Software Development Engineer- L4

Summary

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Recommends product revisions or enhancements based on user feedback.
• Prepares reports on engineering project specifications, activities, or status.
• Confers with product managers to obtain information on limitations or capabilities.
• Works as part of a development team in the design of software applications.
• Handles complex issues and designs new subsystems.
• May act as technical lead on projects or initiatives.
• Collaborates across multiple engineering teams in the design of new features and functionality.
• Conducts requirement analysis, documents technical specifications, and writes, reviews, and debugs code.
• Develops and maintains documentation or user manuals.
• Performs work with a high degree of latitude.
• Possesses expert knowledge of subject matter.
• Provides leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to fellow engineers.
• Drives team development of engineering best practices and keeps up to date with latest trends.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills & Requirements

• Solid, hands-on Go development experience or other systems languages.
• Practical knowledge of microservices and event driven design patterns.
• Ability to debug distributed systems and scale them.
• Experience designing and implementing REST web services with loose coupling.
• Comfortable with reading and writing SQL, navigating Postgres DBs.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree and 4+ years of industry experience, or 6-8 years of industry experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Deep knowledge of at least one high-level programming language.
• Knowledge of computer systems and advanced network protocols.
• Technical expertise.
• Able to debug complex, distributed systems.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Detail-oriented.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

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