What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Software Engineer position at Western Climate Initiative Inc.?
What are we looking for?
The Staff Software Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our users and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering reliability and correctness. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.
What will you do?
- Own complete solutions across their entire life cycle.
- Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, and customers to solve complex problems for building enterprise-class business applications.
- Hold yourself accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions.
- Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization.
- Utilize programming languages like NodeJS, Typescript, and other languages; SQL and NoSQL databases, Serverless technologies like Lambda, and a variety of AWS tools and services.
- Analyze problems and provide solution and options.
- Reviewing design documents and providing meaningful feedback.
- Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential.
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.
What skills and knowledge should you bring?
- 10 years of professional software development experience.
- 5 years of experience with architecture and design.
- 5 years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service.
- Preferred experience inside a heavily regulated environment.
- Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as: NodeJS, Typescript, Javascript, Go, or Python.
- Fluency with Object-Oriented and Functional design paradigms.
- Experience with a modern UI framework like React.
- Experience in building products using micro-service and monolithic architectures.
- Experience in building extensible REST APIs.
- Experience with Authorization and Authentication protocols and patterns such as: OAuth 2.0, SAML, RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC.
- Experience in serverless environments.
- Experience architecting and designing solutions for new and legacy systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling).
- Fluency in DevOps Concepts, DevOps Tooling, and Cloud Architecture.
- Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code.
- Experience in leveraging Bash scripting.
- Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments.
- Understanding of application security concepts like OSWAP.
- Experience with relational databases: architecture, design, and query implementation and optimization.
- Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication).
- Enterprise-level design documentation.
- Risk assessment.
- Strong problem-solving ability.
- Curiosity and Initiative.
- Strong technical and non-technical communication skills.
- Team player.
Travel
The Staff Software Engineer may need to travel for specific and well-defined business purposes.
About this Position
This is a full-time salary position that may be in Sacramento, California (headquarter) or remote from the United States. WCI, Inc. offers competitive salaries and benefits commensurate with qualifications and professional experience and is committed to equal employment opportunities. For more information, visit our Website and Careers Page.