Role Summary
A high performing and influential individual contributor who leads by example while continuing to mentor junior engineers, interfaces consistently with tech leadership in the local organization, leads complex and vaguely defined projects, and stretches into team leadership skills based on current projects.
Experience & Education
- Experience: 8+ years for Bachelor's degree, 6+ years for Master's degree
- Worked in at least 2 multi quarter projects
- Worked in decentralized teams and projects
- Formally mentored at least 3 individuals
- Drove technical design end to end of at least 3 projects
- Contributed to engineering community through a blog post, open source contribution, tech talks, etc.
Functional / Technical Skills
- Has strength in multiple technologies or languages
- Justifies technology choices to technical and non technical observers
- Serves as an expert for a given domain
- Mentors other engineers (Individual Contributor I, II, III)
- Creates team project systems
- Guides integrations across teams within business unit
- Identifies and advocates for project quality via testing, monitoring and alerting at the project level
- Has a strong understanding of testing and monitoring tools and technologies
- Establishes operational excellence metrics at the team level
- Guides others in design of software that is easily testable and observable
- Identifies business problems at the team level and provides solutions
Role Expectations
- Extends outside of direct organization and collaborates with peers across a senior level organization
- Leads a community of practice and brings people together for shared learning
- Partners with the business to understand how own technology stack is tied to business outcomes
- Solves complex issues in own specific technical engineering area on day to day work
- Shares domain and industry knowledge between cross functional teams
- Serves as a guide to others by sharing and helping junior associates in their duties
- Is known to fill in for peer engineering management as need arises
- Possesses knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem
- Tests and maintains software applications and related programs and procedures using a variety of development tools following design requirements of customers
- Acts as a spokesperson for software design best practices
- Researches and recommends frameworks and architectural/code design patterns
- Identifies areas of improvement within the code and suggests solutions
- Advocates for operational excellence (unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability)
- Advises on technical limitations of software design for products and provides alternative solutions
- Facilitates collaboration with different stakeholders to develop effective solutions to issues
- Strives for optimum organizational efficiency by applying systems thinking, making recommendations about policies and processes
- Uses a whole systems approach to analyze issues and implements holistic solutions to ensure linkages between structure, people, process and technology
- Identifies outmoded methods of operation and designs plans to disrupt them non disruptively
- Reports on status of difficult or high level projects to local tech leadership via written or oral means, ensuring documentation is complete
Benefits
The role offers a full benefits package, including travel perks, generous time off, parental leave, a flexible work model, and career development resources.
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Equal Employment Opportunity
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