Staff Software Engineer

Ritchie Bros.•Tampa, FL

59d

About The Position

The Staff Software Engineer is responsible for leading the team that supports and enhances the code base used for company's administrative and reporting tools. Responsible for all development practices for the web and services (integration) platform. Lead the implementation of the full stack web experience. Work closely with UX/UI department in leading the technical vision for our products. Collaborate with designers, product managers, and developers to deliver compelling and efficient tools/products. Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues. Lead, coach and train a team of full stack developers. Architect, design and implement highly efficient and scalable applications, with robust observability and monitoring solutions Proactively monitor and analyze system performance, identifying and addressing bottlenecks and potential issues before they impact users Refactor and modernize of the legacy codebase improving maintainability Responsible for provisioning application infrastructure from code Work as on-call support to troubleshoot production issues and provide resolution. Responsible for solving complex scalability, platform, and integration problems. Mentor and provide technical leadership to other engineers in the team Lead technical design sessions, creating detailed system diagrams and documentation that guide development teams Should be proficient in both application development, application support and maintenance of production systems.

Requirements

Minimum 10-15 years of application design and development experience
Expert level knowledge and experience with Java 17 and above
Expert level knowledge and experience with Spring Framework
Expert knowledge and experience of developing and consuming Web Services using REST.
Expert knowledge with Spring boot micro-services, API development and API security.
Experience working with implementing API authorization using IDaaS providers such as Auth0, Azure AD, AWS Cognito
Experience working in relational databases: Postgres/MySQL
Experience writing unit and integration test, preferred Junit, Mockito.
Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
Experience of working on Kafka or similar messaging system
Experience in provisioning Infrastructure-as-code
Proven ability to integrate observability tools and telemetry standards such as OpenTelemetry.
Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills

Nice To Haves

Experience with Agile Scrum
Experience with TDD and Pair Programming
Experience with modern CI/CD tools and deployment pipelines
Experience with Git/Github
Experience with AWS
Experience with containerization tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
Experience with Full stack development using HTML5, JavaScript, TypeScript, React
Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry is highly desired

Responsibilities

Lead the team that supports and enhances the code base used for company's administrative and reporting tools.
Responsible for all development practices for the web and services (integration) platform.
Lead the implementation of the full stack web experience.
Work closely with UX/UI department in leading the technical vision for our products.
Collaborate with designers, product managers, and developers to deliver compelling and efficient tools/products.
Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues.
Lead, coach and train a team of full stack developers.
Architect, design and implement highly efficient and scalable applications, with robust observability and monitoring solutions
Proactively monitor and analyze system performance, identifying and addressing bottlenecks and potential issues before they impact users
Refactor and modernize of the legacy codebase improving maintainability
Responsible for provisioning application infrastructure from code
Work as on-call support to troubleshoot production issues and provide resolution.
Responsible for solving complex scalability, platform, and integration problems.
Mentor and provide technical leadership to other engineers in the team
Lead technical design sessions, creating detailed system diagrams and documentation that guide development teams
Should be proficient in both application development, application support and maintenance of production systems.