What you will be working on:
As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer, you will play the role of a technical lead in one of our squads.
You will play a pivotal role in leading one of our squads. Additionally, you will drive the strategic design, implementation, and delivery of multiple products owned by your squad. Your responsibilities will include:
- Taking a leadership role in team delivery of product and engineering goals
- Delivering high-quality, maintainable, and reusable software systems.
- Making significant technical contributions and providing technical leadership to software engineers by coaching and mentoring through engineering best practices.
- Influencing team direction towards the achievement of high-priority initiatives to maximize our impact on the public good.
- Establishing practices and tools to foster a strong engineering culture and maximize engineering effectiveness and impact.
- Independently managing external (to the team) dependencies related to your work items.
- Collaborating 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.
- Leading recruitment efforts, particularly for senior hires.
What we are looking for:
- Experience working on reasonably large, high-availability software systems that have operated at scale.
- Experience in modern full-stack web application technologies; 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.
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