Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Legion's mission to transform hourly jobs into high-quality employment opportunities. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be part of a team developing and maintaining the Legion application, a high-performance Java enterprise application. You will be responsible for developing features, ensuring product quality, collaborating with QA engineers, and resolving bugs. The role requires proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and related technologies, along with experience in building multi-tenant SaaS applications and cloud-based environments. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills. Legion offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including health benefits, paid time off, parental leave, and equity.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline
• 5-6 years with backend technologies (Java, Spring Boot, MySQL)
• 5-6 years working on building multi-tenant SaaS applications
• 5-6 years experience with designing and building APIs
• 5+ 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