Senior Software Developer Relations

Role Summary
A high performing and influential individual contributor who leads by example while continuing to mentor junior engineers, interfaces consistently with tech leadership in the local organization, leads complex and vaguely‑defined projects, and stretches into team leadership skills based on current projects.

Experience
8+ years for Bachelor's, 6+ years for Master's. Worked in at least 2 multi‑quarter projects. Worked in decentralized teams and projects. Formally mentored at least 3 individuals. Drove technical design end‑to‑end of at least 3 projects. Contributed to engineering community through a blog post, open source contribution, tech talks, etc.

Functional / Technical Skills
Has strength in multiple technologies or languages. Justifies technology choices to technical and non‑technical observers. Serves as an expert for a given domain. Makes well‑defined technology choices. Mentors other engineers (IC I, II, III). Creates team project systems. Guides integrations across teams within a business unit. Understands highly complex systems and designs moderately complex systems. Identifies and advocates for project quality via testing, monitoring and alerting at the project level. Has a strong understanding of testing and monitoring tools and technologies. Establishes operational excellence metrics at the team level. Guides others in design of software that is easily testable and observable. Has a strong understanding of how team goals fit a business need. Identifies business problems at the team level and provides solutions.

Role Expectations
Extends outside of the direct organization and collaborates with peers across a senior level organization. Leads a community of practice and brings people together for shared learning. Partners with the business to have a clear understanding of how the technology stack is tied to business outcomes and the bottom line. Conducts day‑to‑day work and solves complex issues in its specific technical engineering area. Shares domain and industry knowledge between cross‑functional teams. Serves as a guide to others by sharing and helping junior associates in their duties. Is known to fill in for peer engineering management as needed. Possesses knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem. Tests and maintains software applications and related programs and procedures using a variety of development tools following design requirements of the customer. Acts as a spokesperson for software design best practices. Researches and recommends frameworks and architectural/code design patterns. Identifies areas of improvement within the code and suggests solutions. Advocates for operational excellence (unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability). Provides alternative solutions to technical limitations of software design for products. Facilitates collaboration with different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop effective solutions. Strives for optimum organizational efficiency by applying systems thinking across boundaries and making recommendations about policies/processes. Uses a whole systems approach to analyze issues and implements holistic solutions by ensuring linkages between structure, people, process and technology. Identifies out‑moded methods of operation with current systems and designs plans to disrupt them in a non‑disruptive manner. Reports on the status of difficult or high‑level projects to local tech leadership via written or oral means, ensuring documentation is complete.

Benefits
We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time‑off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources.

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