Senior Software Engineer & Technical Lead

We are looking for passionate people who enjoy working in a team-oriented environment. The most successful candidates value ownership and collaboration and are self-motivated, detail-oriented, problem solvers. This is an important role in our company and here are some of the things we will consider.

We are looking for someone who is

• A senior full stack custom software engineer (This means 15+ years of full-time custom software development experience delivering Enterprise Software)
• An effective communicator with Product and Business teams to take high-level tasks and transform them into shippable software
• Able to provide examples of scalable, performant code
• Confident in preferred architectures and tools
• Committed to code quality, ownership & accountability
• Unafraid of learning new technologies, standards, and techniques
• Able to lead and delegate when needed
• Excited about solving hard problems and building new skills and knowledge every day
• thoughtful about value and able to commit to outcome delivery (not just code delivery)

On the client side, we’re looking for someone with deep expertise of

• Web fundamentals like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
• CSS preprocessors like Sass, LESS, or PostCSS
• TypeScript

On the server side, we need someone with

• Deep knowledge of API design principles and best practices, caching, resiliency, RPC, REST, GraphQL, and HTTP
• Experience with and comprehension of PAAS, IAAS, and SAAS solutions
• Successful outcomes addressing scalability challenges and performance of server-side code
• Designing and developing horizontally scalable, resilient, and performing-under-load systems
• Extensive experience working with multi-hybrid heterogeneous data (i.e. being able to take data from multiple sources that come in multiple formats and turn it into usable data in production environments)
• The confidence and knowledge to effectively identify and communicate technical risks cross-team and implement performance improvement and security hardening of web applications and infrastructure
• Experience working in a service-oriented or microservice architecture

What you can expect to do

Being hired as an engineer at SitePen gives you the opportunity to work on basically everything we do. Depending on your skills and interests, you may do some or all of the following:

• Solution engineering
• Solution development and delivery
• Participate in coaching, training, and leveling up our customer's developers
• Enjoy a refreshing work-life balance