Lead Software Engineer

Description:

What You’ll Do:

• Design and develop system architectures, components, and APIs to support a rapidly scaling platform, ensuring efficient product delivery and maintaining high operational quality
• Design, develop, and maintain premier labor planning and labor management systems for fulfillment operations
• Develop enterprise-level architecture, establish coding standards for scalability, performance, readability, and testing, and ensure code reviews uphold high standards for the team
• Actively guide Team Members and participate in the definition, design, development, testing and implementation of software functionality using an agile methodology
• Ensure technical solutions implemented by the team are built to follow standard processes, remain robust, and are both maintainable and scalable under heavy load
• Collaborate with DevOps to design and manage the cloud infrastructure, focusing on scalability, high availability, and disaster recovery
• Work closely with data scientists, data engineers, and business partners to understand data needs and develop robust solutions that meet business objectives
• Display excellent verbal and written communication and be able to convey dissenting opinions in a constructive manner
• Offer mentorship and guidance for peers and more junior engineers
• Establish strong working relationships at all organizational levels and across functional teams
• Participate in on-call rotations and operational excellence

What You’ll Need:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of professional back-end development experience in designing and building scalable enterprise systems and architecture by using Java, Kotlin, Python, or other Object-Oriented Programming languages
• 5+ years of experience building large-scale products using frontend technologies like React/JavaScript/Vue/Typescript/CSS
• Experience with AWS data services, including but not limited to AWS EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3
• Experience working with event driven architectures and sound understanding of at least one event streaming solution (Kafka, SNS, etc.)
• Experience in PostgresSQL and related modules such as pglogical etc. with strong expertise in SQL
• Experience in Data Engineering pipeline setup is desired, especially real time data ingestion and transformation using Kafka/SQS along with orchestration tools such as Airflow
• Experience developing CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or similar tool
• Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals – object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Consistent record of effectively communicating with customers
• Must be team oriented and have a customer first mentality

Bonus (if applicable):

• Experience in building scalable and high-availability system from scratch
• Familiarity with Application monitoring tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace etc.
• Experience handling infrastructure as code with tools like Terraform
• Experience working in e-commerce