Staff Software Engineer

As a Staff Software Engineer at Lightcast, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and delivering complex software solutions that drive the success of our projects. You will take on more strategic and challenging responsibilities, contribute to architectural decisions, and provide technical leadership to the team. Your strong problem-solving skills, technical acumen, and ability to mentor junior engineers will play a crucial role in driving innovation and ensuring the scalability and reliability of our software systems.

Major Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of large-scale software projects, ensuring adherence to best practices, scalability, and performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze requirements, propose technical solutions, and provide accurate effort estimations.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of software engineers, mentoring them in their professional growth and development.
• Drive technical excellence by conducting code reviews, promoting clean code practices, and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to developing software design principles, patterns, and guidelines.
• Collaborate with product managers, stakeholders, and other team members to understand business objectives and translate them into technical solutions.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies, industry trends, and advancements in software engineering, and share knowledge within the team.
• Champion engineering best practices, including automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous deployment.

Skills/Abilities:

• Core product development in C/C++.
• Proficiency in modern C++ is added advantage.
• Able to modularize and refactor legacy software code.
• Work with ML/AI models, Python, Java, C#, JSON, Regex on needed basis.
• Knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS).
• Experience with agile development methodologies and tools (e.g., Scrum, Jira, Git, GitLab).
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud-native technologies – gRPC, RabbitMQ.
• Demonstrates a strong track record of delivering high-quality software solutions and leading successful software projects.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a deep understanding of software development principles, design patterns and architectural concepts.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with the ability to inspire and guide junior engineers in their technical growth.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Detail-oriented, focused on writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and projects in a dynamic environment.
• Participating in design reviews of solutions.
• Investigation of new technologies, tools for suitability for company context.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. A master’s degree is a plus.
• 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering or related roles.
• Proven experience in leading and delivering complex software projects.
• Strong academic performance or relevant coursework/projects may compensate for limited professional experience.

Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights with headquarters in Moscow (ID) and Boston (MA) and offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India. We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions and companies, and our communities. 

Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.