Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for a hands-on Senior software engineer to join our high-performing team that is responsible for performing over 200 million transactions per day. This team is one of the core teams at Wiser responsible to crawl data from thousands of domains worldwide. The team is using best tools and technologies to achieve high availability of our Servies and uses domain driven design, event sourcing, CQRS, and other patterns to better serve the scale, reliability and many other needs of our largest customers. If you have a passion for distributed system design, optimization, data integration and want to solve some of the most complex challenges with performance and scale, this may be the role for you.

Essential Functions:

• Ship the value that matters most – you are extremely product-driven: you solve the highest value problems incrementally and in the ways that work best for our business.
• Execute, execute, execute – you deliver efficiently and effectively, you use metrics that drive success, you make high integrity commitments and follow through on them.
• Raise the bar – you care deeply about your craft and high-quality code, consistently looking for ways to improve the codebase and holding others accountable to the same standard.
• Collaborate and align – you are a great partner not just to the product team, but also to your peers for other product lines, architecture, data science, and infrastructure.
• Communicate clearly – you ensure everyone from the Senior Leadership team to the individual developers understands what needs to be done, what is being done, and when it will be done
• Bring new ideas to the table – you are a strategic contributor to our business.

Technologies We Use

• Python, Nodejs, Typescript, NestJs
• AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Memcache
• GraphQL, NATS , ArgoCD, native cloud development
• SNS, SQS, Kafka, Aws Lambda, load balancers and auto scalers

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering/development experience
• Proficiency with architecting and delivering solutions within a distributed software platform
• Strong proficiency in building high-performance, scalable applications using Python and Node Js.
• Design, develop and deploy robust and scalable full-stack web applications and APIs using NodeJs, Python, Mongo and AWS.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to understand project requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Proven ability to learn quickly, make pragmatic decisions, and adapt to changing business needs
• Proven ability to work and effectively, prioritize and organize your work and the work of team members in a highly dynamic environment
• Ability to design and estimate tasks, coordinate work with other team members during iteration planning
• Solid understanding of AWS, Linux and infrastructure concepts and thorough grasp of observability and monitoring tools such as Coralogix and Datadog.
• Conduct thorough testing, including unit testing and integration testing, to ensure the quality and reliability of the application.
• Optimize application performance by implementing caching mechanisms, efficient algorithms, and database indexing.
• Collaborate with DevOps engineers to deploy and maintain applications on AWS, ensuring high availability and scalability.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production issues, providing timely resolutions and proactive bug fixes.
• Stay up to date with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies related to full-stack development and propose improvements to the development process.
• Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and mentor junior developers to ensure code quality and continuous improvement.
• Outstanding organizational, communication, and relationship building skills conducive to driving consensus; able to work well in a cross-functional environment
• Ownership – feel a sense of personal accountability/responsibility to drive execution from start to finish.

Bonus Points

• Experience with Domain Driven Design
• Experience working on microservices and distributed system environments
• Excellent knowledge of Kubernetes, auto-scaling and performance
• Experience with C4 modeling
• Experience working within a retail or ecommerce environment.

Supervisory Responsibility

• None