Senior Software Engineer II — Lead, Mentor & Scale Cloud Apps

Socket.dev; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Rocket is a Detroit-based company that provides simple, fast and trusted digital solutions for complex transactions. The role focuses on solving difficult software problems, releasing and validating software, mentoring teammates, and improving engineering practices within the team.

You will work with C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Angular, and AWS, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and demonstrate thought leadership across squads to drive quality and reliability.

Qualifications

• Expertise solving problems by developing software solutions that require innovation.
• Expertise with the programming languages, frameworks and platforms used by the team, such as C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Angular or AWS.
• Experience developing software modules or patterns used across multiple teams.
• Expertise designing integration tests, leading software releases, and providing ongoing support.
• Experience helping facilitate and create Agile software development practices and artifacts, such as user stories, backlog refinement, and sprint planning.
• Experience mentoring and developing others.
• Experience providing thought leadership to influence software development practices.

Responsibilities

• Solve difficult problems for the team using software and provide examples of new technology or patterns
• Release and validate software, developing new deployment patterns as necessary
• Lead software support, incident resolution and blameless reviews
• Develop code modules and patterns useful beyond the immediate team
• Conduct exploratory or experimental work to develop prototypes
• Guide code and design reviews for the team, helping establish standards
• Provide software documentation and demonstration for technical and non-technical audiences
• Mentor team members on any of the above
• Assist leadership with improving flow by identifying and helping address technical debt and process issues for the team

Skills

Problem solving

Software development

C#

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Angular

AWS

CI/CD

Agile

Mentoring

Thought leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Job description

Rocket is a Detroit-based company that provides simple, fast and trusted digital solutions for complex transactions. The role focuses on solving difficult software problems, releasing and validating software, mentoring teammates, and improving engineering practices within the team.

You will work with C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Angular, and AWS, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and demonstrate thought leadership across squads to drive quality and reliability.