Senior Full Stack Engineer

This is a remote position.

Requirements

• At least eight years of Software Engineering Experience with a minimum of five years doing senior engineering work such as solution design architecture code review full stack engineering or similar tasks..
  
• You have very good written communication skills fluent written English and comfortable clear spoken English.
  
• Must have availability that overlaps with our clients at least 4 hours/day in New York (UTC 5) and at least 1 hour/day in California (UTC 8)
  
• You can write in multiple languages fluently efficiently and reliably and are expert in writing in Ruby or Node.js and React (or similar modern JS framework).
  
• Help maintain professional standards for the entire organization.
  
• Has deep substantial expertise in multiple programming environments.
  
• Capable of running and directing small teams of engineers for substantial projects.
  
• Capable of executing projects across multiple technical domains ( full stack data architecture devops etc).
  
• Has an interest and ability to learn new technical subjects when you need to solve new types of problems.
  
• Can pursue investigation and problem solving into issues to resolve them and can also recognize when it s more efficient to ask for help vs push forward to solve a problem. Believes that all technical problems are solvable with enough effort.
  
• Has humanity and kindness with regards to others and their own abilities. Seeks to help others; seeks to share what they know; wants to see their work have impact in the world.
  
• Substantial practical expertise in implementing:
  

• Can design complex data structure implementations.
  
• Can write SQL queries and make performance optimizations.
  
• Can implement standard connectivity to/from SQL servers.
  
  DevOps
• Deployment and CI/C
  
• Has a solid knowledge of designing and implementing devops pipelines using tools such as docker kubernetes or related systems.
  
• Can design basic secure (cloud) networks for web server type systems.
  
• Working experience with AWS major products such as EC2 S3 Route53 RDS Gateway lambda etc.
  
• Can develop strategies for managing cached data to optimize performance using tools like Fastly Cloudfront Cloudflare other CDNs Varnish or Redis.
  
• Can develop or integrate coding projects with cloudbased architecture such as AWS API Gateway Route66 (and DNS generally) SSL certificates cloudbased private network routing etc.
  
• Understands basic infosec principles to design evaluate and operate systems securely.
  
  Solutions Design / Systems Architecture
  
• Can work with business analysts product managers and senior executives to understand the business problems and propose adapt and design technical solutions to meet those needs.
  
• Can translate technical concepts to nontechnical audiences and simplify complex concepts without oversimplifying.
  
• Ability to explain technical issues in actionable ways to nontechnical people.
  
• Can design and configure/operate the technical systems required to implement a technical solution.
  
• Understands cryptography and security enough to design systems that use existing login/identity standards securely (OAuth2 JWTs etc).
  
• Avoids overly complex technology solutions preferring complexity levels based on the needs of specific projects.
  
• Recognizes that the best technical solution is not always the best business solution and can negotiate with stakeholders accordingly.
  
• Is not overly enamored with brand new technologies and has the maturity and experience to evaluate new technology against existing solutions objectively.
  
• Can write clear simple specifications to reflect how a system will be built.
  
  Testing and Reliability Engineering
• Understands TDD vs manual QA Engineering and where each is appropriate in developing software.
  
• Insists on building automated testing frameworks when necessary for software pipelines and knows how to implement enough testing without relying on a test everything approach.
  
• Can design functional monitoring solutions for uptime management.
  
• Capable of implementing test automation using tools such as Cypress Postman Swagger/OpenAPI.
  
• Can write developer docs for a project to assist a new engineer in learning to develop in a codebase.
  
• Can define uptime failure recovery documentation: what to do when a system fails.
  
• Can debug and analyze production systems for faults.
  
• Can conduct performance testing using K6 New Relic Skylight JMeter and similar tools to find performance issues design faults and system optimizations.
  

Bonus skills

• Experience in Ed Tech Field (Education projects)
  
• Experience with Project Management tools such as Github boards Trello Asana or Jira. (We generally use Github boards.
  

Benefits

• Work Location: Remote
  
• 5 days working