Staff Software Engineer Python

Description:

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will act as a subject matter expert. We are looking for technologists with the highest levels of technical talent, programming, and communication skills with a keen desire to deeply understand our product and how to make our systems stronger and more resilient. Meet our team Engineering is a craft, and we want the internals of our software to be as elegant as the end user experience we are designing. We spend our days scaling our payment backend services and building new features to meet and exceed our user’s needs and wants. We teach and learn from one another and push each other to be at our creative and analytical best. We work to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability, and scalability.

As a Staff software engineer you will act as a senior engineer and subject matter expert for the team. Given all these fun challenges, we are a fast-paced organization going through rapid growth that is solving technical challenges at exponential scale. As an organization, we have a strong culture of committing to goals and delivering on timelines.

Your day to day as Staff Software Engineer:
 

• Exhibits end-to-end ownership of design, implementation and operational excellence of software components
• Ensures an accurate, complete and operable solution is delivered, working with management as needed to fill gaps.
• Contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessments of implementation alternatives and their associated tradeoffs and providing recommendations.
• Provides technical leadership for a small team with minimum guidance from management or senior teammates.
• Design, estimate and implement new and refactored software services on the platform securely, reliably and at scale. Take ownership of quality of design and implementation of software components.
• Deliver high quality code on time and follow our SDLC process.
• Own the performance and availability of the services as well as participate in on call rotations and provide support during incidences.
• Have an appetite to learn and contribute to complex projects alongside your colleagues.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews and is a key voice in team level processes.
• Interact with various non-engineering teams such as product, support, finance operations, compliance and legal.