Senior Full Stack Engineer

Overview

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend systems with Kotlin or Java, ensuring scalability and reliability.
  
• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance frontend systems with Typescript React, ensuring scalability and reliability.
  
• Engage in collaborative efforts with cross-functional teams to conceptualize, architect, and implement new features that enhance our SaaS offerings.
  
• Understand existing features and define the best short, medium and long term strategy to migrate or re-architect systems to support our SaaS platform’s growth and scalability for.
  
• Identify and address issues which affect our products and lead the efforts to implement solutions across teams by making key technical decisions which define our future engineering direction.
  
• Proactively identify and address cross-product performance bottlenecks, ensuring the efficiency and responsiveness of our services.
  
• Design and implement robust and maintainable APIs that support both internal and external integrations.
  
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to understand requirements and deliver high-quality solutions.
  
• Proactively engage in knowledge sharing across teams and the organization, promoting a culture of learning and development.
  
• Create and maintain technical documentation for systems, APIs, and processes.
  
• Collaborate with support teams to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues promptly.
  

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  
• 3+ years of overall hands-on experience in software engineering, developing and operating web applications, especially using technologies: Kotlin/Java and React.
  
• Experience with design, development, and operation of service-oriented or microservices architecture, demonstrating an understanding of scalable and modular architecture.
  
• Experience in architecture design and technology selection, showcasing the ability to make informed decisions for optimal solutions.
  
• Demonstrated ability to independently analyze, design, and refactor using various design patterns and identify and address anti-patterns.
  
• Proficiency in tuning middleware components, including database optimization and performance improvement strategies.
  
• Flexibility and adaptability to work with diverse technology stacks, with motivation to learn technologies like Ruby on Rails, Frontend frameworks and others in order to optimize our new systems.
  
• Proven track record of actively participating in team-based quality improvement efforts through code reviews and test code implementation.
  
• Hands-on experience with test design, creation, and operation using documentation or testing tools like JUnit, Kotest, RSpec, Jest, or similar.
  
• Experience in mentoring other engineers, demonstrating the ability to guide and support fellow team members in their professional growth.
  
• Experience in managing incident response, including efficient discovery, thorough investigation of root causes, prompt resolution, and implementation of permanent solutions.
  

Nice-to-have

• Familiarity with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, React or Vue.js.
  
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  
• Experience with event driven architectures and similar patterns to optimize performance across our systems.
  
• Previous experience working with Scrum and Agile development methodologies, contributing to efficient and collaborative project delivery.
  
• Previous exposure to a SaaS environment will be considered an advantage.
  

Tech stack

• Backend: Kotlin, Java, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, gRPC, Sidekiq Pro, RSpec
  
• Frontend: TypeScript, Next.js, Vue.js, Nuxt.js, Jest
  
• Infrastructure: Amazon EKS, Aurora, ElastiCache, S3
  
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
  
• Repositories: GitHub
  
• Project management: JIRA
  
• Monitoring: Datadog, Rollbar
  
• CI/CD: CircleCI, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions
  
• Communication Tools: Zoom, Slack, Figma, Miro