Qarik Group is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer in United States

Summary

Qarik is an IT Solutions company specializing in Google Cloud Platform seeking a Senior Software Engineer proficient in Python to build Generative AI applications using Large Language Models (LLMs). The role involves working with customers, mentoring other engineers, providing technical guidance, and engaging with customer teams. Minimum qualifications include 9+ years of software development experience, strong skills in Python, experience in designing and implementing cloud-native applications, and a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Requirements

• 9+ years of software development experience, with strong skills in Python
• Experience in designing and implementing cloud-native applications, microservices architecture, and understanding of distributed systems
• Experience with using relational and document databases
• Experience in software lifecycle best practices
• Demonstrated ability in scaling applications and understanding time/space complexity
• Understanding of troubleshooting and reductionist techniques in software development
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Responsibilities

• Work with customers to understand their requirements and imagine, design, and develop innovative applications on Google Cloud
• Contribute ideas and lead implementation of features to enhance product functionality
• Mentor other software engineers, perform code reviews and joint design sessions
• Provide technical guidance, sharing knowledge on development and operations with team members
• Engage with customer teams to set goals, design solutions, and implement processes aligned with modern engineering practices for reliable operation of business critical systems
• Be on rotation to support production systems in an SRE capacity
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, focusing on increasing developer productivity, code velocity, and overall quality

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including Cloud Run, GKE, Firestore, and CloudSQL. Alternatively, experience with similar services on AWS or Azure
• Large Language Model development stack (LangChain, Google PaLM, etc.)
• CI/CD automation and orchestration (Jenkins, Github Actions, Cloud Build, or similar)
• Infrastructure actuation/automation (Terraform or similar)

Benefits

• Competitive employee compensation and outstanding benefits package
• Fully remote work with work hours and vacation flexibility for work/life balance
• Work on a team where people respect each other, have a shared goal of customer success, and work together instead of competing against each other or counting the lines of code or number of PRs to meet personal annual OKRs
• Use the latest AI tech and push the boundaries possible, constantly learning new stuff and creating new cool things together