Senior Staff Backend Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrate excellence resulting in scalable systems and services with the highest quality architecture and design.
• Responsible for designing, building, deploying and maintaining the core Workflow Platform Infrastructure. (e.g., Workflow Platforms - Temporal, Netflix Conductor etc.)
• Responsible for benchmarking the Platform, collecting metrics & publishing results.
• Responsible for measuring & ensuring reliability and uptime of the Platform with 99.995% guarantees.
• Responsible for capacity estimation & provisioning of cluster for different customer workloads.
• Responsible for production incident Monitoring & Alerting for the Platform.
• Detail oriented and hands on engineer who can analyze OSS Platform components and code.
• Dive deep into critical system issues, proactively addressing similar root causes, and raise the bar on Operational Excellence.
• Exposure to one of the SQL or NoSQL database systems. (Cassandra, MySQL etc.).
• Collaborate with other teams to make the platform open and extensible to unlock innumerable opportunities for innovations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience working directly within engineering teams in a fast-moving environment.
• 10+ years of experience in developing and operating backend services and web applications.
• Experience building complex, high-performance, and highly available distributed software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
• Strong familiarity developing with Java and Spring Framework as well as experience in an AWS environment.
• Extensive experience in managing mission critical services with high throughput and low latency.

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid engineering skills as a lead engineer to coach and lead high performing software engineers and keep them motivated.
• Excellent communication skills to shepherd communication with end users, technical & business teams to collect requirements, describe product features, and develop technical designs to achieve business goals.
• Knowledge of Agile software engineering practices & patterns for the full software development lifecycle including coding standards, code reviews, build processes, testing, and live site operations.
• Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional, highly collaborative environment.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of total experience.
• Ability to solve problems through creative thinking and partnerships with other teams.
• Ability to attain challenging targets through goal-setting and personal drive.