Software Engineer

Job Title: Software Engineer

Location: Remote

Duration: 6+ Months Contract

Preferring someone with:

● Interest and experience within the hobby gaming industry

● Experience with eCommerce and high-volume transaction-based applications

As a Senior Software Engineer, you have a proven track record of success delivering projects of critical importance. You are comfortable with both greenfield development (including deployment pipelines) and working in existing microservices and monoliths. You write code that follows best practices, is maintainable, and is tested. You break down product requirements into units of work that can begin delivering value quickly and can easily be iterated upon. If you are someone who is a continuous learner, a problem solver, passionate about code quality and loves working with the latest and greatest technologies in a team environment – then this is the job for you!

The Impact You Will Make Here:

● You will build the backend (including datastores, APIs, and event streams) that will support our next-generation catalog, omni-channel inventory, price points, and orders systems.

● Ensure that our backend systems are highly performant and scalable to accommodate an ever growing amount of data and load.

● Work closely with internal teams integrating with our backend systems and ship iterative improvements based on their requirements and feedback.

What You Bring to the Team

● Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or a related field, or a combination of education and experience

● 7+ years of large-scale microservice application development (we’re using .NET Core, Docker, and Kubernetes in AWS), including experience with decomposing monolithic applications.

● Expert knowledge of multiple datastore technologies including both RDBMS (PostgreSQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis).

● Strong communication, leadership, and collaboration skills with teammates and stakeholders.

● A ship-often mindset and ability to break down requirements into components that can be released rapidly.

You’ll Go Beyond If You Have:

● Interest and experience within the hobby gaming industry

● Experience with eCommerce and high-volume transaction-based applications

● Experience with:

○ GitHub Actions

○ Terraform

○ Automated testing

○ Kafka

○ Data sharding strategies

○ AWS Technologies