Staff Software Engineer - Application Stack

Calix; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Application Stack to join their remote team. The role involves scaling distributed applications, providing technical leadership, and developing high-performance user-centric applications. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields and over 10 years of software engineering experience, particularly with Java and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Practical understanding of GCP or AWS.
• Proficient in Java and familiar with Rust, Go, Python, NodeJS.

Responsibilities

• Scale distributed applications and make architectural trade-offs.
• Provide technical leadership and drive engineering best practices.
• Develop reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7.

Skills

Java

Problem Solving

Microservices Architecture

Cloud Platforms

Data Structures

Algorithms

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics

Tools

GCP

AWS

Kafka

Job description

This is a remote-based position in Mexico located in Mexico City or Monterrey.

Calix provides the cloud, software platforms, systems and services required for communications service providers to simplify their businesses, excite their subscribers and grow their value.

Our team is growing and we're looking for a Staff Software Engineer - Application Stack.

Please submit your resume in English - we can only consider applications submitted in this language.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
• Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7.
• Provide technical leadership, driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross functional, and company-wide critical programs. Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity.
• Work closely with product owners to understand, analyze product requirements, provide feedback, and deliver a complete solution.
• Technical leadership of software design in meeting requirements of service stability, reliability, scalability, and security
• Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of highly technical, hands-on software engineering experience.
• Practical understanding and usage of GCP (or AWS) Cloud platform and services.
• Expert in Java. Proficiency in other languages like Rust, Go, Python, NodeJS is a plus.
• Experience in designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale.
• Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Strong, creative problem-solving skills and ability to abstract and share details to create meaningful articulation.
• Proficient in design and implementation of microservices-based, API/Endpoint architectures
• Strong background in designing and developing event-based / pub-sub workflows & data ingestion solutions. Proficiency and hands on experience with Kafka at scale (or similar) desired.
• Strong background in transactional databases and good understanding and experience with no-SQL datastores.
• Organized and goal-focused, ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills

Location:

• This is a remote-based position in Mexico located in Mexico City or Monterrey.

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