Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Sezzle as a Principal Software Engineer and contribute to a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team. You will work with a highly-motivated team to tackle interesting and challenging problems across multiple areas of the organization, designing, developing, and delivering new features. This role offers abundant prospects for career advancement and the opportunity to mentor other team members. You will work closely with stakeholders from Product, Support, and the business, partnering with other engineering teams to provide high-quality, scalable, and innovative solutions to internal and customer problems.

Requirements

• At least 12 years of full-stack software engineering experience
• Experience bringing new ideas and building consensus on the path forward
• Experience with building and serving REST APIs using Go and Java Python or a similar language
• Experience working in a distributed, cloud-based architecture, with either design patterns like transactional outboxes, or queuing tools like RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka
• BS in Computer Science or similar degree, or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

• Design software applications and features in Golang, React, React Native
• Help build out a distributed architecture, creating solutions that work within it, maintaining consistency while scaling highly
• Coordinate with internal company stakeholders to design market winning products
• Develop and collect metrics to drive continuous improvement of existing products
• Deliver high quality features which can be tested and adheres to reporting standards
• As needed, lead cross-team efforts to bring a specific project to market
• Mentor other engineering teammates to help elevate their experience and knowledge

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SQL based RDMS through an ORM tool
• Comfortable using observability platforms like Prometheus, or vendor solutions like NewRelic or Datadog to instrument your code for production monitoring and alerting
• DevOps experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with containerized micro-service architecture deployed with Kubernetes on AWS
• Demonstrated history of delivering commercial APIs and web applications
• A clear record of getting products to market and prioritizing solutions and improvements based on stakeholder/customer feedback