Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Posted 3 months agoViewed

💎 Seniority level: Staff, 7+ years of software engineering experience, 3+ years of technical leadership experience

📍 Location: Canada

🔍 Industry: Fintech, SMB software, Consumer products

⏳ Experience: 7+ years of software engineering experience, 3+ years of technical leadership experience

🪄 Skills: Backend DevelopmentLeadershipDesign PatternsDocumentationMentorship

7+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years of technical leadership experience.
Deep experience with backend development and distributed systems; payments experience is a plus.
Excellent product instincts focusing on user needs and business context, experience in shipping consumer-facing products.
Effective communicator, capable of coordinating across teams to ship critical products.
Architectural and system design expertise in developing highly scalable distributed systems.

Provide technical leadership to a distributed engineering team to design new and enhance existing product offerings.
Advise the leadership team on key technology and product roadmap considerations.
Own problems from end to end, considering business impact, reliability, operability, and security.
Collaborate with Product Managers to prioritize roadmap initiatives and participate in product ideation.
Drive engineering standards forward and mentor newer team members.

Posted about 2 months ago

📍 US and Canada

🧭 Full-Time

💸 157500.0 - 232000.0 USD per year

🔍 Technology / Mobile applications and tracking devices

🏢 Company: Life360👥 251-500💰 $33,038,258 Post-IPO Equity about 2 years ago🫂 Last layoff about 2 years agoAndroid Family Apps Mobile Apps Mobile

🔧 Requirements

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, related field or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of experience programming in Java, PHP, Python, or other formal programming languages.
Expert level experience managing medium to large scale deployments on AWS (~5000 instances, 50+ accounts).
Expert level experience with Infrastructure as Code tools: Terraform, CloudFormation; config management/provisioning tools: Ansible, Chef, etc.
Strong Kubernetes experience deploying and running at scale (10k+ containers).
Strong Build / Automation / CI/CD experience.
Proficient in multi-threaded design and implementation.
Database knowledge is a plus.
Excellent interpersonal skills with a highly collaborative working style.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ideally based out of the North America East Coast time zone.

💡 Responsibilities

Providing technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineers across multiple teams.
Partnering with the Engineering Manager to interview and onboard top talent for the EMEA-based teams.
Collaborating closely with Engineering Managers, Director of Engineering, and Staff Engineers to define and execute the technical direction for various projects.
Ensuring effective communication and collaboration between multiple teams across regions and time zones.
Being hands-on with writing code where needed to support teams and projects.

AWSPHPPythonJavaKubernetesCI/CDTerraformMentorshipAnsible

Posted about 2 months ago

Posted 2 months ago

📍 Canada, Brazil

🧭 Full-Time

💸 211500.0 CAD per year

🔍 Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology

🔧 Requirements

At least 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
Strong understanding of high-quality code and effective software engineering processes.
Execution-focused mindset, capable of navigating through ambiguity and delivering results.
Ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with short-term planning.
Experience in creating, delivering, and operating multi-tenanted, distributed systems at scale.
Experience in delivering full-stack projects.
Willingness to manage engineers and transition into a management role.

💡 Responsibilities

Lead and grow a team of 7-8 engineers to deliver features specific to the AMER markets.
Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with technical expertise.
Mentor and train team members on design techniques and coding standards.
Deep dive into the Coinbase system to provide solutions for launching.
Define and execute a roadmap based on opportunities raised by the team and stakeholders.
Identify gaps in current experience by analyzing Coinbase and competitors' apps.
Work closely with various teams to identify feature opportunities.
Address customer experience issues and drive solutions.
Oversee the design of scalable, reliable, and reusable solutions.
Encourage a proactive, data-driven attitude and energize team interactions.

Backend DevelopmentLeadershipProject ManagementBlockchainFull Stack DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Posted 2 months ago