[6 months contract, renewable up to 3 years]
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play the role of a technical lead of squads.
Additionally, you will drive the design, implementation & delivery of one or more products owned by your squads.
Your responsibilities will include:
•Drive strategic initiatives that maximize the team's positive impact on the public good, including taking an active role in team delivery of product and engineering goals.
•Delivering high-quality, maintainable, and reusable software systems
•Champion engineering best practices and establish tools to optimize team effectiveness and impact, including providing technical contributions and leadership to software engineers, coaching and mentoring them toward fostering a culture of technical excellence
•Influencing team direction towards achievement of high-priority initiatives (to maximize our impact on the public good)
•Establishing practices and tools to encourage a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact.
•Independently managing external (to the team) dependencies related to your work items.
•Working with other leaders to create a long-term technical plan and roadmap for the assigned squads, and for other squads as needed. Updating the roadmap regularly to meet future product/business needs and infrastructure requirements.
•Helping with recruitment, particularly for senior hires.
What we look out for:
•Experience working on reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale.
•Experience in Java and Javascript is required.
•Experience in modern front-end engineering on Next.Js/React.js and Java/TypeScript on the backend is preferred.
•Have a strong sense of what it means to be a technical leader, particularly as it relates to the suite of soft skills beyond just your technical chops.
•Passion towards engineering excellence; you deeply understand that software engineering is a team sport, and you take pride in the craftsmanship aspect of software engineering.
•Passion towards working for public good with interest.
•Interest and experience in coaching and growing junior engineers.- High level of self awareness
•Minimum 7 years in relevant experience