Staff Software Engineer - Java/AWS

Early Warning Services • San Francisco, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

This position is an important role in the development, test, and deployment of complex solutions. The role involves building technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems. The engineer will participate in the strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects and programs. They will drive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping, and implementation in support of both product needs as well as overall technology strategy. This role provides leadership and technical expertise in support of building a technical plan and backlog of stories, and then follows through on execution of design and build process through to production delivery. The engineer will guide a broad functional area and lead efforts through the functional team members along with the team’s overall planning. They will represent engineering in cross-functional team sessions and be able to present sound and thoughtful arguments to persuade others, adapting to the situation and drawing from a range of strategies to influence people in a way that results in agreement or behavior change. Collaboration and partnership with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize and build new features and create product descriptions is key. The engineer will actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems. They will assist support and operations teams in identifying and quickly resolving production issues. Development and implementation of tests for ensuring the quality, performance, and scalability of our application is also a core responsibility. The role actively seeks out ways to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes, while supporting the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field.
• Eight or more years of relevant related experience.
• Seven or more years of experience in the development of distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, micro services.
• Six or more years of work experience with Java/Spring.
• Proficiency in Maven/Gradle.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering business-critical systems to the market.
• Ability to influence and work in a collaborative team environment.
• Experience designing/developing scalable systems.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging frameworks (Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc).
• Working experience with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, etc).
• Knowledge of mature engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, secure coding, etc).
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN etc) and DevOps practices.
• Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire.
• This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced Java and Spring/Spring Boot development
• AWS-based application architecture
• Hands-on system design and coding
• Technical leadership for a delivery team
• Code and design reviews
• Mentoring engineers
• Leading technical planning, decomposition, and execution
• Coordinating team-level engineering activities without formal people-management responsibility

Responsibilities

• Build technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems.
• Participate in the strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects and programs.
• Drive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping and implementation in support of both product needs as well as overall technology strategy.
• Provide leadership and technical expertise in support of building a technical plan and backlog of stories, and then follow through on execution of design and build process through to production delivery.
• Guide a broad functional area and lead efforts through the functional team members along with the team’s overall planning.
• Represent engineering in cross-functional team sessions and able to present sound and thoughtful arguments to persuade others.
• Collaborate and partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize and build new features and create product descriptions.
• Actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.
• Assist support and operations teams in identifying and quickly resolving production issues.
• Develop and implement tests for ensuring the quality, performance, and scalability of our application.
• Actively seek out ways to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Supporting the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Benefits

• Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans
• Company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
• Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees
• 11 paid company holidays
• A paid volunteer day
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior