Staff Software Engineer - Backend

June 26

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Description

• Provide technical leadership to a distributed engineering team to design new and enhance existing GlossGenius product offerings • Advise the GlossGenius leadership team on key technology and product roadmap considerations • Own problems from end to end, managing complexity, and engaging directly with stakeholders to think through everything from business impact to reliability and operability, to security; always approaching situations with a bias to action • Work with Product Managers to prioritize roadmap initiatives and be involved in the product ideation process • Continually drive our engineering standards (code reuse, documentation, testing, etc.) and levels of service forward • Take high-level business requirements and develop the technical details behind them. Collaborate with Product Managers to write epics and projects and ensure they’re appropriately broken down and prioritized, well understood by the team, and sized correctly for continuous deployment • Architect tools, services, and systems using well-accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling • Uphold GlossGenius’s high standards for engineering and product quality and mentor newer team members to do the same • Technical mentor to the growing engineering team

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, 3+ years of technical leadership experience • Depth of experience with backend development and distributed systems environments. Payments related experience is a plus! • Excellent product instincts, think about users first, and can make decisions rooted in the business context. Experience shipping consumer-facing products from 0 to 1, which is a plus!

Benefits

• Flexible PTO • Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums covered by GG • Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy • Retirement Savings Plan • Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses • Home office support • Team Bonding opportunities - as a distributed team, being able to build meaningful bonds both virtually and in person is incredibly important to us! We are constantly evaluating how we accomplish this and currently, teams are given opportunities to gather in person throughout the year