What you'll do

• Work cross-functionally with the Product, Design, Operations, and Backend teams across the squads to ship world-class products and features with minimal guidance.

• Design and develop highly scalable, available, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems with minimal guidance.

• Write code that's clear, concise, performant, tested, and easily understood by others.

• Actively mentor associate software engineers in the team.

• Partner with the product management team to execute the feature roadmap.

• Work with the Head of Engineering and overall backend teams to design and execute the engineering roadmap.

• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

• Help debug production issues across services and levels of the stack

What you'll need

• Strong software engineering skills in PHP and/or Go, or equivalent.

• Solid understanding of algorithms, algorithmic complexities, OOP, design patterns, and clean code.

• Ability to estimate and execute releases with a good degree of predictability.

• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories and/or tasks for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risk.

• Good in business acumen, excellent problem skills, and broad understanding of software and system design.

• Experience in handling or scaling a system that handles high traffic/large data sets/high concurrency.

• Experience in CI/CD like Jenkins/Travis CI/TeamCity and related technologies is a plus.

• Technical leadership experience is a plus.

• Knowledge and experience in migrating a monolith to service-oriented architecture is a plus.