Senior Software Engineer - remote

Openforce
Posted 3 years ago  • Remote in US
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Overview: As Senior Software Engineer, you will join a team of mainly full stack engineers with exposure to everything, collaborating with product and other technology leaders to jointly chart the platform roadmap.

General Summary: Our team builds and maintains all client facing interfaces (e.g. web app, APIs, etc.) to enable the independent contractor model through the platform. We are mostly full stack engineers with exposure to back-end, front-end, and everything in between. The collaborative nature of the team allows you to constantly learn new things. You’ll work closely with other software engineers across the engineering organization to innovate on our platform architecture, and to continue building a world-class technology platform. To be successful in this role, you should be confident contributing to the development of our products, making recommendations for solutions and new technology approaches, and pushing for better software practices.

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as technical/development lead on specific initiatives
  • Review architecture and technical design on key projects
  • Collaborate with Product to validate use cases and requirements
  • Lead code quality and testing across engineering teams
  • Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers
  • Influence and evangelize new software technologies to other team members
  • Work closely with other software architects to make engineering wide architecture recommendations and decisions
  • Experiment with new ways of visualizing large amounts of data
  • Ensure our technology stack stays current
  • Passionate about building a world-class technology platform

Key Competencies and Skills:

  • Technical Expertise: Possesses an in-depth knowledge and skill in a technical area
  • Problem Solving: Frames problems before trying to solve them. Breaks down problems and identifies all of their facets, including hidden or tricky aspects
  • Analytical Thinking: Weights the costs, benefits, risks, and chances for success in making a decision
  • Fostering Innovation and Teamwork: Sponsors the development of new products, services, methods, or procedures while working cooperatively with others to produce initiative solutions
  • Developing Others: Provides helpful, behaviorally specific feedback to others and gives people assignments that will help develop their abilities
  • Results Orientation: Maintains commitment to goals in the face of obstacles and frustrations;develops challenging but achievable goals

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
  • 10+ years of software development experience
  • High degree of comfort in Elixir, ASP or other functional or object-oriented language
  • Experience with scalable, high performance, multi-tier, enterprise application development
  • Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as React
  • Experience with data storage technologies
  • Experience with queuing and messaging frameworks
  • Experience with service-oriented architecture
  • Keen sense of information architecture and visual design
  • Motivated by writing fast, scalable code with testability in mind
  • Excited by working in a fast-paced environment

The Perks

  • Continued training and career development
  • Full Benefits Package including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, and 401k
  • Vacation and Holiday pay
  • Casual dress code and creative office environment

Job Type: Full Time Exempt

Reports to: Director of Engineering

Salary: DOE

Travel: Up to 5% quarterly or as needed

Passion, excellence, respect, accountability and having fun are just the beginning. Openforce believes that our culture is at the core part of what makes us successful. We are looking forward to hiring someone who understands good culture and will help shape it as it evolves.