Staff Engineer

ComResource is looking for a Staff Engineer.

Responsibilities:

Software Development

• Design and implement high-quality software features and components that integrate into complex software solutions.
• Select appropriate design patterns to create maintainable, long-lived code optimized for long-term quality.
• Lead the product team in the identification and adoption of development best practices, leading to software that is logically well-structured, readable, maintainable, testable, and performant.
• Lead sizing and complexity evaluation discussions for initiatives.
• Facilitate effective team collaboration, guiding and mentoring peers in software quality, testing, and best practices.

Testing & Quality Assurance

• Define test practices for the product team covering all software layers of the application.
• Define and implement QA processes such as code review and static analysis.
• Create advanced testing strategies covering unit, system, and end-to-end tests as well as security, performance, regression, and automation testing.
• Coach teams on advanced testing techniques such as test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), and testing for positive and negative scenarios.

Data Management

• Devise data storage and access strategies that meet the needs of high-complexity features.
• Use knowledge of data modeling, data storage, and data transmission techniques to make appropriate design decisions.
• Design metadata to make applications more scalable and adaptable.
• Leverage transformational models and warehousing techniques to create unique measures and analytics.

Infrastructure & Integrations

• Design and implement microservices and API-based architecture using advanced understanding of cloud architecture and cloud-native design principles.
• Advise on and pilot specialized cloud services for analytics and AI/ML.
• Provide expert-level management of relational and non-relational database servers.
• Establish advanced monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions for infrastructure.
• Design systems for high availability, load balancing, and disaster recovery.

Operations

• Design and create highly dependable, highly available software systems through operationalization techniques such as monitoring, logging, metrics gathering, system health, and reporting.
• Improve operations culture by defining best practices, metric radiation, and identification of operational patterns.
• Utilize advanced techniques like blue/green deployments to minimize user impact.
• Set technology strategy through collaboration with product management.

Security & Compliance

• Lead the product team in development of software with a security-first mindset using knowledge of standard security protocols, common security risks, secure coding techniques, and appropriate usage and protection of sensitive information.
• Proactively design secure code employing best practices and advanced threat modeling.
• Complete regulatory compliance documentation and design advanced security safeguards.

Product & User Experience

• Lead the product team in the development of features with user experience in mind.
• Advocate for aligned user experiences and engage with UX teams when necessary.
• Lead the implementation of reusable design patterns across products.
• Guide the team in making informed technology and design debt decisions.

Requirements & Design

• Collaborate with stakeholders to design appropriate systems based on business needs and technical limitations.
• Write detailed technical stories and technical epics, and define and manage tech debt.
• Employ industry-recognized architectural patterns to create high-scale, high-reliability system designs.
• Manage transitions in both application and system architecture.

Essentials:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, or IT.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• High level of experience with multiple server-side programming languages; Java with Spring Boot experience preferred.
• High level of experience with multiple client-side programming languages; JavaScript React experience preferred.
• High level of experience developing, deploying, and supporting REST services and microservices.
• Experience using cloud services for storage and compute with the ability to apply infrastructure-as-code practices; Kubernetes and AWS experience preferred.
• Experience with relational databases, non-relational databases, and messaging systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven track record of collaborating with stakeholders and contributing to company-wide strategies.

Req ID: CG26319763