We are looking for an experienced Principal Software Engineer to join our team and help us develop our analytics platform. You will design, develop, and maintain the backend services that process information collected by our JavaScript and Mobile SDKs. You have experience in Apache Flink and building applications that use AWS native services such as AWS Lambda and DocumentDB, and knowledge of event-driven architecture concepts.
You will report to the Director of Software Engineering.
You'll have the opportunity to:
- Design features that are easy to use, reliable, and efficient.
- Collaborate with teams to understand requirements.
- Write automated tests and conduct code reviews to maintain the quality of our codebase.
- Be part of our on-call rotation, debug and troubleshoot issues that arise in our services, and resolve them promptly.
- Keep up-to-date with the latest AWS technologies and identify where performance improvements and cost savings can be found.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior developers on the team and integration engineers working with customers.
- Join calls with our customers' developers to understand issues and guide the customer to resolution.
- Work directly with our Data Science team to ensure the correctness of events captured for analysis and collaborate to expand our capabilities across new use cases.
Your background:
- 10+ years of professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of experience developing AWS event-driven architecture applications.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.
- Knowledge of Java, Python, and JavaScript.
- Knowledge of AWS cloud fundamentals, platform architecture, and programming languages.
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs and JSON.
- Experience with automated testing frameworks.
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience developing event-driven architecture applications using Apache Flink.
- Familiarity with Github, Github Actions, Terraform Cloud, Jira, and Agile methodologies.
Benefits/Perks:
- Great compensation package and bonus plan
- Core benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K
- Flexible work environment, ability to work remotely, hybrid, or in-office
- Flexible time off, including volunteer time off, vacation, sick, and 12-paid holidays
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