Principal Software Engineer
RemoteHuntsville, Alabama, United States
Job Summary
Own the architectural and systems design for Fandom's Tabletop platform, leading engineering teams to deliver scalable web experiences for millions of users. Drive the migration from a monolithic stack to a microservice-based architecture while collaborating with Data Science to build and scale the platform. Provide technical leadership across multiple teams and technologies, identifying risks and opportunities to improve organizational methods and influencing senior leaders on engineering strategy. Maintain a plan for future growth and trade-offs in technology debt, leveraging expertise in DynamoDB, MongoDB, AWS, and GraphQL to optimize dynamic, highly cached environments.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of Consumer Web software engineering experience with a track-record of growth in development, design, and architecture
- Recent experience building and migrating to a modern front-end tech-stack JAMstack, React.js, Redux, typescript, express.js
- Practical usage of scaled-up DBMS based platforms (DynamoDB, MongoDB), with expertise in both relational and nonrelational systems and when it is necessary to choose each one
- Strong API integration skills with experience in cloud architecture using tools such as AWS, Elastic Search, GraphQL (Apollo) and Cognito
- A high degree of proficiency in building full-stack web systems, in both dynamic and highly cached environment using one or more of the following C#, Node.js, Python
Desired Qualifications
- A passion for fandoms and an interest in building products for fan communities around the world
- Contributed to open-source projects
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