Principal Backend Software Engineer

Feathr•Gainesville, FL

1d•$145,000 - $165,000•Remote

About The Position

Feathr’s SaaS platform is critical to the value we deliver to our clients. Feathr’s Principal Engineers help us grow and maintain the technical components that allow us to meet our diverse customer base's advertising, marketing, and web analytics needs. A Principal Engineer at Feathr has demonstrated interest in and proficiency in web development. You will work under the direction of the Associate Director of Product Engineering on backend software development projects. Engineers at Feathr own their code from planning to maintenance to retirement - you will work with internal and external stakeholders to develop requirements and design technical solutions, collaborate with your engineering colleagues to implement those solutions, deploy and monitor your changes in production, and address issues as they are identified.

Requirements

6+ years of experience in software development, with a strong focus on SaaS products.
Expertise in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.
Professional experience owning a process that includes shipping a complicated piece of software to real users.
Working with both synchronous and asynchronous environments.
Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis, and Python.
Experience with Advanced ElasticSearch APIs.
Expertise in MongoDB Queries and Aggregations, as well as regular maintenance.
Expertise in AWS infrastructure and services (EC2 and EKS at a minimum).
Experience with self-hosted Drone CI/CD.
Patience and determination to work through complex technical troubleshooting obstacles.
Demonstrated ability to collaborate and manage relationships with internal and external partners.
Constantly look to hone your craft and share what you learn with your colleagues.
Service-oriented team player who is here to achieve success for Feathr, The Product Team, and yourself.
Pragmatic and customer-oriented - you are building software to help customers, not for the sake of building software.
Comfortable adapting to quickly changing conditions. You might be working on one project but need to context switch to another unexpectedly during a critical outage.
Careful, detail-oriented approach to building software - ask questions first and write code later.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Your code solves immediate problems while building a sustainable system that lasts into the future.
Understand how to ingest and transform event streams from a variety of sources.

Responsibilities

Work under the direction of the Associate Director of Product Engineering on backend software development projects.
Own code from planning to maintenance to retirement.
Work with internal and external stakeholders to develop requirements and design technical solutions.
Collaborate with engineering colleagues to implement technical solutions.
Deploy and monitor changes in production.
Address issues as they are identified.
Plan and iterate over the product development lifecycle.
Work alongside other Product Team engineers to design and develop features.
Break down complex technical challenges into manageable work components, ensuring clear deliverables.
Receive feedback on code and features and iterate.
Collaborate with members of other departments to ensure technical solutions meet the company's business interests.
Ensure the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of Feathr’s data and operations.