Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Expel's Device Detections and Tasking team and contribute to building a next-generation data ingestion and detection pipeline. You will participate in stakeholder discussions, implement tasks in the software development lifecycle, and collaborate with your team. Responsibilities include designing and architecting data-centric software solutions, building and optimizing large datasets, and writing tests. The ideal candidate possesses experience with data pipelines, database architecture, microservices, and front-end frameworks. Expel offers a competitive salary, unlimited PTO, flexible work location, parental leave, and excellent health benefits.

Requirements

• Experience with architecting and maintaining data-centric software solutions and data pipelines using message bus / queue frameworks (e.g. PubSub)
• Experience with database architecture (e.g. PostGres, Cloud SQL, BigQuery or Bigtable) and orchestration, including deep understanding of SQL and/or NoSQL
• Experience with architecting and maintaining microservices (e.g. Go, Node, Python) & APIs (e.g. REST, RPC, HTTP, JSON)
• Experience with building and optimizing large datasets (e.g. Spark, Iceberg)
• Experience writing tests at different levels (unit, integration, smoke, etc.)
• Familiarity with running systems and using services of a cloud platform (e.g. Google Cloud, AWS, Azure)
• Experience with one or more front-end frameworks (e.g. React, Ember, Angular)
• Ability to code in a readable, reliable, extensible, compiled and well scripted manner in multiple programming languages. Can easily identify patterns and incorporate leading practices
• Working knowledge of logging, monitoring, query, analysis, and metrics (e.g. Google Logs, Loggly, Splunk, Stackdriver, and/or Datadog)

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in stakeholder discussions to understand business needs
• Identify, prioritize and implement tasks in the software development lifecycle, in conjunction with the product owner to deliver on business goals
• Exemplify structured software development, testing, and deployment behaviors
• Collaborate respectfully as part of your immediate team and with adjacent teams through pair programming, design sessions, and reviewing pull requests
• Contribute to defining project level requirements based on your experience in software development and your understanding of the customer and business needs
• Produce high-quality, modular, and extensible software designs and architecture with occasional oversight
• Set an example for balancing high quality, technical excellence with focused, timely execution through planning, pair programming, and code reviews
• Provide guidance and mentorship to less experienced engineers
• Research and evaluate new technologies in support of business, technical, or delivery needs
• Present, demo, or author blogs, for technical and non-technical audiences, as required internally and externally
• Participate in your team’s 24x7 support for the applications you build and run
• Establish and encourage a culture of belonging on your team

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency with React
• An eagerness to learn more about data-intensive systems (in Go)

Benefits

• Bonus eligibility
• Equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Work location flexibility
• Up to 24 weeks of parental leave
• Really excellent health benefits