Staff Software Engineer (Backend)
Job Description
• Leading the design, architecture, and development of complex software systems, frameworks, and libraries, and ensuring that they meet the highest standards of quality, performance, and scalability.
• You will help develop a robust roadmap for ensuring engineering operational excellence
• Conducting performance analysis and optimization of software systems, and ensuring that they are performant and scalable.
• Participating in software development project planning and estimation, and ensuring that deadlines and milestones are met.
• Collaborating with other teams and stakeholders to define and refine software requirements, and ensuring that they are translated into actionable software development tasks.
• Providing technical leadership and guidance to junior engineers and other team members, and contributing to their professional growth and development.
• Participating in code reviews and ensuring that coding standards and best practices are followed across the team.
• Staying up-to-date with new technologies, frameworks, and best practices in software development, and sharing this knowledge with the team.
• Hiring the best talents for Quince.
Skills : (What do you need to demonstrate consistently)
You have excellent computer science fundamentals
• You have been working on backend web technologies for 8+ years
• You have at least 6+ years of experience working in Java, Spring/Spring Boot, SQL/NOSQL
• You have experience building and maintaining highly reliable distributed web applications that operate at a high scale.
• You have a good understanding of concurrency and multithreading
You have knowledge of design principles, the fundamentals of architecture, quality processes, and estimation techniques.
• You are an advocate for maintaining the highest standards in terms of code quality, latency, and observability.
• You understand the hustle of a startup and are good at handling ambiguity
• You can effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• You are a curious, quick learner, scrappy, and someone who loves to experiment
Quince provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applications for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran or military status, ****** orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
If you require reasonable accommodation during any part of the application or interview process, please contact accommodations@onequince.com. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible hiring process for all candidates.
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