Staff AWS Backend Engineer @ Bellevue, WA
About The Position
Quest Global delivers world-class end-to-end engineering solutions by leveraging our deep industry knowledge and digital expertise. By bringing together technologies and industries, alongside the contributions of diverse individuals and their areas of expertise, we are able to solve problems better, faster. This multi-dimensional approach enables us to solve the most critical and large-scale challenges across the aerospace & defense, automotive, energy, hi-tech, healthcare, medical devices, rail and semiconductor industries. We are looking for humble geniuses, who believe that engineering has the potential to make the impossible possible; innovators, who are not only inspired by technology and innovation, but also perpetually driven to design, develop, and test as a trusted partner for Fortune 500 customers. As a team of remarkably diverse engineers, we recognize that what we are really engineering is a brighter future for us all. If you want to contribute to meaningful work and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when you fail, we all learn, then we’re eager to hear from you. The achievers and courageous challenge-crushers we seek, have the following characteristics and skills As Senior Software Engineer, you’ll work closely with architects and technical product managers to translate overall system architecture and product requirements into well-designed and implemented software components. You’ll take ownership of the implementation of individual software components, with high emphasis on quality, test-driven development, and sound software engineering practices - using software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all the team deliverables.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline
- 8+ years of professional software development experience with history of technical innovation
- 3+ years of experience with building scalable, distributed systems using modern frameworks such as AWS, Azure or GCP
- 2+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience providing technical leadership to engineers, leading an engineering team, and / or mentorship.
Nice To Haves
- 9+ years of experience including 3+ experience with big data systems, analytics, containerized microservices, serverless functions, and event-driven architecture
- Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
- Experience with design/architecting large-scale distributed systems preferably using AWS technologies
- 2+ years working directly with end customers to assess needs, identify solutions, and constructively resolve disagreements
- Bring fresh ideas from all areas, including testing and validation automation while maintaining the production availability, conversion automation, distributed computing, large-scale system design
- Experience with supporting production software deployments
- Technical expertise across all deployment models on public cloud, and on-premises infrastructure
- Experience creating, documenting, and communicating software architectures for complex products
- Experience in building, tracking, and communicating plans within Agile processes
- Excellent technical problem-solving skills and aptitude to learn new technologies and methodologies
Responsibilities
- Work with the team to help solve business problems
- Write high quality distributed system software
- Work closely with architects and technical product managers to translate overall system architecture and product requirements into well-designed and implemented software components.
- Take ownership of the implementation of individual software components, with high emphasis on quality, test-driven development, and sound software engineering practices
- Participate in software design reviews, you conduct peer code reviews and provide input and feedback to other members of the development team.
- Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
- Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all the team deliverables.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
