Responsibilities
- Collaborating closely with geographically distributed engineering teams to design and implement scalable and robust software solutions.
- Enhancing the existing platform to increase the amount of business functionality driven by end-user configuration
- Enhancing system automation (scale, resiliency, deployment)
- Maintaining, enhancing and creating common platform components and libs (AWS, Go, Python, Erlang, Kafka)
- Working with technical and non-technical stakeholders from the wider organization to understand and drive requirements and improvements across the platform
- Building on our CloudNative platform, enabling more use of AWS technology to aid in speeding up delivery, scale, and resiliency
- Building on our observability tooling and infrastructure to better understand the capabilities of our systems
- Growing the engineering community, building on the existing process and practices
- Lead initiatives and tasks and driving them to completion
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance team productivity and efficiency.
Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years of hands on experience in a large scale production environment.
- Has experience engineering high-quality, highly scalable software in any object-oriented or Functional language
- A willingness to learn new technologies (we are working with Golang, Python, Erlang, Elixir)
- A talent for clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing, and continuous deployment
- A passion for working in the cloud and automation
- Experience working with distributed systems
- Experience building and improving upon observability
- A passion for creating user-centric, data driven solutions
Nice to Have
- Experience in AWS (Cloudformation, MSK, S3, Cognito etc..)
- An interest in Functional Programming
- Knowledge of Kafka
- Front end development experience in React/Vue.js
