Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join G-P, a leading SaaS-based Global Growth Platform™, and drive the technical evolution of our best-in-class cloud platform. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement scalable and secure solutions. Lead agile teams, providing technical expertise and mentoring junior engineers. Leverage your extensive experience in architecting and developing enterprise-level services to contribute to a high-growth environment. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, fostering a diverse and inclusive remote-first culture. Your work will have a global impact, shaping the future of work.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in architecting and developing highly scalable enterprise level services, platforms or products
• Extensive experience in building large scale distributed enterprise applications in geographically distributed teams
• Deep knowledge of backend stack with knowledge in most or all of the following: Java, Node.js, Python, Redis, Golang
• Knowledge of and experience choosing between SQL and NoSQL database technologies such as MySQL/PostgreSQL and MongoDB/DynamoDB
• Excellent communication skills and experience documenting and delivering technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical evolution of our best-in-class SaaS cloud platform taking the lead on initiatives including technical design, prototyping, building, and overseeing execution towards agreed goals
• Collaborate with product managers, technical architects, engineering management, cloud engineers and other SMEs across the business to understand their requirements and suggest appropriate solutions to achieve the required features
• Take a technical lead role in one or more agile teams providing hands-on technical expertise, ensuring technical progress against plans while safeguarding functionality, security, scalability, and performance
• Deliver solutions in a cloud-managed and serverless-first platform ecosystem
• Ensure consistent use of shared platform components
• Design and develop reusable libraries and APIs
• Contribute to best practice for backend and frontend application development via the Well Architected Framework and its pillars
• Develop and promote a full spectrum of test suites and quality mindset (unit, contract, integration, etc)
• Supports and Mentor Software Engineers by providing guidance, advice and coaching on best practices related to quality, testing and scalability

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of modern cloud architectures and technologies; experience with AWS is a plus
• Experience in a startup or high-growth environment and ability to hustle is desirable
• Hands-on experience in any of the following areas a plus: Data modeling, data architecture, and data governance
• Integrating CRM systems such as Salesforce with internal systems
• Integrating 3rd party systems with internal and external workflows
• Business workflow orchestration / choreography patterns

Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits