Staff Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap:
• Identify and prioritise problems, gaps and technical debt in the product.
• Research and evaluate new technologies and methodologies to enhance the product and improve development efficiency.
• Define the optimal target architecture of the product, prepare a roadmap to implementing it, and support the team in actually implementing it.
• Continuously ensure the product is technically prepared for the next challenges, especially considering security, maintainability and scalability.
• Hands-on work:
• Support the engineers in hands-on work if needed.
• Co-own the product development:
• Work with Product Managers to understand product requirements and translate them into scalable and robust technical solutions.
• Advice the product manager on hard tradeoffs between scope, engineering capacity, and time constraints
• Lead the team through critical projects
• Raise the quality bar for the team:
• Define best practices and guide the team in maintaining them by participating in code and design document reviews.
• Coach, develop, and grow your engineering team.
• Set the bar high during engineering talent recruitment.
• Cross-team collaboration
• Maintain communication channels with other technical teams to avoid duplicate effort, incompatible solutions and solving problems other teams have already resolved.

Who You Are

• Experienced software developer: possessing 7+ years of professional software development experience of building and maintaining complex, large-codebase enterprise web applications. Experience with PHP and / or GO is a big plus.
• SDLC aware: possessing at least a high level understanding of the entire software development lifecycle: from requirement gathering down to deployment pipelines and infrastructure.
• Quality focused: able to go beyond the basic metrics and focus on the big / deep issues, which are not always measurable. Willing to dig deeper in search of root causes.
• Analytical software architect / designer: able to design, maintain and evolve complex software design and architecture, apply best practices and design patterns and understand crucial trade-offs in software development.
• API design expert: possessing understanding of / experience in designing clear, elegant, backward-compatible and future-proof APIs.
• Technical Leader: able to make technical decisions, resolve conflicts, mentor other engineers, and own the technical roadmap.
• Clear, concise communicator: possessing a high signal-to-noise ratio. Be able to communicate and collaborate with the engineers and non-technical audiences. 
• Problem solver and avoider: able to identify, troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges, and even better - be two steps ahead and avoid them.

Bonus Points

• Experience with working with strongly structured languages (Java, Kotlin, C#) is a plus.