Senior Software Engineer (Product Foundations)

Join our team as a Senior Software Engineer in Product Foundations, where you'll have a broad impact across the platform. You'll independently own large-scoped projects, collaborate with a cross-functional team, and improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our existing systems. You'll also promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing, and mentorship. This role offers a range of benefits, including paid volunteer work, paid parental leave, work from home opportunities, and extensive learning and development opportunities.

• Independently own large-scoped projects from initial discovery through launch, focusing on outcomes and customer impact.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to find solutions to customer challenges, and improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of existing systems.
• Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing, and mentorship, while enhancing testing, monitoring, and continuous deployment infrastructure.
• You are self-driven and like to work with others to remove roadblocks. You are curious, and love to explore and learn new technologies
• You have demonstrated the ability to build, deploy and maintain large-scale, complex applications
• You care more about solutions and impacting the customer experience than using a particular tool or framework
• Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome
• Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what’s in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better
• Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism.Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking
• Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve
• Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others
• Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others
• Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
• Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude
• Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example
• Minimum of 5 years of professional hands-on experience
• Proficiency with SQL
• Experience working closely with designers and product managers
• Experience supporting and mentoring other engineers and acting as a “force multiplier”
• Proficiency with cloud infrastructure management, preferably AWS
• Mastery of modern server side languages, Golang is a plus but not required