Senior Staff Engineer - (Software Development/Microservices) - REMOTE

Position Description 
 
Our Senior Staff Engineer works with our Staff and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate is a self-starter that has deep technical expertise in their domain. 
 
Position Responsibilities 
 
As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will: 

• Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise 

• Collaborate across team members and across the tech organization to solve our toughest problems 

• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains 

• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions 

• Utilize programming languages like C#, Java, Python or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services 

• Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives 

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams 

• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans 

• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning 
   
   

Qualifications 
 

• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap 

• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production 

• Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development, with a strong focus on SAAS products / platforms.  

• Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using C#, gRPC, Python, Django, Kafka, and Apache Spark, with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures.  

• Proven experience designing and delivering highly-resilient event-driven and messaging based solutions at scale with minimal latency.  

• Deep hands-on experience in building complex SAAS systems in large scale business focused systems, with great knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes 

• Fluency and Specialization with at least two modern OOP languages such as C#, Java, C++, or Python including object-oriented design 

• Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundation with No-SQL databases like Cosmos, Cassandra. Apache Trino etc.  

• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms 

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like …