Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Sezzle as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to the development of innovative financial technology. This role involves designing, developing, and delivering new features using Golang and React within a distributed architecture. You will collaborate with stakeholders, mentor team members, and ensure high-quality, scalable solutions. The ideal candidate possesses 7+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, expertise in building REST APIs, and experience with cloud-based architectures. This is a backend-focused role with opportunities for career advancement and a competitive salary range of $7,000-$11,600 USD per month.

Requirements

• At least 7 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 and React
• 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 small development teams to bring a 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