Remote Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join GlossGenius, a fintech, SMB software, and consumer company, as a Staff Software Engineer to lead technical teams, advise leadership on key technology considerations, and drive engineering standards forward.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, 3+ years of technical leadership experience
• You have a depth of experience with backend development and have experience with distributed systems environments. Payments related experience is a plus!
• You have excellent product instincts, think about our users first, and can make decisions rooted in the business context. Experience shipping consumer-facing products from 0 to 1, which is a plus!
• You can effectively communicate complex concepts and have experience coordinating across teams to ship critical products
• You have experience with building a long-term roadmap and technical vision to tackle complex user problems, plus an ability to break it down for other team members to execute on
• You have architectural and system design expertise in developing highly scalable and performant distributed systems
• You thrive in a collaborative environment involving different functions, stakeholders, and subject matter experts
• You're a continuous learner - learn and grow constantly to feed your passion for self-improvement and make those around you better
• You're comfortable picking up new technologies (currently our team works with Ruby and Kotlin on the Backend and with React and React Native for Frontend Development; no previous experience is needed, but an openness to learn is a must.)

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to a distributed engineering team to design new and enhance existing GlossGenius product offerings
• Advise the GlossGenius leadership team on key technology and product roadmap considerations
• Own problems from end to end, managing complexity, and engaging directly with stakeholders to think through everything from business impact to reliability and operability, to security; always approaching situations with a bias to action
• Work with Product Managers to prioritize roadmap initiatives and be involved in the product ideation process
• Continually drive our engineering standards (code reuse, documentation, testing, etc.) and levels of service forward
• Take high-level business requirements and develop the technical details behind them. Collaborate with Product Managers to write epics and projects and ensure they’re appropriately broken down and prioritized, well understood by the team, and sized correctly for continuous deployment
• Architect tools, services, and systems using well-accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling
• Uphold GlossGenius’s high standards for engineering and product quality and mentor newer team members to do the same
• Technical mentor to the growing engineering team

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums covered by GG
• Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
• Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
• Home office support
• Team Bonding opportunities - as a distributed team, being able to build meaningful bonds both virtually and in person is incredibly important to us! We are constantly evaluating how we accomplish this and currently, teams are given opportunities to gather in person throughout the year