Staff Software Engineer, Supply Chain Sourcing (Remote)
About The Position
The Staff Software Engineer leads a team of engineers in building and designing products for customers and associates. The role contributes to creating, deploying, and supporting production applications while helping engineers develop their technical and leadership skills. Responsibilities also include assisting with product and tool selection, configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning, and production monitoring. Staff Software Engineers contribute reusable foundational code, architectural diagrams, and other product-related documentation, and help build the skills of more junior engineers. This position develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software; works with the Product Team to ensure user stories are developer-ready, understandable, and testable; and collaborates in agile processes. It fields questions from product and engineering teams, guides junior engineers on modern software development frameworks, leads technical discussions, and identifies team gaps and improvements. The position typically reports to a Software Engineer Manager or Senior Manager and typically has no direct reports. No travel is required.
Requirements
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
- At least 3 years of work experience.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a field of study related to the job, or the knowledge, skills, and abilities typically acquired through completing such a degree program.
Nice To Haves
- 3–5 years of relevant work experience.
- Extensive experience with front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks; an object-oriented programming language, preferably Java; relational or NoSQL databases; cloud computing techniques; CI/CD tools; and modern software design patterns.
- Experience with data modeling for relational and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with security frameworks for user and service authorization and authentication.
- Experience creating and executing unit, functional, destructive, and performance tests.
- Experience with modern debugging and root-cause analysis techniques.
- Experience with version control systems.
- Experience designing systems for high availability, disaster recovery, performance, efficiency, and security.
- Exposure to developing technical roadmaps, including work estimation, refactoring, and modernizing legacy systems.
Responsibilities
- Develop, test, deploy, and maintain software with a clear understanding of the value it provides.
- Take a broad, global perspective when addressing issues and consistently deliver results, including under challenging circumstances.
- Develop functional, destructive, and other test suites to support successful, rapid deployment of code to production.
- Seek opportunities to grow and take on challenges through formal and informal development; learn from successful and unsuccessful experiments.
- Create better ways for the organization to succeed and communicate clearly to audiences with different needs.
- Work with the Product Team to ensure user stories are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable.
- Collaborate with team members in agile processes and adapt to changing situations and groups.
- Answer questions from product and engineering teams.
- Guide junior engineers on modern software development frameworks and lead technical discussions.
- Identify team gaps and suggest changes to improve team productivity.
- Assist with product and tool selection, configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning, and production monitoring.
- Contribute reusable foundational code, architectural diagrams, and other product-related documentation.
- Help junior engineers grow their technical and leadership skills.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
