COMPANY: The Company is setting out to become the market-leading software platform that services recycling haulers in all business areas.
LOCATION: USA. Open to remote for role.
The Company is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and enhance their platform. The ideal candidate will combine solid engineering expertise with product aptitude, is driven by exciting technical challenges that come with scale, and thrives in a fast-paced, iterative, and collaborative environment. We want to talk to you if you are unfazed by the idea of relentlessly refactoring and extending existing systems to make them more robust, maintainable, and scalable.
TECHNICAL EXPECTATIONS
● Have a critical role in building and maintaining robust, fault-tolerant, backend service layers
● Drive product development technical reviews of proposed technical design
● Write sustainable, testable, high-quality, high-performance code
● Augment productivity of teams building new features on the platform by creating reusable components and patterns
● Within an Agile environment, work as part of a cross-functional Scrum team and develop web-based software solutions
● Mentor engineers to become proficient developers using best software development practices and processes
● Participate in an engineering culture of “always learning” where the sharing and learning from failures is celebrated and the giving and receiving of constructive candid feedback is highly encouraged
TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS
● 5+ years building highly scalable projects involving cloud-based infrastructure design and implementation
● Good understanding of distributed data models with experience debugging distributed systems with high data loads
● High-level proficiency with Spring Boot (Java and/or Kotlin)
● Ability to understand product requirements and translate them into technical subtasks
● Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
● Strong experience writing performant SQL queries for relational database
● Proficiency in schema design in relational database (PostgreSQL)
● Deep experience with code versioning tools (GitHub).
● A deep sense of quality, and sharp engineering skills with strong computer science fundamentals
● Refactoring in microservice patterns
● Experience with building industry standard APIs with large throughputs
● High English language proficiency is a must.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
● A strong communicator who keeps connections open to avoid creating silos of information
● Exceptional ability to identify and break down problems to find unique solutions and remove single points of failure
● Takes ownership
● Strives to continuously learn and educate team members across the company about best development practices
EDUCATION
● Undergraduate degree in Computer Science (or similar) is required; advanced degree preferred.
SALARY:
- This is a contract position in LATAM
- Payments competitively to attract top talent in the market.