Staff Product Software Engineer

The Software Engineer is responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of software components, systems, and features.

Responsibilities:

• Communication with non-technologists or product teams is clear when discussing technical issues.
• Motivates multiple teams to achieve domain and epic goals through constant improvement.
• Drive for continuous improvement across architecture, engineering, and quality.
• Mastery of estimation, engaging with business stakeholders to prioritize timely delivery of epics and initiatives.
• Perform code reviews for the entire team; ensure the team's code for each sprint is well organized and readable.
• Partner with Production Engineering and Operations to ensure platform availability and performance, as related to the application architecture.
• Create and execute, in partnership with Architecture and Product Management, the Application Architecture Strategy and Roadmap for their responsible area.
• Partner with architecture to drive a platform transformation strategy, including refactoring the platforms and moving towards MSA and EDA.
• Participate in all aspects of engineering, including but not limited to product requirements, solution architecture, shipping quality code, etc.
• Work with the peer group to establish the relevant standards for solution design, code, quality, and dev tools.
• Collaborate with teams to support in-flight strategies and other roadmaps as required, such as Security, Cloud, Data, etc.
• Partner within the team to drive higher engineering maturity with delivery and quality.
• Ensure key metrics are met that highlight architecture progression and quality of shipped products.
• Partner with DevOps to articulate CI/CD requirements and own the team deployment process.
• Drive increased velocity of quality feature delivery through simplification and automation.
• Assist with transition to the new cloud environment via necessary architecture and platform changes.
• Significantly improve stability by showing year-over-year reduction in P1/P2 incidents in Edgenuity's platform environment.

Requirements:

• 5 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree.

Technical Skills:

• Expert with cloud infrastructure, deployment tools, and operations.
• Competent with all engineering tools to resolve complicated software defects.
• Proficient in data management and different database technologies, including SQL, NoSQL, GraphDB, etc.
• Mastery of estimation, engaging with business stakeholders to prioritize timely delivery of epics and initiatives.
• Mastery of a core language and framework and experience in another.
• Motivates multiple teams to achieve domain and epic goals through constant improvement.
• Drive for continuous improvement across architecture, engineering, and quality.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Competencies:

• Takes proactive initiative on all projects with a strong sense of ownership; emulates curiosity and innovation, and instills trust in others.
• Recognized leader within one or more domains; working knowledge of all enterprise domains.
• Proactivity. Taking initiative on all projects is a clear bias-for-action.
• Ownership. Welcomes responsibility/accountability in all areas.
• Defining work. Takes objectives, clears ambiguity, and defines the path to delivery.
• Defining process. Looks for improvement and challenges the status quo.