Staff Engineer, Financial Engines

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Requirements:

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience designing, building and maintaining large scale backend software products and systems.
• Expert at designing and building modular distributed applications to support an extremely rapidly growing customer base.
• Solid understanding of the current landscape of auto-scaling cloud technologies and efficient usage of compute, storage, network and virtualization technologies, preferably AWS.
• Experience delivering large scale backend systems, including ingesting and processing data at significant scale.
• Experience managing elastic workloads using queue/worker and streaming architectures.
• Experience migrating to modern scalable technologies from monolithic systems and databases while maintaining high reliability and availability.

Responsibilities:

• Define forward looking architectures through creation of designs, establishing tradeoffs in cost vs value and gaining buy in from key technical, product and business stakeholders.
• Drive the delivery of prototypes, technical standards, project plans and roadmaps that align with the product vision of our organization and in conjunction with technical leads.
• Coach and mentor senior level engineers in our organization to help raise the bar in innovation, efficiency and technical capability.
• Deliver features and enhancements that improve complex processes and systems to make them more robust, higher performance and require less human intervention.
• Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise.
• Raise the bar of our team’s standards resulting in cleaner, well documented and higher quality code.
• Model and teach key behaviors for owning and delivering systems that are fast, horizontally scalable and reliable.
• Speak up and advocate for forward looking architectures and designs that minimize human intervention while keeping development costs incremental.