What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer position at Prove?
Title: Senior Software Engineer
Department: Technology
Reports To: Engineering Manager
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Chicago, IL or Denver, CO
About The Role
Prove is building next generation user authentication and identity solutions that combine enterprise-grade cloud services, behavioral biometrics from smartphone sensor data, and machine learning. You’ll be part of a highly effective engineering team with a collaborative get-stuff-done culture. We embrace our startup roots and are willing to wear whatever hat is necessary to make our team and products successful.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be working on complex projects as a critical member of the team. You will contribute to the design and implementation of software components, systems and features aiming to improve the capability, availability, scalability, latency, security, compliance and efficiency of our solutions. This is a hands-on role where you will be responsible for making technical decisions and influencing product direction. You will work collaboratively with the team and mentor your peers by explaining your designs, code, and testing with clarity that elevates everyone in our organization.
Tech Stack
- Cloud Infrastructure: AWS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront
- Using Golang for building scalable, high-performance backend services
- Containerization and Orchestration: Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
Responsibilities
- Write well designed, testable, and efficient code that meets coding standards.
- Ensure designs comply with requirements and perform code reviews.
- Own delivery of software features from product conception to production deployment by developing project roadmaps, engaging with Product to define technical requirements and design, and engaging with IT/Ops to ensure software makes it out to production in a timely manner.
- Exercise creative thinking and imagination to find solutions to hard problems.
- Lead projects and mentor engineers.
- Promote, maintain and enhance our cultural values of humility, passion, inclusion and leadership
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field/experience
- 6 years of hands-on software development experience
- Strong software development principles, including scalable software and architectural design patterns
- Proven experience as a backend developer, preferably with experience in Golang
- Experience with public cloud infrastructure
- Prior technical leadership experience
- DevOps experience highly desirable
- Strong passion for learning about our products and markets through in-house and external training.
- Experience in high-growth /pre-IPO Technology companies
This position description should not be considered the final description of the position. The position description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the positions. It should be assumed that we would, to some extent, structure responsibilities in accordance with the successful candidate’s capabilities and changing business conditions. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.
The anticipated salary range for this role is $140,000 - $170,000, company bonus and stock options. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, geo-location, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
