Senior Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join SecurityScorecard's dynamic Technology team as a Senior Staff Software Engineer. You will play a key role in building and maintaining reliable, scalable, and user-friendly products. This involves participating in all phases of the SDLC, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and owning projects end-to-end. You will leverage your technical expertise to simplify complex systems and ensure exceptional functionality. The role requires strong backend development skills, experience with various technologies, and excellent communication and collaboration abilities. This is an opportunity to grow with a rapidly expanding team and contribute to shaping the future of SecurityScorecard's service offering.

Requirements

• A back-end Developer with 7+ years of professional experience in agile development environments, specifically in SaaS companies
• Track of record building complex and scalable products with significant usage and life span
• Advanced experience in backend development, including Node.js, Python and building/maintaining REST APIs
• Skilled with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL or similar systems
• Familiarity with containerization and cloud technologies such as AWS, Docker, and Terraform
• Demonstrated ability to implement modern web interfaces, ensuring usability and performance optimization
• Strong understanding of software design principles, including DRY, YAGNI, and clean code practices

Responsibilities

• Participate in all phases of the SDLC: design, development, deployment, monitoring, optimizing, and maintenance
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into technical solutions, estimate complexity, and address blockers
• Own end-to-end delivery of projects, ensuring performance and stability across infrastructure, backend, and frontend systems
• Write clean, secure, testable, and maintainable code using industry best practices
• Lead code reviews, promote design patterns, and ensure reusable and readable code
• Be familiar with test driven development
• Establish the technical design / architecture of projects from the ground up, including database and API design
• Monitor and analyze performance metrics to identify and implement system improvements
• Document processes, write technical documentation, and contribute to standards that benefit the team and organization
• Defend technical proposals and points of view to the company and help shape and drive the technology strategy
• When involved in a project, help translating requirements, estimate, solve or escalate blockers/points worth of discussion
• Have ownership of entire projects, being able to understand and answer about all of its aspects (infrastructure and back-end)
• Delivers code that encourages the team in terms of best practices, readability, design patterns, reusability and testing
• When shipping and maintaining, keep an eye on data to raise if anything needs to be refactored or improved

Preferred Qualifications

• Bonus points if you have experience with Clickhouse
• Appreciates standards across projects and writes documentation
• Able to present and defend your technical point of view
• Can estimate project complexity based on early project documentation and conversations
• Can clearly articulate technical problems and solutions in written and verbal communication
• Experience actively mentoring junior team members
• Feels comfortable representing their discipline in higher-level project conversations
• Understands cross-functional issues and is able to effectively communicate with other departments