Staff Engineer

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📍 Location: Boston, MA; Vancouver, BC; Chicago, IL; and Vancouver, WA

💸 Salary: 180000.0 - 215000.0 USD per year

🔍 Industry: Software Development

🏢 Company: Later👥 1-10 Consumer Electronics iOS Apps Software

🗣️ Languages: English

🪄 Skills: AWSBackend DevelopmentDockerNode.jsSQLCloud ComputingDynamoDBFrontend DevelopmentGitMySQLRuby on RailsTypeScriptReactCI/CDDevOpsMentorship

Requirements:

Strong proficiency in React and Typescript
Strong proficiency in multiple programming languages, specifically: Ruby on Rails and Node.js
Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases, specifically MySQL and DynamoDB
Familiarity with AWS or similar cloud platforms
Experience with Docker (Kubernetes is a plus)

Responsibilities:

Ability to scope, plan, and lead large projects
Experience communicating across teams
Ability to understand, clarify, and refine requirements in a rapidly growing business
Ability to clearly communicate technical and non technical thoughts throughout the organization
Being the go-to person for solving unknown problems and delivering solutions
Continuously improving the code base and upholding a high engineering culture

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