What you will be working on:
As a Software Engineer, you will play the role of a technical expert in one of our squads. Additionally, you will drive the design, implementation & delivery of one or more products owned by your squad.
Your responsibilities will include:

Taking an active role in team delivery of product and engineering goals.
Delivering high-quality, maintainable, and reusable software systems.
Making technical contributions, and providing technical leadership to software engineers by coaching and mentoring through engineering best practices.
Influencing team direction towards achievement of high-priority initiatives (to maximize our impact on the public good)
Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact.
Independently managing external (to the team) dependencies related to your work items.
Working 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.

What we are looking for:

Experience working on reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale.
Experience in modern web application technologies; experience in modern back-end engineering on Java and Spring Boot.
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.

Backend Developer