Staff Software Engineer - Admin

About the role

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to build new and maintain existing products in GoGuardian’s Safety product suite. This role involves contributing to the full software development lifecycle, collaborating with a cross-functional team, and leading application architecture decisions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team toward feature delivery
• Working both independently and in pairs/groups with others of varying skill levels
• Leverage strong problem solving skills to apply existing knowledge and experience to new problems and creative solutions
• Write production-grade code for well-scoped features with the help of code reviewers
• Understand, implement and contribute to GoGuardian’s best practices, including style guides, standards, code reviews, documentation management, and operational workflows
• Be generally available to work during standard working hours and to participate in an on-call rotation for production application support
• Work closely with Product Management to create new features and products
• Lead the application architecture decision making process
• Champion AI adoption across engineering by defining best practices and driving effective use of AI in development workflows to improve velocity, quality, and customer impact
• Continuously experiment with and operationalize AI tools to accelerate innovation, improve productivity, mentor teams on AI usage, and help shape the company’s AI engineering culture and strategy
• Take part in short and long term planning
• Build & operate AWS infrastructure
• Monitor and track performance and reliability of our services and software to meet promised SLA
• Mentor other developers to increase the overall performance of the team

Requirements

• 8+ years experience as a software engineer of SaaS applications and or working on customer facing products
• Competency in one or more languages. Experience with Go, Javascript, React, and MySQL preferred
• Competency with Kafka or other Event Sourcing Systems
• Direct involvement in shipping at least one production application / product
• Experience with monitoring, performance optimization, technical documentation, and unit / integration testing
• Up-to-date knowledge of full stack web development languages, libraries, and technology
• Writes production-grade code for well-scoped features; integrating feedback from code reviewers
• Learns quickly, applies existing knowledge to new challenges and is building proficiency in relevant technical skills
• Confident in making technical decisions and explaining the reasoning behind them
• Can drive automation adoption and enhancement in areas such as Test Automation, Github Runners, CI/CD platforms, and other automation platforms
• Can drive change beyond the scope of the team

Qualifications

• An interest in Machine Learning and AI technology

Skills

• Competency in one or more languages. Experience with Go, Javascript, React, and MySQL preferred
• Competency with Kafka or other Event Sourcing Systems
• Direct involvement in shipping at least one production application / product
• Experience with monitoring, performance optimization, technical documentation, and unit / integration testing
• Up-to-date knowledge of full stack web development languages, libraries, and technology
• Writes production-grade code for well-scoped features; integrating feedback from code reviewers
• Learns quickly, applies existing knowledge to new challenges and is building proficiency in relevant technical skills
• Confident in making technical decisions and explaining the reasoning behind them
• Can drive automation adoption and enhancement in areas such as Test Automation, Github Runners, CI/CD platforms, and other automation platforms
• Can drive change beyond the scope of the team

Benefits

Competitive pay, complete health insurance, 401(k) matching, and an employee equity plan.
Flexible time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, and a paid year-end holiday break.
A robust catalog of benefits that support your professional growth and personal wellbeing, including work from home funds, fertility & adoption reimbursement, and more…
Plus the intangible
A varied and challenging role in an innovative, global company.
Supportive, driven colleagues who have your back and share your passion.

Pay

The typical base salary range for this position is $190,000 - $220,000 per year. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire base pay for this position and your pay will be determined by a variety of factors, including your primary work location, skills, qualifications and experience.

Schedule

The role is typically remote, but may require occasional travel to the San Francisco Bay Area for meetings and events.