Senior Software Engineer I

Summary

Join Guild, a company committed to expanding opportunities, as a Senior Software Engineer I. You will play a key role in scaling onboarding and data ingestion processes, building features to enhance client integration processing. This position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and a focus on developing high-quality, scalable software. The ideal candidate possesses strong technical skills in Python, TypeScript, React, and AWS services, along with experience in ETL systems and microservice environments. Guild offers a competitive compensation package and a range of benefits, including health care, retirement plan, paid time off, parental leave, and wellness programs.

Requirements

• Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
• Experience with AWS services (Lambda, Serrverless, Glue, API Gateway, CDK/AWS IaC)
• Knowledge of ETL best practices, PySpark, OpenAPI Spec, GraphQL
• Familiarity with Integration engineering & IPaaS tools such as SnapLogic

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly scalable and maintainable ETL systems for SFTP and API-based integrations, and beyond
• Ensure simplicity and flexibility in system architecture
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineers, product managers, designers, internal operations staff, and customer technical teams
• Craft clean, thoroughly tested, and reusable code to develop high-quality software that scales with our business group
• Engage senior/staff engineers to design resilient, decoupled solutions based on domain
• Guide the team in identifying, understanding, and refining the product’s requirements
• Spec solutions, test and resolve issues, and deploy quality software to production
• Improve processes & tools to enhance dev speed, deployment, quality, and security
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including daily standups, planning, and retrospectives
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation 24/7 monitoring production system alerts & triage
• Work with the product team to ensure project plans, stories, and estimates are accurate
• Maintain existing Guild software and integrate multiple internal services and APIs
• Vested interest in issue resolution & sustainability of the team's software products
• Participate in support, data quality issue resolution, and root cause analysis
• Contribute to test automation and quality controls

Preferred Qualifications

• Production experience in a AWS micro-service environment
• Ability to write simple, clean, and maintainable code
• Strong opinions, loosely held
• Willingness to take calculated risks and bring vision to your team and Guild
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement
• A passion for Guild’s mission & long-term vision

Benefits

• Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
• Access to a 401k to help save for the future
• Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
• 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
• Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits
• Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
• Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth