team's business stakeholders.
• Leads root cause analysis and establishing action items for the RCA.
• Learns to work with other teams to resolve issues involving dependent services. Identifies and communicates cross-team dependencies.
• Ensures system monitoring for team services is effective and adheres to best practices.

The responsibilities and essential functions outlined above describe the general nature and level of work assigned to this position. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Duties and responsibilities may be modified at any time based on business needs. Employees may be required to perform other job-related tasks as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodations.

Qualifications & Key Requirements:

Work Experience:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and supporting enterprise-scale applications and platforms.
• Experience developing full stack solutions across web, backend and modern application architectures.
• Strong proficiency with React, Next.js, Java Spring Boot and Python.
• Hands-on experience designing and building microservices and micro front-end architectures.
• Experience defining technical strategy, architecture patterns and engineering best practices for scalable platforms.
• Proven ability to build, modernize or scale enterprise platforms in a cloud environment.
• Experience developing and deploying applications in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong understanding of system design, API development, distributed systems and application performance.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and support production systems when required.
• Must be located in or willing to relocate to San Antonio or Austin, Texas and work onsite.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience building platform capabilities used by multiple engineering teams.
• Experience leading technical initiatives or serving as a technical lead on complex projects.
• Experience with observability, monitoring and operational excellence practices.
• Experience working in newly formed or rapidly growing engineering teams.
• Experience supporting high-availability, customer-facing applications at scale.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Proficient in multiple programming languages, technologies, and frameworks.
• Advanced knowledge in system and data architecture, data modeling, and design and capable of architecting and designing at the application or service level using well-accepted design patterns
• Able to review platform designs for strength of engineering solutions, namely performance, sustainability, and iterative development potential.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns, system architecture and design patterns
• Advanced understanding of development methodologies and processes
• For Backend Software Engineer, proficient knowledge of relevant technologies (e.g., React, Node, PHP, MySQL, reactive programming, Java, Python)
• For Backend Software Engineer, understanding of systems architecture technologies (e.g., Android, iOS, Linux, Amazon Web Services, Docker)
• For Android, familiarity with build and release procedures, tools (e.g., Kotlin, Kotlin Flow, Compose, Coroutines, GraphQL)
• For Android, proficient at analyzing memory and performance issues using profiling tools.
• For iOS, proficient with build and release procedures, tools (e.g., Swift, Xcode, SwiftUI, Combine, Swift Concurrency, GraphQL)
• Proficient at analyzing memory and performance issues using profiling tools.
• For Engineer in Test, proficient knowledge of relevant technologies (e.g., Playwright, XCTest, Espresso, Saucelabs, Locust, JUnit)
• High degree of personal accountability to self and team for continued growth
• Adjust - Leverages Agile metrics to improve team performance and deliverables. Evaluates and adjusts resources, self, and team as necessary.
• Collaborate - Ability to work on tasks which span multiple domains, requiring cross-team collaboration, which have a high impact on your project.
• Agility - Embraces risk, change, and helps team manage ambiguity within the team's scope of work.
• Able to drive progress without having a complete picture and can articulate potential tradeoffs and prioritize when faced with ambiguity.
• Connect - Delivers clear, concise, effective messages across different levels; can tailor communication based on intended audience.
• Growth Mindset - Fosters a culture of mentoring and coaching across multiple technical teams and other stakeholders.
• Relate - Fosters a culture within their team where people are encouraged to share their opinions and contribute to discussions in a respectful manner, approach disagreement non-defensively with inquisitiveness, and use contradictory opinions as a basis for constructive, productive conversations.

Education:

• A Computer Science degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience

Physical Demands & Working Conditions:

• Travel by car or plane with overnight stays
• Work extended hours; sit for extended periods
• Work rotating and on-call schedules, as needed

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a Partner encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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