Staff Software Engineer - Technical Lead

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Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in building web-based or SaaS products & solutions
• Experience with technical leadership; providing direction and guidance to a team of engineers
• Experienced in building & maintaining a high load RESTful or GraphQL API
• Experienced in various software development philosophies & methodologies
• Proficient in C# and the .NET framework, or similar object-oriented programming languages such as Java, Python, or C++
• Strong understanding of object-oriented principles and design patterns, with the ability to apply these concepts effectively across languages and frameworks
• Experienced in relational database technologies (MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL, etc.)
• Experienced in supporting high availability environments, setting up effective monitoring & alerting systems
• Experience leveraging AWS services and CI/CD is a strong plus.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker or Kubernetes, and managing apps in containerized environments is a plus
• Strong critical thinking skills & attention to details
• Strong communication skills
• Humble, collaborative, and self-aware

Responsibilities:

• Providing technical leadership within the API team as well as the larger engineering org
• Owning and driving the planning & implementation of new product features
• Creating technical design documentation
• Working closely with Product leads on vetting requirements
• Evolving our architecture to improve scalability
• Reviewing pull requests and safeguarding code quality
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to break down and plan large features
• Mentor team members about code maintainability, security and efficiency
• Identify future technical problems and bottlenecks that need to be addressed