As a Software Engineer you will:
Build solutions exclusively using AWS technologies and offerings including SNS and SQS, S3,
DynamoDB, Lambda Functions, Athena, Aurora, Glue, and Firehose.
Have end to end ownership of solutions, from participation in clarifying requirements to
collaborating on architectural design, technical documentation, programming, manual and
automated testing, building, deploying, validating, monitoring, and after-hours rotating
operational support.
Take an active role in identifying and prioritizing opportunities for investment in the technical,
non-functional requirements of the system.
Learn and become familiar with a supporting platform built using Circle CI, Nomad, Consul, Vault,
Kong, using Docker containers exclusively (plus a few Lambdas), and emphasizing patterns and
an approach inspired by 12 Factor App Methodology
Participate in evaluations of new technologies, platforms, frameworks, and techniques,
collaborating with your peers to help shape the direction of the engineering group.
Qualification - Required
5+ years of professional hands-on software development experience writing code for software
applications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
Professional experience with:
A statically typed language (C#, Java, Go, etc )
A dynamically typed language (Python, Ruby, JavaScript, etc...)
Understand and communicate the tradeoffs of each
RDMS experience:
CRUD
Performance
Schema design
Experience managing versioning and branching for project code
CI/CD pipeline delivery and pipeline automation experience
Experience developing test coverage for applications Experience with Production Monitoring tools like cloud logs, metrics, application/db analytics for:
Maintenance
Latency
Optimization
What We Look For
Working knowledge of Git and branching patterns
Openness to feedback and ability to creatively adapt multiple ideas into a solution
Ability to take direction at the level of problems to solve and provide options and direction on
potential solutions
Analytical skills and the ability to break complex and challenging problems and defects down until
they become actionable
Familiarity with producing technical writing including high and low-level diagramming techniques
A desire to succeed as a team and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and growth
of all team members; including;
Mentorship - both formal and informal
Collaboration
Sharing knowledge
Experience with lean methodologies
Public speaking skills
Teaching or tutoring experience
Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, and patterns of Infrastructure as Code
Experience with non-relational data stores, especially Elasticsearch and DynamoDB
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