Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate. Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. Experience designing cloud-scale services and distributed systems. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Proficient in delivering and interacting with REST API's and web services across multiple systems. Able to learn new systems quickly and adapt new methodologies to our service. Experience coding, debugging, algorithm design and problem-solving skills. Collaborate with partner teams to meet the engineering goals in a unified manner. Experience with building cloud-scale infrastructure components. Awareness, passion, and experience related to cloud scale distributed design and patterns. Familiar with secure software design concepts. Experience delivering projects that include multiple components. Ability and eagerness to work across and partner with multiple engineering teams to achieve business goals. Experience mentoring and coaching peers and early-in-career engineers.