Staff Software Engineer

June 8

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Gemini

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501 - 1000

Description

• Improve feedback cycles at all levels of development (examples: improving the experience of iterating on code locally, deploying to test environments, deploying to production). • Quickly ramp up on the existing architecture and product features. • Consistently deliver code that sets the standard for quality and maintainability. • Systematically think through potential design impacts on other teams and the company. • Review other software engineers’ code for correctness, style, and information security concerns. • Improve the performance, maintainability, and operations of the Gemini code base by engaging in refactoring and upgrade projects. • Identify and advocate for foundational work and practice improvements in their vertical. • Expertise in removing manual touch points via automated testing. • Experience mentoring less tenured engineers and onboarding new team members.

Requirements

• At least 8+ years of software engineering experience. • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field. • Excellent communication and collaboration skills. • Expertise in Scala or in a similar backend programming languages, such as Java or C#. • Genuinely passionate about working with developers and improving their experience and velocity. • The ability to work closely across teams and manage dependencies. • A customer and product-focused mindset, with the ability to make well-reasoned tradeoffs between speed and quality. • The ability to adapt and handle multiple competing priorities in collaboration with peers. • Experience leading other engineers on complex projects thereby owning scoping and estimation exercises, project planning and milestone, risk management and reporting, stakeholder management and providing key input to prioritization.

Benefits

• Competitive starting salary • A discretionary annual bonus • Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant • Comprehensive health plans • 401K with company matching • Paid Parental Leave • Flexible time off