Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Versapay as a Senior Software Developer and make a huge impact on your career! As part of the Cash App Squad, you will collaborate with talented engineers to deliver high-quality code, streamline processes, and optimize workflow. This role offers a unique opportunity for focused engineers passionate about improving teams. You will implement new features, fix bugs, reduce tech debt, mentor less experienced developers, and contribute to team culture. You will also design solutions, define future architecture, focus on non-functional requirements, and support production. This position requires 5+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails and Javascript, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with RoR and Javascript
• B.S. Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field is prefered but not necessary
• Familiarity with SaaS applications and the FinTech domain are a plus
• An insatiable desire to make the team awesome; a drive to identify and seize opportunities for wins both in the code and in how the team works
• A strong understanding of programming patterns, best practices, long term software maintenance, software architecture, and how to balance best vs. practical
• Work closely with others to achieve team goals. Understand how to give feedback appropriately. Mentor/coach via pair programming if needed
• Ensure that the code is appropriately optimized (avoiding n+1 queries, etc.), appropriately structured, appropriately formatted, that technical decisions made are right, that the code is well-tested, and that we aren't introducing technical debt
• Succeed as a team, fail as a team. Promote a blameless culture. See teammates as equals

Responsibilities

• Implement new features, improve user experiences, and fix bugs in a mature SaaS application
• Review PRs to educate others of best practices, pair program with people who are stuck on a problem, ensure the team is following agreed upon standards
• As needed, work closely with the Implementations Team to turn customer needs/pain points into actionable work with technical designs
• Help create an architectural roadmap to future proof our app and make that plan come to life
• Ensure we have the right level of resiliency, logging, monitoring, security, etc
• Help debug/diagnose/triage emergency production issues (luckily rare)

Preferred Qualifications

• React.js
• Postgres
• Redis
• Elasticsearch + Kibana
• C++ (very minor)
• Datadog
• New Relic
• Loggly
• AWS
• Azure
• Kubernetes
• Semaphore CI

Benefits

• $130,000 - $150,000 a year
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