Job Title: Ecommerce SWE L3 (Senior Engineer) Department: Ecommerce Engineering Reports to: President of Engineering - Ecom Location: Remote
General Job Summary:
A senior software engineer is a highly skilled and experienced professional who is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining complex software systems. They are expected to be proficient in a variety of programming languages and have a strong understanding of computer science fundamentals. In this role, the senior software engineer will work closely with other members of the engineering team to define system architecture, develop high-quality code, and ensure that software systems are scalable, maintainable, and reliable. They will also be responsible for mentoring and providing guidance to junior members of the team.
Some key responsibilities of a senior software engineer may include:
Designing and implementing complex software systems
Developing and maintaining high-quality code
Defining system architecture and ensuring that software is scalable, maintainable, and reliable
Collaborating with other members of the engineering team to solve challenging technical problems
Mentoring and providing guidance to junior members of the team
Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies
Success in this role requires a combination of strong technical skills, excellent problem-solving abilities, and the ability to work well in a team. A senior software engineer should be a self-starter who is comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field is typically required for this position, as well as several years of experience in software development.
Skills:
Technical skills:
Consistently writes production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers, and accounts for edge cases and errors. Understands when it is appropriate to leave comments, but biases towards self-documenting code.
Understands the testing pyramid, and writes unit tests as well as higher level tests in accordance with it.
Always writes tests to handle expected edge cases and errors gracefully, as well as happy paths.
Proficient at using systematic debugging to diagnose all issues located to a single service. Uses systematic debugging to diagnose cross service issues, sometimes with help from more senior engineers.
Is aware of the organization's monitoring philosophy. Helps tune and change the monitoring on their team accordingly.
Is aware of the operational data for their team’s domain and uses it as a basis for suggesting stability and performance improvements.
Understands their team's domain at a high level and can gather sufficient context to work productively within it.
Has expertise in a portion of their team's domain.
Consistently designs code that is aligned with the overall service architecture. Utilizes abstractions and code isolation effectively.
Approaches all engineering work with a security lens. Actively looks for security vulnerabilities both in the code and when providing peer reviews.
Reviews tasks critically and ensures they’re appropriately sized for continuous integration and incremental delivery.
Handles risk, change, and uncertainty within their personal scope of work effectively. Decides and acts responsibly without having the total picture during routine business and when in high pressure situations.
Ensures their commitments are realistic, understands their priority and urgency, and delivers upon them accordingly.
Anticipates and communicates blockers, delays, and cost ballooning for their work before they require escalation.
Ensures expectations within their team are clarified between all parties involved.
Delivery:
Delivers praise and constructive feedback to their team, teammates, and manager in a useful manner.
Delivers feedback to their team's business stakeholders when opportunities arise.
Actively seeks out feedback from their teammates and manager, and works to use feedback that they receive as a tool for growth.
Communicates effectively, clearly, concisely in written and verbal form both technical and non technical subjects, and in an audience-oriented way. Actively listens to others and ensures they are understood. Pays attention to nonverbal communication.
Sometimes helps their teammates overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks. Gives or shares credit where due.
Feedback, communication, collaboration:
Strives to be objective and reflects on their own biases when making decisions. Holds themselves accountable for decisions and outcomes.
Has conversations based on organizational strategy and principles with their teammates when appropriate to ensure team alignment. Strongly oriented towards goals and ensures their team is continuously working towards their shared goals.
Regularly thinks about team practices and processes and discusses improvements with the team.
Mentors their teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner. Seeks out mentoring opportunities specifically to create team redundancy and backfill ability.
Leadership
Has a thorough understanding of their team's domain, and how it contributes to overall business strategy.
Has a basic understanding of adjacent teams' business domains.
Understands the organization's engineering strategy. Usually involved in discussions about the implications for their team.
Strategic impact
Thoroughly understands the business model in relation to their current product focus area. Sometimes participates in roadmap feedback with the product team. Looks for opportunities to simplify product & technical design.
Qualifications
We are looking for someone with the following qualifications:
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related field
3+ years of experience as a software engineer
Strong proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Go or Javascript
Experience with web development frameworks, such as React
Familiarity with cloud computing platforms, such as Google Cloud
Experience with agile development methodologies
