What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Software Engineer - Emerging Tech position at A Place For Mom?
Responsibilities
We are looking for a talented Staff Software Engineer who will utilize a modern technology stack to update and maintain our internal core services. This role entails developing and acting as team lead across an engineering team composed of full stack developers along with QA engineers.
This position reports to the Director of Engineering Emerging Technologies. You will leverage your expertise in technology to meticulously select the latest technologies architectural frameworks and design patterns for implementation. Your role will involve providing visionary leadership and architectural direction along with the principal engineer to a dedicated team of engineers tasked with developing core services technologies that support our business. You will also take a role in the development of those platforms.
Who you are :
The ideal candidate is a handson outcomeoriented technologyfocused engineer with extensive experience in acting as team lead helping to drive designing building and supporting modern backend technologies. Additionally they demonstrate a strong partnership with product teams ensuring alignment between technological innovation and product development goals.
What you will do :
- Lead missioncritical projects and deliver platform capabilities endtoend with high quality
- Have clear ownership of one or many products or platform spaces
- Get exposure to the partners and customers in different business domains who will help provide feedback for your product space
- Build and grow your engineering skills in different challenging areas and solve hard technical problems
- Influence architecture technology selections and trends of the whole company
- Collaborate with team and peers to design complex applications peer review code and suggest optimization
- Enable continuous deployment by championing quality engineering practices : linting unit testing e2e testing pipeline automation
- Collaborate with and influence product teams to build and maintain design system standards processes and adoption
- Create reference implementations for the purpose of mentoring and leading more junior staff (when required)
- Help define engineering best practices and provide technical mentorship
- Investigate and resolve any production issues from end user (UI) to service layer and work to prevent them
- Work with project managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and high quality
Qualifications :
Required Skills and Competencies :
Additional Information :
Compensation
401(k) plus match
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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Salary : $150,000
