Stavvy is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

The job description is for a Staff Software Engineer role at Stavvy, where the employee will be responsible for setting the vision for the core application, providing direction for large feature work, assisting with refactoring and enforcing architectural principles, and leading investigations to resolve production issues. The ideal candidate has a strong development background in Java/Kotlin, Python, and other environments, experience designing systems that scale, knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure, hands-on experience with SQL databases, and leadership skills.

Requirements

• Strong development background with 10+ years experience in Java/Kotlin, Python, and/or other environments
• Solid computer science fundamentals and demonstrable hands-on experience with architectural design and complex systems
• You have experience designing systems that scale as validated through performance and load testing
• A profound understanding of how to best create modern SaaS-based web applications
• Comprehensive knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure development and tech stacks (AWS strongly preferred), familiarity with Git for version control, and back-end deployment process best practices
• Hands-on experience with SQL databases and other persistence models and caching schemes
• Experience with DataDog and a strong interest in observability is a plus
• You have led high-level technical projects or have been the primary engineering leader of multi-month engineering projects
• Skilled at conflict management and resolution; advocating for your ideas strongly while listening and integrating the ideas of others equally strongly
• Natural collaborator and problem solver who thrives in fast-paced environments
• Relentlessly curious and are continuously working to learn and build your knowledge
• You put customers first and are open to help triage on the occasional customer or partner call

Responsibilities

• Provide direction and guidance for large feature work from the inception stage
• Assist a product delivery team with refactoring and enforcing core architectural principles while we consolidate and reduce complexity to improve the user experience
• Focus on our core application, but also be aware of our additional product(s) and their interactions
• Express thoughtful opinions and know-how on implementing enterprise-grade systems at the code and schema levels as well as distributed systems architecture
• Champion a holistic engineering approach that accounts for SDLC and CICD best practices in terms of development velocity and risk management
• Lay out the foundations for new services in Kotlin/Java and Python and ensure their implementation not only to functional requirements, but to performance, scalability, security, and other technical characteristics
• Recognize, classify, prioritize, and business-justify investments in servicing tech debt
• Collaborate with our product, design, and development teams in order to fully create and understand the requirements for what is necessary to be produced
• Lead investigations when necessary to resolve production issues, always putting our customers first

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with other environments besides Java/Kotlin, Python is beneficial

Benefits

• Fully Covered Medical Insurance
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid Time Off (12 Holidays & 12 Recharge days)
• 401K
• Office centrally located in Boston’s financial district
• Paid Parental, Medical & Military Leave
• Competitive salary and generous stock options
• Core values-based leadership
• Endless opportunities to learn and take on new responsibilities in a fast-paced, growth-mode startup