Staff Software Engineer (LAMP)

Staff Software Engineer (LAMP Stack)

Permanent

Fully Remote

Must be located in Atlanta, GA

Must be a US citizen or Green Card holder

A Staff Engineer is a senior-level software development professional responsible for designing the overall technical structure of software systems, making critical design decisions, selecting appropriate technologies, and ensuring the system is scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business needs; they act as a technical leader, guiding development teams by setting coding standards, best practices, and overseeing the implementation process throughout the software development lifecycle. While working towards delivering reliable, efficient, high-quality software and hardware solutions, a Staff Software Engineer is writing impeccable solutions and delivering features, enhancements, bug fixes and other deliverables on time.

• Must be located in Dallas or Atlanta
• Team of 8-10 Software Engineers in India
• This person will build and prototype positions for the dev teams
• Tech Stack: LAMP Stack - must have experience on AWS
• Must have designed applications using Microservices architecture
• This person will set perform code reviews and set the coding standards for the team-it is a true leader
• 70% arch/design and 30% development/support of product
• Reports to VP of Engineering

Responsibilities:

• System Analysis and Design: Analyzes system requirements or specifications, design and architect complex systems, translates them into actionable work units for the team to conceptualize and develop high quality software using the established coding standards and development best practices.
• Technical Leadership: Mentors, teaches, and improves the productivity of other Software Engineers, ensuring best practices are followed. Leads technical initiatives and/or creates architecture and/or design as needed to meet the requirements, integrate disparate systems, or manage changing technologies.
• Communication: Anticipates and communicates blockers, delays, and cost ballooning within their team’s projects, before they require escalation. Ensures expectations with their team and external stakeholders are clarified between all parties involved.
• Technology Selection: Researches and recommends software tools/frameworks/products and/or emerging technologies as needed for a solution.
• Code Quality: Enforces the development of unit tests, automated tests and performance tests as needed to ensure quality, supporting general debugging and isolating areas for improvement.
• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation like technical designs, development/coding standards, implementation manuals, support manuals/playbooks, performance testing guidelines, etc. as needed to run/support the software
• Collaboration: Collaborates with cross functional to analyze, design, develop, test and deliver high quality shareable components.
• Technical Strategy: Influence the strategic technical direction of the company, contributing to the development of long-term technology roadmaps for the product.
• Innovation: Drive innovation within the organization by staying up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies and applying them to create cutting-edge solutions. Conduct system analysis and proof of concepts, with limited leadership involvement, to determine the best design or solution.
• Security: Actively works with the security team, as well as their own team, to refine their product’s approach to security based on the organization's security strategy. Fosters a security first mindset within their own team and leads by example.
• Performance Optimization: Drives monitoring work on their product based on the organization's monitoring philosophy. Based on the knowledge of the operational data for the product domain, drive changes to the product’s components to achieve stability and performance improvements. Captures and analyzes performance test metrics and provides operational documentation.

What You’ll Bring:

• A minimum of 1-2 years of experience as a Staff Engineer/Technical Architect/Technical Lead.
• A minimum of 10 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or 13+ years of equivalent development experience. Some barriers to entry exist at this level, requiring department review.
• Excellent communication, problem solving and technical leadership skills.
• Experience in various technologies, operation systems and cloud technologies like React, Angular, MySQL, PHP, Linux, AWS, Node.js
• Experience with Queues, Caches, CDN’s, and other technologies used for building scalable web applications.
• Proven technical leadership experience in architecting and building SaaS/E-Commerce web and mobile applications.
• Expert knowledge and experience on the fundamentals and operating principles of varied system architectures such as SOA, Client/Server, Web Applications, Mobile Platforms, Batch, etc.