Senior Software Engineer

What you will be working on: As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer, you will play the role of a technical lead in one of our squads. You will play a pivotal role in leading one of our squads. Additionally, you will drive the strategic design, implementation, and delivery of multiple products owned by your squad. Your responsibilities will include:

• Taking a leadership role in team delivery of product and engineering goals

• Delivering high-quality, maintainable, and reusable software systems.

• Making significant technical contributions and providing technical leadership to software engineers by coaching and mentoring through engineering best practices.

• Influencing team direction towards the achievement of high-priority initiatives to maximize our impact on the public good.

• Establishing practices and tools to foster a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact.

• Independently managing external (to the team) dependencies related to your work items.

• Collaborating with other leaders to create a long-term technical plan and roadmap for the assigned squads, and for other squads as needed. Updating the roadmap regularly to meet future product/business needs and infrastructure requirements.

• Leading recruitment efforts, particularly for senior hires.

What we are looking for

• • Experience working on reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale.

• • Experience in modern full-stack web application technologies; experience in modern front-end engineering on Next.Js/React.js and Java/TypeScript on the backend is preferred.

• • Have a strong sense of what it means to be a technical leader, particularly as it relates to the suite of soft skills beyond just your technical chops.

• • Passion towards engineering excellence; you deeply understand that software engineering is a team sport, and you take pride in the craftsmanship aspect of software engineering.

• • Passion towards working for public good with interest.

• • Interest and experience in coaching and growing junior engineers.

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