The Senior Software Engineer on the Platform team will design performant foundational systems and developer integration tooling supporting our other backend software engineering teams: API, internal services, and data science. The Platform team's solutions better enable these teams to rapidly develop mission-critical solutions and applications for our customers and for our operations & supply chain teams, with greater consistency, performance, security, operability, and maintainability.
They will work closely with the DevOps team to enable reliable infrastructure, effective automation, and self-service. They rely on their own experience while performing additional research as necessary, to arrive at the best solution for each task. They have proven records being the tech lead on complex, cross-team projects, proactively raising issues, and resourcefully unblocking themselves to ensure projects are delivered with high quality and within the expected timeline. They can constructively debate any issue, persuade others with hard evidence while staying objective and open to changing their mind. In short, they will support the foundation of our entire engineering team’s continued success.
Responsibilities- Own mission-critical and high scale systems and integrations, particularly those that support operations, data science, and other dev teams
- Design, document, and support tooling and integrations that accelerate other backend engineering teams’ velocity through outstanding developer experience and minimized cognitive load
- Drive important technical discussions and help the team arrive at the best possible solution given any constraints we may face. Be a sounding board to other engineers and willing to offer assistance in helping solve very difficult problems
- Work closely with engineering leads on planning and execution of large, complex projects
- Contribute directly to important feature development and maintenance
- Help raise the bar on code quality and enforce engineering discipline through code review feedback, testing, automation, technical presentations and opportunistic refactoring
- Participate in the interview process of other senior, mid, or junior engineering candidates and contribute to hiring decisions
- 5+ yrs of commercial software development experience.
- 3+ yrs of experience using Python and the wider ecosystem as the primary day-to-day environment
- 2+ yrs of experience working with a web framework such as Django (Preferred), Flask, FastAPI.
- 3+ yrs of relational SQL experience, strong understanding of MySQL performance tuning and comfortable writing raw SQL queries
- 2+ yrs of experience using Docker, experience in improving docker build efficiency
- 2+ yrs of experience troubleshooting production issues using Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar technologies for observability
- 2+ years of professional work experience within an AWS environment
Nice to Haves
- Full-stack engineering experience is a plus
- Experience with AWS and its various core services
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC Tools)
- Experience working with data science teams
- Experience writing clear, complete technical documentation for the code you’ve written
- A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
- Remote-first: work from home, work from our NYC office, work from anywhere in the U.S. - you decide!
- Equity
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Universal paid parental leave
- Monthly Hungryroot credit for delicious, healthy groceries
- Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance
- 401k with Company Match
- A work from home stipend to support your initial home-office setup
Expected Pay Range:
$160,000 - $180,000
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