Job responsibilities
- Regularly provide technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Develop secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Drive decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
- Actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Influence peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
- Add to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, 2+ years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced experiencedeveloping API driven systems for public/private cloud
- Polyglot programming skills with Java and other languages like Golang and Python. Expert level skills with distributed databases, NoSQL, and performance tuning.
- Experience with Kubernetes (cluster, scheduling, ingress, stateful-sets among other things), Docker and cloud native technologies and paradigms like Service Mesh, side-car proxy, Distributed Tracing and Metrics
- Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Practical cloud native experience
- Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- A strong bent for the “platform” software.
- Strong CS fundamentals, data structures & algorithms, networking, system thinking
- Great work ethics and can work with ambiguity and deliver concrete outcomes