Senior Software Engineer (Capacity and Cloud Economics Engineering)

Posted 12 days agoViewed

💎 Seniority level: Senior, 4+ years

📍 Location: United States

💸 Salary: 150000.0 - 200000.0 USD per year

🔍 Industry: Fintech / Credit

🗣️ Languages: English

⏳ Experience: 4+ years

🪄 Skills: AWSBackend DevelopmentPythonKotlinKubernetesMySQL

4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin.
Experience developing highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
Experience with load testing frameworks like Locust.
Experience in defining a technical plan for significant feature delivery.
Proficient in making significant changes in large code bases.
Demonstrated ownership of personal growth and seeking feedback.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Owning and delivering quarterly goals for the team.
Leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
Collaborating with product management, design & analytics throughout the product development lifecycle.
Identifying and advocating for project, process, technology or business issues.
Supporting operations and availability by creating and monitoring metrics.
Setting and improving code review and design standards.
Developing talent on the team through feedback and guidance.
Assisting with right-sizing compute and data workloads.
Collaborating with other infrastructure and product teams.

Posted 19 days ago

📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 150000 - 200000 USD per year

🔍 Financial Technology

🏢 Company: Affirm👥 1001-5000💰 Post-IPO Equity almost 4 years ago🫂 Last layoff almost 2 years agoLending Financial Services Payments FinTech

4+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
Experience with highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
Proficient in load testing frameworks like Locust or similar.
Ability to define a technical plan for significant feature delivery with elegant design.
Capable of making changes in a large code base safely and efficiently.
Proactive in seeking feedback and taking ownership of personal growth.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Own and deliver quarterly goals for the team while leading engineers through ambiguity.
Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design, and analytics.
Proactively identify and advocate for project, process, technology, or business issues and lead in their resolution.
Create and monitor metrics to support operations and availability; escalate issues when needed.
Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting and improving code review and design standards.
Develop talent on the team through feedback and guidance.
Assist with optimizing compute and data workloads for cost-effectiveness.
Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to provide technical guidance.

AWSPythonKotlinKubernetesMySQLProduct ManagementProduct DevelopmentCommunication SkillsCollaborationWritten communication

Posted 19 days ago

Posted 2 months ago

📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 $150,000 - $200,000 per year

🔍 Financial Technology

You have 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
You are experienced in designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
You have experience with load testing frameworks like Locust or a similar framework.
You have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
You are proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.
Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.
You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting 'keep the lights on' & on-call efforts.
You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
You will assist with right-sizing compute and data workloads to make our infrastructure highly available and cost-effective.
You will collaborate with other infrastructure and product teams, providing technical guidance on capacity tuning to optimize production performance, and enabling effective performance testing.

AWSPythonKotlinKubernetesMySQLProduct ManagementProduct DevelopmentCommunication SkillsCollaboration

Posted 2 months ago

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