Senior Software Engineer

Jobtailor; Oregon (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a seasoned software engineer to design and build scalable applications across multiple digital channels. You will contribute to architecture decisions, write robust code, and ensure performance while participating in all scrum ceremonies.

You will translate designs into working software using React on the frontend and Python with PostgreSQL/BigQuery on the backend, with familiarity in ML/NLP topics and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
• 5 years proficiency in design and analysis of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns for scalable, highly available systems.
• 5 years in at least one modern programming language (Java, Python, JavaScript, ACE, IIB/ITX, Informatica preferred).
• 5 years understanding of web services technologies such as REST, HTTPS, JSON.
• 5 years with general purpose languages (Java, Python, Django/Flask, C/C++, C#, JavaScript, or Go).
• 5 years defining system architectures and evaluating trade-offs for short-term execution and long-term capability.
• 5 years translating designs into working applications.
• 5 years writing fault-tolerant, efficient, maintainable code.
• 1 year working with ML, esp. NLP, MT, deep neural networks.
• Proven use of React frontend and Python/PostgreSQL/BigQuery backend.
• Strong background in asynchronous processing and messaging (Celery, GCP Pub/Sub).
• Solid CI/CD and deployment experience (GitLab CI/CD to on-premise, OpenShift, and GCP).

Responsibilities

• Build scalable software across digital channels to serve customers.
• Take an enterprise-wide architectural view of solutions and technical execution.
• Design and create engineering specifications for software applications.
• Write code adhering to coding standards and perform code reviews.
• Generate ideas and explore technical solutions to achieve features.
• Monitor technical progress and safeguard scalability and performance.
• Participate in all scrum ceremonies and assist sprint planning.
• Communicate blockers to the Scrum Master.
• Drive story creation (DoD, Acceptance Criteria, estimation).
• Monitor progress against production schedule and provide updates.

Skills

Algorithm design

Data structures

Design patterns

REST/JSON/HTTPS

Asynchronous processing

React frontend

Python backend

Distributed systems

ML/NLP familiarity

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Java

Python

JavaScript

ACE

IIB/ITX

Informatica

React

PostgreSQL/BigQuery

Celery

GCP Pub/Sub

GitLab CI/CD

OpenShift

GCP

Job description

Responsibilities

• Building scalable software applications across all digital channels to serve customers.
• Taking an enterprise-wide, architectural view of the solutions and the technical execution of products.
• Responsible for designing and creating engineering specifications for software applications and programs.
• Responsible for designing & writing code that adheres to coding standards.
• Performs code reviews.
• Idea generation and exploring appropriate technical solutions to achieve product features.
• Monitor technical process against project plan while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance.
• Participate in all scrum ceremonies, assisting in sprint planning and completing required sprints.
• Communicate any issues/blockers to the Scrum Master.
• Drive story creation (i.e. DoD, Acceptance Criteria, estimation).
• Monitor work against production schedule and provide progress updates.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a closely related field
• 5 years proficiency in design and analysis of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns in the building and deploying of scalable; highly available systems
• 5 years in at least one modern programming languages (Java, Python, JavaScript, ACE, IIB/ITX, Informatica preferred)
• 5 years understanding of web services technologies such as REST, HTTPS, JSON
• 5 years with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, Python (Django/Flask), C/C++, C#, Objective C, JavaScript, or Go
• 5 years in defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility trade-offs for optimizing short term execution while planning for long term technical capabilities
• 5 years translating design mockups, prototypes and user stories into working applications
• 5 years of ability to produce code that is fault-tolerant, efficient, and maintainable
• 1 year of working with Machine Learning esp. in Natural Language Understanding, Machine Translation, Deep Neural Networks and related fields
• Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and maintain robust applications using React for the frontend and Python with PostgreSQL/BigQuery for the backend
• Strong proficiency in asynchronous processing and messaging: Hands-on experience with Celery and GCP Pub/Sub for building scalable and reliable distributed systems.
• Comprehensive understanding of CI/CD and deployment strategies: Experience with GitLab CI/CD for automating deployments across on-premise, OpenShift, and GCP cloud environments