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Senior/ Staff Full Stack Software Engineer

Senior/ Staff Full Stack Software Engineer

CompanyPolly
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
Salary$Not Provided – $Not Provided
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s, Master’s
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • Proven track record of success in large enterprise SAAS Software, distributed systems, scalability, and continuous development
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 6-9 years’ experience OR Master’s degree and 4-7 years’ experience
  • Senior level skill-set with core programming languages (Python, Java, C#, C/C++, etc.)
  • Strong expertise in modern frontend technologies—JavaScript, TypeScript, and frameworks like React or Vue, with a focus on building scalable and user-friendly applications.
  • Experience working with distributed systems, inter-service communication protocols, and APIs (e.g. REST, NSQ, etc.)
  • Experience developing transactional systems, where concurrency, race conditions, and data consistency are a concern
  • Experience working with relational databases and SQL

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain mission-critical services using Python, Django, JavaScript, Vue.js, PostgreSQL and AWS
  • Take ownership of technical solutions from planning to production deployment
  • Diagnose and resolve technical problems; build unit tests and automation to ensure the quality of your features
  • Create maintainable code through thoughtful documentation, clean architecture, and comprehensive testing
  • Shape the architecture by contributing to key decisions about the platform’s current design and future direction.
  • Actively participate in interviewing and evaluating new team members
  • Guide engineering practices and establish pragmatic standards for code quality
  • Support junior team members through mentorship and technical guidance
  • Review code, help drive technical excellence through best practices and latest tools
  • Maintain a working knowledge of advances and trends in programming and technology

Preferred Qualifications

  • Deploying into a public cloud service (AWS, GCP, etc.)
  • Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems and building scalable/redundant services
  • Experience with service monitoring, metrics, alerting, log aggregation, and tracing
  • Experience with functional/acceptance testing