What will I be doing?
● Creating change in a complex system. The technical lead for a team, making well-
considered decisions around patterns, principals, frameworks, languages and tools,
thinking through and mitigating for potential cascading impacts of those changes.
● Acting as a trusted advisor. Partner with PMs, engineers and customer-facing teams to
negotiate appropriate product architectures with consideration for user needs,
business goals and technology constraints.
● Designing and developing well-architected systems. Understand and contribute to our
product source code and cloud infrastructure.
● Designing holistically, delivering iteratively. Break down system-wide architecture
recommendations into small, intelligently planned increments for delivery.
● Advocate for technology needs. Translate technology risk into opportunity during
product and technology roadmap discussions and advise on the required areas of
focus.
● Coach and mentor. Thoughtfully lead the team around you and assist with career
development of less experienced staff on our teams.
What we’re looking for:
● Demonstrated experience as a lead or staff engineer, with at least 8 years experience
in technology roles
● Experience working on technical leadership teams involved in roadmap planning,
hiring and staff capacity planning
● You’re opinionated on what “great code” looks like and you’re passionate about code
quality
● Experience working on complex systems and cloud architectures
● Excellent understanding of the Java programming language, frameworks such as
Spring & SpringBoot and frontend frameworks like React.
● Excellent understanding of data structures and database design
● Excellent knowledge of AWS services, design patterns and practices
● Highly effective at communicating, and comfortable whiteboarding architecture ideas
with teams of engineers, product managers, and business analysts
● Desire to challenge the status quo and maturity to know when to compromise
● Respect for and ability to collaborate and influence team members from all disciplines
and at all levels throughout the business.
