Remote Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Swish Analytics as a Staff Software Engineer to lead and own the development of various business essential products in a fast-paced environment. The team is looking for qualified individuals with technical leadership experience, creative problem-solving skills, and strong communication abilities.

Requirements

• 8+ years of production software engineering and technical leadership experience
• A creative mind for solving technically difficult problems in both standard and non-standard ways
• Hands-on production experience with languages like NodeJS & Python
• Hands-on production experience with databases, both relational and non-relational
• Passionate about reliability, high availability, automation, observability, coding standards, and global scale
• Strong communication skills working with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• You have a BS or higher in CS/CE/SE or relevant experience

Responsibilities

• Be the technical lead and owner for key products of our core backend applications
• Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedback
• Find optimizations in current applications, implement best practices, and ensure adherence to coding standards
• Design and enhance both new and existing services
• Work with globally distributed data
• Participate in discussions and create and review architectural diagrams
• Have a deep understanding of high-traffic, client-facing APIs and networking topology

Preferred Qualifications

• Production experience with software engineering at a global level
• Interest or experience with GO
• Production experience with stream-processing paradigms like Kafka
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with sports data
• Production experience working with low latent globally distributed data
• Production experience developing, deploying and maintaining critical business applications
• Understanding of various observability platforms
• Knowledge of CI/CD