Staff Software Engineer - Emerging Tech

Company Description

About A Place for Mom:

A Place for Mom is the leading online resource connecting families searching for senior care with a team of expert advisors providing insight-driven, personalized solutions. As the nation’s largest senior care advisory service, A Place for Mom helps hundreds of thousands of families every year navigate the complexities of finding the right senior care solution for their loved ones across home care, independent living, memory care, assisted living, and more. Established in 2000 as a family business, A Place for Mom employees are deeply committed to the company mission to enable caregivers to make the best senior care decisions. A Place for Mom fosters, cultivates, and preserves a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Our employees live the company values every day:

• Mission Over Me: We find purpose in helping caregivers and their senior loved ones while approaching our work with empathy.
• Do Hard Things: We are energized by solving challenging problems and see it as an opportunity to grow.
• Drive Outcomes as a Team: We each own the outcome but can only achieve it as a team.
• Win The Right Way: We see organizational integrity as the foundation for how we operate.
• Embrace Change: We innovate and constantly evolve.

Job Description

Responsibilities

We are looking for a talented Staff Software Engineer who will utilize a modern technology stack to update and maintain our internal core services. This role entails developing and acting as team lead across an engineering team composed of full stack developers, along with QA engineers.

This position reports to the Director of Engineering - Emerging Technologies. You will leverage your expertise in technology to meticulously select the latest technologies, architectural frameworks, and design patterns for implementation. Your role will involve providing visionary leadership and architectural direction along with the principal engineer to a dedicated team of engineers tasked with developing core services technologies that support our business.  You will also take a role in the development of those platforms.

Who you are:

The ideal candidate is a hands-on, outcome-oriented, technology-focused engineer with extensive experience in acting as team lead - helping to drive designing, building, and supporting modern backend technologies. Additionally, they demonstrate a strong partnership with product teams, ensuring alignment between technological innovation and product development goals.

What you will do:

• Lead mission-critical projects and deliver platform capabilities end-to-end with high quality
• Have clear ownership of one or many products or platform spaces
• Get exposure to the partners and customers in different business domains, who will help provide feedback for your product space
• Build and grow your engineering skills in different challenging areas and solve hard technical problems
• Influence architecture, technology selections, and trends of the whole company
• Collaborate with team and peers to design complex applications, peer review code, and suggest optimization
• Enable continuous deployment by championing quality engineering practices: linting, unit testing, e2e testing, pipeline automation
• Collaborate with and influence product teams to build and maintain design system standards, processes, and adoption
• Create reference implementations for the purpose of mentoring and leading more junior staff (when required)
• Help define engineering best practices and provide technical mentorship
• Investigate and resolve any production issues from end user (UI) to service layer and work to prevent them
• Work with project managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and high quality

Qualifications

Required Skills and Competencies:

• 10+ years of engineering experience
• Strong communication and “storytelling” skills – ability to articulate a vision or concept in simple terms to a broad audience at every level.
• Role model and champion modern ways-of-working such as Agile, DevOps and related practices, actively participate in an engineering community.
• Thrive in fast-paced environments while architecting dependable solutions that scale effectively
• Expert with .NET from legacy Framework to Core
• You have a strong passion for new technologies and driving innovation
• Delivery of high quality & production ready code is high priority for you
• Learning technologies and expanding your skillset is always on your mind
• Demonstrates competent problem-solving skills (e.g. debugging, analysis and instrumentation) in a context beyond code they've written
• You can take ownership of a large initiative and see it to completion
• Able to step back from a task and reassess size and complexity when appropriate

Additional Information

Compensation

• Base Salary: $150,000 to $160,000 + 20% Bonus
• Benefits:
  • 401(k) plus match
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Paid Time Off

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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