Principal Software Engineer

Job description

Senior Software Developer Lead

We value:

• Writing code rather than documents

• Shipping products rather than talking about roadmaps

• Big features rather than changing button colors

If this sounds like you, let’s talk.

Who You Are:

We're looking for exceptional engineers who are passionate about our mission and have a strong desire to make a meaningful impact. The ideal candidate will be proficient in Python/Java or similar language; an expert in majority of language constructs, able to apply them fluently to solve complicated and complex problems and have experience with performance tuning.

What You’ll Do:

• Work in a fast paced, collaborative environment where ideas are discussed and challenged openly

• Deliver new features and improve reliability of our core services including the major read/write paths for customer intake, application screening, and information dissemination

• Identify major system bottlenecks, or flaws in business logic, and proactively address them

• Take ownership over core product problems, be able to come up with your own solutions that you love and prove through data that it is impactful at scale

• Work across the stack to solve problems, there is no reliance on another engineer or team to get something done for you

Required Skills and Education:

• Minimum of 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• Minimum of 10+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience (Java and/or Python)

• Minimum of 10+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

• Must have experience designing a non-trivial distributed system (multi-tier) - storage layers, caching layers, application layers, understanding of failure modes, expertise with applying a strangler-pattern to transform a system from a monolith to a microservice architecture

• Must have Microservice Architecture experience, especially with high throughput and low-latency systems

• Experience working with complex systems migration involving multiple phases with dark reads, dark writes, light reads, light writes

• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

• Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain and maintain Public Trust 6C

• Positions are remote, but some travel to DC, approx. 10-25%