Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Legion's mission to transform hourly jobs into rewarding careers. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be a key member of our team, developing and maintaining our high-performance Legion application. You will design, build, and support applications end-to-end, utilizing your expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and related technologies. This role requires a strong background in backend development, SaaS applications, and cloud environments. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, including health benefits, paid time off, parental leave, and equity, in a fully remote or hybrid work environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline
• 3-5 years with backend technologies (Java, Spring Boot, MySQL)
• 3-5 years working on building multi-tenant SaaS applications
• 3-5 years experience with designing and building APIs
• 3+ years delivering software in a cloud-based environment (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Professional software development experience
• Proficiency in Java or C++, and object-oriented design skills
• Application architecture and design patterns
• Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience in the development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications
• Proven ability to lead projects from inception to production
• Strong mastery in communication skills, software architecture design, writing technical documents
• Strong personal work ethic focused on prioritization, being action-oriented, and being driven to achieve positive results

Responsibilities

• Develop features with high quality and on-time
• Thorough understanding of product area
• Assist with feature design along with CTO/Architect
• Develop features keeping in mind best coding practices including performance and user experience
• Own product quality
• Test features before asking QA engineers to test
• Write unit tests
• Work with QA engineers to test the product end-to-end
• Fix incoming bugs daily: Adhere to bug resolution goals and SLA
• Be able to demo the Legion product end-to-end
• Devise robust solutions that enable product engineering teams to rapidly deliver features in a scalable and performant manner
• Design, build, and support applications from End to End
• Make data-driven technical decisions
• Use your deep technical knowledge to debug and solve complex technical problems
• Identify and resolve ambiguities in requirements in consultation with the various stakeholders
• Contribute to the long-term team charter and quarterly planning
• Mentor others on the team, and hold a high bar for code quality and standards by conducting design reviews, code reviews, and providing feedback
• Work with QA team to make the feature as Production ready

Preferred Qualifications

• Proactive and able to command respect through intelligence, hard work, and persistence
• Personal passion and fervor for industry-leading next-generation technology
• Ability to operate in an environment with limited resources
• A great communicator who can distill powerful messages that resonate with customers
• Track record of building positive relationships with peers
• Continuous and thoughtful listener, able to learn from others and leverage input
• Strong personal work ethic focused on high-priority issues; action and results-oriented
• Unquestionable integrity, credibility, and character; demonstrated high moral and ethical behavior
• Proficiency with AWS products and services
• Experience in managing frameworks/systems for ensuring code quality such as Coverity, SonarQub, etc

Benefits

• Health Benefits
• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• Equity
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
• Monthly Lunch on Legion