Staff Software Developer

Role Overview

Core Responsibilities

• Create customer-facing products, testing artifacts, and development tooling.
• Apply software development lifecycle practices and operational excellence.
• Evaluate newer technologies and concepts related to engineering best practices.
• Communicate technical decisions through design diagrams and review meetings.
• Mentor peers and provide technical guidance across relevant technologies.
• Monitor code health, infrastructure health, and application performance.

Qualifications and Experience

• Have 10 or more years of software development experience focused on application development.
• Have 10 or more years of experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Express, and React, Vue, or Angular.
• Have working knowledge of Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Redis.
• Have expert-level experience with Fastly, AWS, Serverless/SAM, CloudFormation, Docker, Jenkins, and Git.
• Have hands-on familiarity with client- and server-side technologies, data structures, and algorithms.
• Have built medium- to large-scale mission-critical, high-availability production systems.
• Demonstrate strong design skills and the ability to explain difficult technical concepts clearly.
• Have experience monitoring code health, infrastructure health, and application performance.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in e-commerce, affiliate platforms, or consumer media is preferred.
• Experience with Kanban or Scrum teams and project-management tools is preferred.
• Experience with interviewing and talent acquisition is preferred.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and practices supporting continuous deployment and incremental delivery is preferred.
• Strong system engineering knowledge, including database design, application architecture, operating systems, and networking, is preferred.
• Professional use of functional-style concepts or non-procedural programming is a plus.
• Two years of object-oriented JavaScript experience is a plus.

Compensation

• The disclosed base salary range is $94,200 to $150,700 per year.
• Additional compensation may include bonuses, incentives, awards, and employee benefits.