What does a staff engineer do?

• Actively seek out difficult impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions that will enable the entire team to iterate faster
  
• Provide mentorship for all Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.
  
• Managing engineering tasks like research and design
  
• Determining department goals and creating implementation plans.
  
• Implementing process improvements
  

• Senior and/or Lead Experience in designing and building flexible, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures and solutions
  
• Strong fundamentals in backend engineering with JVM-based language, working on a complex distributed system
  
• Comfortable with event-based communication between microservices
  
• Experience using cloud provider platforms like AWS, and deploying distributed services to Kubernetes (Terraform knowledge is nice to have)
  
• Experience in raising the tech excellence bar and driving code quality through the best testing practices, pair programming and mentoring engineers
  
• Proficient in applying best practice Design patterns and Design principles when building your software (DDD experience is nice to have)
  
• Clear communication, presentation, and whiteboarding skills with a proven track record of building knowledge sharing culture across a fast-growing engineering organization
  
• Ability to influence others and facilitate agreement among stakeholders with different interests
  
• Database design for SQL and Non-SQL databases, typically My SQL, Cassandra, and Redis
  
• Knowledge in Elastic Search is a plus
  
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  Familiarity with Kafka and Spark is a plus
  
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  Experience in designing and implementing systems in DDD