Description:
This is a highly impactful, hands-on, senior level technical leadership role where the successful candidate will drive the technical direction for our organization of over 20 engineers across 4 agile teams. This includes providing technical guidance and mentorship to our senior engineers and technical leads. The role involves defining and refining our architecture, processes and best practices across our organization. As this is a hands-on role, the successful candidate will collaborate with domain experts, technical leads and engineers to design, build, test, and own systems and processes for servicing 401(k) plans and making our customers happy. As reliability and performance are key to earning our customers’ trust, the role includes owning the overall robustness of our area and extending our system’s reliability, scalability, observability and maintainability.
What you get to do every day
- Define forward looking architectures through creation of designs, establishing tradeoffs in cost vs value and gaining buy in from key technical, product and business stakeholders.
- Drive the delivery of prototypes, technical standards, project plans and roadmaps that align with the product vision of our organization and in conjunction with technical leads.
- Coach and mentor senior level engineers in our organization to help raise the bar in innovation, efficiency and technical capability.
- Deliver features and enhancements that improve complex processes and systems to make them more robust, higher performance and require less human intervention
- Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise
- Raise the bar of our team’s standards resulting in cleaner, well documented and higher quality code.
- Model and teach key behaviors for owning and delivering systems that are fast, horizontally scalable and reliable.
- Speak up and advocate for forward looking architectures and designs that minimize human intervention while keeping development costs incremental.
What you bring to the role
- Minimum 10 years of professional experience designing, building and maintaining large scale backend software products and systems.
- Expert at designing and building modular distributed applications to support an extremely rapidly growing customer base(100x)
- Solid understanding of the current landscape of auto-scaling cloud technologies and efficient usage of compute, storage, network and virtualization technologies. (preferably AWS)
- You enjoy influencing cross-team standards, practices, and tools by modeling behaviors and demonstrating outcomes.
- You can clearly articulate the business benefits that result from technical decisions.
- You enjoy mentoring other engineers and helping them grow technically. You often have become a key go-to person in your company, even on projects outside your project area.
- You have delivered large scale backend systems including ingesting and processing data at significant scale, managed elastic workloads using queue/worker and streaming architectures.
- You have experience migrating to modern scalable technologies from monolithic systems and databases while maintaining high reliability and availability.
- Strong desire to learn, exchange feedback and grow - from our internal legacy and futuristic technical designs, to retirement domains and workflows that are critical for our business.