Staff Software Engineer

Description

• 8–12 years of relevant professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated experience designing and delivering complex production systems.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Java with strong understanding of the Java ecosystem, concurrency, collections, JVM fundamentals, performance considerations, and modern development practices.
• Strong hands-on experience building production services using Spring Boot and related Spring technologies.
• Strong experience designing, implementing, versioning, and operating RESTful APIs.
• Hands-on experience developing modern web applications using ReactJS and the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and building applications on AWS.
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating microservices and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, object-oriented design, domain modeling, design patterns, SOLID principles, and clean-code practices.
• Strong knowledge of relational and/or NoSQL databases, data modeling, indexing, transactions, query optimization, and persistence patterns.
• Experience designing systems for high availability, scalability, reliability, resilience, and performance.
• Strong understanding of distributed-system concepts including consistency, concurrency, asynchronous processing, idempotency, retries, fault tolerance, and eventual consistency.
• Strong understanding of automated testing including unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience with CI/CD and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production systems using logs, metrics, traces, profiling, and other observability techniques.
• Strong debugging and root-cause-analysis skills.
• Demonstrated ability to independently drive technically complex projects from architecture through production.
• Demonstrated experience influencing technical direction and improving engineering practices beyond one’s own individual contributions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain architecture and technical trade-offs clearly.

Mandatory Technical Skills

The successful candidate must have strong hands-on engineering experience with:

Java | Spring Boot | REST APIs | ReactJS | AWS

Candidates should be comfortable being assessed on both system-design capability and hands-on implementation depth in these technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in one or more of the following areas would be advantageous:

• High-scale commerce, e-commerce, pricing, payments, catalog, promotions, or transaction-processing platforms.
• AWS services and architectural patterns involving compute, storage, databases, messaging, networking, monitoring, and security.
• DynamoDB and/or Amazon RDS.
• Event-driven and asynchronous architectures.
• Redis or other distributed caching technologies.
• Kubernetes / Amazon EKS and containerized workloads.
• CI/CD platforms and automated deployment strategies.