Principal Software Engineer, Web

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Requirements:

• 10+ years of software development in web development.
• Experience with architecting and designing highly available/fault-tolerant, transaction processing systems and operating complex services running in the cloud.
• Strong leadership experience. Leading meetings, presenting, and serving as the technical go-to person and cross-functional leader.
• A mindset focused on seizing opportunities and moving with urgency.
• Dedication to fierce prioritization and operational excellence.
• Adaptability to a dynamic, fast-moving environment.
• A growth mindset and openness to feedback.
• Deep understanding of web and network stack with experience optimizing every part of the application.
• Deep experience in monitoring and improving performance and functionality of end-to-end customer and web experiences.
• Experience integrating 3rd party APIs (REST, OAuth, JSONP).
• Experience with developing and deploying AWS tools and systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Highly quantitative, have great judgment, and passion for delivering tremendous business value in an uncharted domain through a scalable system that anticipates significant growth across multiple dimensions.
• Inventive, and have a pragmatic and iterative approach to delivering high-quality software.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities:

• You'll be responsible for the technical direction, strategy and health of our web platforms.
• You'll ensure that our technology can deliver on the business/product requirements necessary to make LTK successful at a rapid pace and scale.
• Develop strong partnerships with product teams to understand, and proactively address, future technology needs and current developer pain points.
• Champion and drive large-scale, cross-functional initiatives that improve the web platform.
• Act as the ultimate 'customer representative' for web engineers, including representing needs to leadership and prioritizing projects on the platform teams that ensure high-quality features and a world-class developer experience.
• Scale your leadership through both direct mentorship and via best practices, processes, training, and tools.
• Ensure solid technical plans are in place for projects within web via direct review or delegation.
• Be the technical point of contact for decisions that impact the whole web platform and for cross-functional partners like product, marketing, and recruiting.
• Technical subject matter expert, who mentors fellow engineers, demonstrates technical experience and leads teams in solving challenging problems.