Senior Software Engineer - VDR

Position Summary    

Location: This is either a hybrid position based in our Denver, CO office or a fully remote position within the Continental United States. If fully remote, In-person visits to the Denver headquarters are required, on average three times per year.

Compensation: The salary range for this position is between $145,000.00 - $160,000.00, depending on experience level.

Primary Responsibilities    

• Deep understanding of complex systems. Can optimize for specific needs, including performance, resilience, observability, testability, and more 

• Develops complex, high-quality features. Mentors teammates to improve software development practices. 

• Designs complex, large-scale systems. Considers scalability and fault tolerance. 

• Can write, debug, and maintain all types of automated tests. Advocates for testing strategy. 

• Implements and optimizes CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation 

• Integrates and optimizes AI tools into the development process, establishing best practices and mentoring others on effective AI usage 

• Communicates effectively with technical and non-technical audiences. 

• Mentors and guides team members, facilitates discussions, exemplifies empathy, openness and adaptability. 

• Bridges gaps between teams, drives cross-team initiatives, and resolves complex dependencies. 

• Leads interview sessions, creates documentation to help new hires ramp up. 

• Actively mentors and guides Engineering teammates. 

• Influences the team's technical direction. 

• Develops and champions the team's technical strategy. Drives technical culture within the team and department. 

• Identifies, evaluates and experiments with new technologies that could benefit the team. 

• Leads small to medium-sized projects. Anticipates change and adapts effectively. 

• Drives continuous improvement within the team. Seeks to reduce intrinsic and extraneous cognitive load. 

• Leads process and practice improvement on the team. 

• Conducts high quality code reviews and identifies areas for improvement. 

• Creates clear and concise technical documentation for code, systems, and processes 

• Identifies edge cases, asks insightful questions, and can explain business use cases to others. 

• Identifies solutions that balance technical and business needs. Can explain how technical decisions affect business outcomes. 

• Effectively synthesizes requirements, team goals and organizational context to analyze, inform and make important decisions. Anticipates future challenges and plans for them. 

• Leads technical projects, takes ownership of critical components, systems and practices. 

 Required Qualifications & Skills  

• 5+ years of experience as a full stack engineer 

• 3+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails 

• Expertise creating robust CI/CD pipelines 

• Expertise with modern cloud native development (Docker, Kubernetes, Knative) 

• Experience leading collaborative software design sessions 

• Experience leading continuous improvement of Engineering practices 

• Eagerness and willingness to learn new technologies 

• Expertise with version control systems 

• Expertise with RESTful web services 

• Strong understanding of SOLID principals, design patterns 

• Expertise using database technologies and patterns 

Desired Characteristics    

• Acts as part of a team 

• Self-motivated 

• Strong communicator 

• Collaborative 

• Drives change and improvement 

• Adaptable/Flexible 

Physical Requirements/Special Demands    

• Must be available to work standard business hours, and occasional nights/weekends.   

• Travel may be necessary for team events 

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This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without advanced notice.   

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