Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire.
Our client is a growing company in NYC.
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer
Compensation: $190,000 - $300,000 salary, employee equity plan grant & world class benefits.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be part of an autonomous team owning a specific problem space in one of our backend development teams. You will be working closely with other software engineers and product managers in your team on solving interesting problems and driving business values.
About the Role:
- Design, develop, test, deploy and improve code that solves real-world problems.
- Own complex product features end to end - with a focus on customer impact.
- Manage priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
- Operate with autonomy in solving problems.
- Collaborate with other teams to deliver new products.
- Create fast, scalable and easy-to-use applications.
- Build libraries and frameworks that others can use.
- Take responsibility for system health, monitoring and alerting, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Support and mentor other engineers on best practices, architecture, and quality.
Requirements
About You:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6+ years of experience, or 4 years with an advanced degree, in commercial software development experience designing, building and operating distributed systems.
- Commercial experience in one of the following languages: Java, C#, Python, JavaScript or Go. You have written a lot of performant easy-to-maintain code using best practices.
- Experience in any of the following: web application development, distributed systems, cloud platforms such AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong background in designing and building high-throughput low-latency distributed systems.
- Excellent communication skills in English - you can explain complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences both verbally and in writing.
- At our client, we encourage autonomy; teams have complete ownership of their systems including building, running and monitoring. As such, you may be required to be on-call and respond to systems alerts should they arise.
- Ideas, opinions, and the ability to share them through respectful proposals, presentations, and team-wide discussions, an eagerness to work and learn in the open and share your learnings with your teammates.
- A willingness and comfort in communicating remotely through chat, docs, video calls, and other collaborative online tools.
The salary range is $190,000 - $300,000.
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