Senior Engineer - Foundations (REMOTE)

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: REMOTE US

Compensation: $120,000 - $127,500 / year

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Delivery & Quality: Design and implement robust, scalable software solutions while maintaining 100% adherence to sanctioned CI/CD templates and meeting defined SLAs. Participates in and leads response to on-call incidents.
• Golden Path Adoption: Actively drive the use of standardized tools and technologies to reduce development friction and improve "Time to First Commit". Contributes to the evolution of the Golden path and Engineering standards.
• Process Improvement: Establish faster feedback loops and drive systematic improvements to development practices to reduce "Blocked Time" per ticket.
• Strategic Alignment: Ensure all technical work aligns with the long-term Architectural Vision and product outcomes rather than just output. Adapts to priority shifts and changing Product direction. Strong focus on measurable value creation via Engineering efforts.
• Mentorship & Leadership: Provide technical guidance to junior engineers, championing best practices through "Lightning Talks" and detailed documentation.

What You’ll Contribute

• Technical Mastery: Deep expertise in modern software architecture, including microservices, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native systems.
• Product Thinking: Ability to treat internal platforms and tools as products where fellow engineers are the customers.
• Communication: Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Agile Proficiency: Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum/Kanban with a focus on delivering MVPs over large-scale waterfall projects.
• Influence: Ability to build consensus across teams and drive change without direct authority.

• Required
  • 5+ years of software engineering or operations experience.
  • 2+ years of experience in a senior role.
  • Building, operating, troubleshooting and optimizing production systems under load.
  • Delivered software using Python and JavaScript with frameworks.
  • Interface with relational databases using SQL.
  • Using Git and conducting code reviews within a sprint SDLC.
  • Familiarity with Build systems, DevOps and CI/CD procedures.
  • Familiarity with cloud services.
  • Thorough understanding of HTTP APIs.
  • Possess advanced knowledge in your specialization to be able to guide and mentor team members. 
  • Experience designing and leading a software project from requirements to delivery with no guidance.
  • Experience independently researching and leading technical discussions with peers.
  • Thoroughly understands the business vision, mission, and strategy and how their code supports and affects business outcomes.
  • Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from key stakeholders and decision makers.
  • Working knowledge of taking a large complex project, breaking it down into sub-tasks, and completing those tasks as required.
  • Shows initiative and seeks evidence in data to support ideas.
• Preferred
  • Use of containerization and orchestration technologies, Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Node.js, FastAPI, React, GraphQL, Kafka, Flask, Redis, Memcached
  • AWS, DataDog, Cloudflare Workers, WP Engine
  • Microservices, distributed/edge systems and event driven architectures.
  • ADA / WCAG Compliance

Benefits

• Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program
• 401(k) with employer match
• 100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents
• 4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure
• 18 weeks paid leave for birth moms
• 8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption
• Monthly wellness allowance
• Annual professional and personal development allowance
• Work from home office set-up and expense allowances 
• Flexible work location opportunities 
• Employer matching toward charitable contributions