Lead Server Engineer - TG

Lead Server Engineer

Overview

Topgolf is looking for a Lead Scala Server Engineer to help design and develop server applications that support technology products and interface with existing Topgolf technologies. Bring your curiosity, expertise of the server landscape and passion for delivering robust, stable software. You will be working with a small and close-knit team of engineers, designers and product managers to build the next generation of products for Topgolf.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

• Mentor and coach other engineers
• Provide technical guidance and oversight on multiple projects
• Design and implement new backend features in a scalable and high-performing manner
• Collaborate with design, client and QA teams to guide features from conception to deployment
• Oversee and evolve existing system architecture
• Maintain, optimize and debug existing code base
• Deploy, evaluate performance, optimize and test software on the server
• Integrate third-party APIs and/or platforms

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of Java or other OOP programming language
• 3+ years of Scala experience
• 3+ Experience designing and maintaining RDBMS schemas and queries
• 1+ years guiding other engineers and multiple projects
• Experience producing server applications through the full product lifecycle with responsibility for major features
• Excellent problem-solving skills and judgment
• Proficient in debugging and performance optimizations
• Highly-motivated self-starter with a passion for making high quality software
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong sense of ownership and drive
• Positive, enthusiastic attitude with ability to interact with cross-departmental groups

Pluses

• Experience developing customer-facing products, in particular with a large audience
• Experience developing Reactive, message-driven systems
• Experience with Akka, Actors, Streams
• Experience with Protocol Buffers and gRPC
• Experience with MySQL
• Experience with JPA or Hibernate ORM
• Experience with Redis
• Experience deploying software in a cloud-based, Linux environment

ADA
The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of the job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some incumbents assigned to the job to perform a different combination of duties.
 
EEO Statement
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