Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Portland, OR, United States

This is a remote position.

Walker Bowen Talent Partners, a trusted advisor in the permanent placement placement staffing industry, has partnered with a long-time client to hire a Staff Software Engineer - Backend to join their growing team.

The Position

Do you have experience in a fast-paced startup style environment? Do you excel when faced with product-focused challenges and care as much about building great user experiences as you do writing high quality code?

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer - Backend to join our growing client to play a vital role in shaping the evolutionary vision and strategy for their current backend infrastructure. We seek an individual with expertise in database design and optimization to champion performance, delivery, stability, and security of our platform. Your focus will be on driving continuous enhancements that impact the entire application lifecycle.

Our client's technical team is made up of hard-working engineers that share a common interest in building a beautiful consumer website by developing sophisticated algorithms and highly available systems to offer best in class services to our customers. You will help build the frontend and backend systems that deliver their services, scale those systems for growth, and continuously improve their engineering practice. Above all, your work will impact the way rewards points are maximized, and help people travel better!

What You'll Do

You’ll take the lead on directing and implementing solutions to significantly complex, unscoped problems

Collaborate with other engineers, product, and design to build high-quality, scalable solutions

Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation

Promote and coach on sound engineering practices, which drive technical excellence (examples not limited to: automated testing, code reviews, and wanting to ‘always leave the code better than you found it.’)

Facilitate design discussions with key stakeholders at various levels which empower engineers to focus on business goals

Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development

Your work will extend to many parts of a domain, and can influence the entire organization

Be a technical mentor and leader for other engineers and take steps to support the growth and continued success of your teammates

Partner closely with other engineering leaders to define a cohesive, end to end, executable plan

Requirements

Who You Are

An experienced software professional with 8+ years of hands on knowledge building and maintaining scalable, reliable backend services using object-oriented programming languages such as Java, Ruby, Scala, GoLang, Python

Possess exceptional coding skills in popular JS frameworks and libraries, including React, Next.js, Node.js, Formik, Material UI, Recoil, and Stripe

Experience architecting, implementing and operating large-scale, highly available applications in AWS cloud environments

Experience building production web applications ideally using Agile, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches such as TDD, continuous integration, pairing, and infrastructure automation

Someone who has demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions

A teammate who thrives in a collaborative environment and provides feedback consistently and well, with an open mind and willingness to continuously improve

Ability to internalize the best ideas from across the organization, and set a vision that others are excited to get behind

A degree in Computer Science or related, or equivalent industry experience

Experience working with travel booking systems, especially airlines is preferred, but not required

The Tech Stack

Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Node.js

JavaScript, Tailwind, React.js, Next.js, Recoil

Microservices, REST APIs

Docker, PostgreSQL, Cypress

AWS - ECS, Kubernetes, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM

Figma, Storybook, Shortcut, Slack, Google Workspace

Github, Github Actions, Gradle, IntelliJ IDEA, AWS CI/CD

Auth0, Stripe, Hubspot, Looker Studio

MacOS

Benefits

About Our Client

Our client is devoted to bringing simplicity and clarity to a system that is intentionally opaque. And unlike traditional travel agencies, or even online booking services like Orbitz, Kayak, & Google, they don’t take a fee or commission from the airlines when someone books a flight.

Instead, our client is on the side of our customers — they work directly for them! They’re an ally that uses their expertise and technology to ensure people travel better, and are never taken advantage of.

Our client’s proprietary algorithm crawls the many hidden corners of the Internet, including those hard-to-search airline award websites to discover the clearest path to maximizing the value of loyalty and credit card points.

Benefits & Perks

Join a growing team! Our client believes in taking care of our team, so that their team can take care of their customers. All employees are offered the following:

Competitive salaries and meaningful equity

Comprehensive health care coverage

A 100% distributed workforce, so you can contribute from wherever you prefer

A dynamic work environment that values and promotes a healthy work-life balance in a fast-paced startup setting

An open vacation policy, with a minimum of 15 days off each year

Team trips and outings

Given the nature of our business, we anticipate that all team members will be traveling from time to time, including company trips and off-sites, or meeting with strategic partners. As such, being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is a condition of employment. They’ll ask you to present a copy of your vaccination card in advance of your first day.

We respect the individual needs of employees and are an equal opportunity employer.

Sound like a good fit? Apply today!.

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