Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join the Raspberry Pi Foundation as a Staff Software Engineer and lead our engineering teams in building and improving our products and services. You will take on technical leadership, setting examples for your team and impacting hundreds of thousands of users. As an expert in at least one technical domain, you will mentor engineers and make key technical decisions. You will focus on improving team processes and practices. We offer a flexible and collaborative work environment where you can do the best work of your career. This role involves significant technical leadership, mentoring, and collaboration with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Experience developing engineering talent through mentoring and coaching
• Led complex technical delivery projects in an Agile environment
• In depth knowledge of Ruby on Rails, Node.js/Express or front end web frameworks (such as React) and significant experience with RDBMS (such as PostgreSQL)
• Deep technical expertise and excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills, including in debugging opaque distributed system issues without clear causal chains
• Experience optimising the performance of distributed systems. Including instrumenting services for performance metrics, monitoring performance and using the insights gained to design performant systems
• A track record of implementing proactive security tooling techniques, measures and practices
• A proven track record of architecting and managing infrastructure on platforms such as Heroku, Cloudflare, and AWS, using tools and services such as Terraform and CircleCI
• Experience collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to gather requirements and define elegant technical solutions
• An in-depth knowledge of engineering patterns and standards
• Experience writing documentation for a variety of technical and non-technical audiences, including specifications, architecture proposals, Request for
• Experience appropriately communicating technology decisions to a variety of stakeholders
• Experience disseminating Agile ways of working and best practices across teams and organisations

Responsibilities

• Act as technical lead on the Foundation’s various products and services
• Write code that serves as an example of best practice in security, accessibility, performance and robustness to the rest of your team
• Propose and implement architectural solutions to solve the Foundation's technical challenges, building highly scalable and robust web applications and systems
• Set an example for the members of your delivery team and across the engineering organisation, leading by example through code reviews, writing secure and scalable code, and by following a test-driven approach
• Share your knowledge proactively through the mentoring and coaching of senior engineers
• Accelerate delivery teams and projects through finding practical solutions to blocking technical issues and defining an effective development process
• Be accountable for the quality of the code for your team, with ownership of the technical aspects and architecture of key projects
• Continuously improve quality in your work and support others to do the same, providing technical and architectural support to other delivery teams
• Define and own the technical operations of your team’s products and services
• Articulate technical decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders, with a clear focus on user needs and business value

Benefits

• 25 days’ annual leave initially, growing to 30 days after five years service
• Company-wide close down for 3 days at the end of the year
• Generous company pension scheme with 8% employer and 4% employee contributions
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance and long-term illness insurance policy
• Investment in professional development and learning
• Flexible work hours as needed, to fit around childcare or other commitments
• Generous family leave policy
• Cycle-to-work scheme and season ticket loan