Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Ledger Engineering)
$181,000–$241,000 year
RemoteOntario, California, United States or New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Job Summary
Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale and tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects. Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle with product management, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability and risks are well understood. Act as a force-multiplier by defining and advocating for technical solutions and operational processes. Take ownership of team operations and availability by establishing monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting to support on-call efforts. Foster a culture of quality by setting code review and design standards, advocating for them through writing and tech talks, while developing talent through feedback and guidance.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
- extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes
- experience in financial systems, ledgering, treasury or adjacent domains where data accuracy and system reliability are critical
- experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan
- You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others
- You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work
- Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers
- strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team
- candidates residing in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan
Hiring someone like this?
Get your role in front of qualified candidates on Sorce.