Software Development Engineer, Ring Neighbors

About the role

The Software Development Engineer will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, design, roadmap and development of core services at Ring. This role involves design, architecture, implementation, and operation of the large-scale cloud systems that make our neighborhood safer.

Responsibilities

• Design, architecture, implementation, and operation of large-scale cloud systems
• Autonomously deliver the technical direction of core services and feature roadmap
• Work with extraordinary talent and have the opportunity to hire and shape the team
• Own services built primarily in Go and Python, utilizing Lambdas in an event-driven architecture
• Deliver backend services and web tools used by internal customers (Neighbors Administrators, and Neighbors News Team)
• Leverage a rich set of AWS services including S3, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, API Gateway, Cloudwatch, Elastic Search, Lambda, Cloud Auth, Redshift, Athena, and Amazon’s standard Builder Hub Tools
• Contribute to the development of machine learning components and other innovative solutions

Requirements

• Strong foundation in software development, design patterns, and cloud computing
• Experience working with large-scale cloud systems, understanding how to architect and build them
• Highly effective and thrive in a dynamic environment with multiple, changing priorities
• Knows what is important when shipping products to customers and has been through the process from start to finish
• Promotes robust and maintainable code, clear documentation, and delivers high-quality work on tight schedules
• Comfortable with proactive outward communication and technical leadership and never shy away from a challenge

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent