About the role
Responsibilities:
- Act as a mentor to R& D technical leaders.
- Apply broad expertise and knowledge in highly specialized fields or several related disciplines.
- Lead and contribute to the development of company objectives and principles to achieve goals in creative and effective ways.
- Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility.
Requirements:
- You're a highly advanced software developer who makes important product decisions regarding direction and scope.
- You make strategic decisions about which team members should work on which areas of a project, and provide technical and professional leadership for the developers.
- You identify and collaborate with multiple teams or organizations, and have a deep understanding of software systems that span multiple teams. In addition, you are comfortable presenting to the executive team.
- Significant experience working on backend systems.
- Excited about working in the big data space.
- Relevant experience developing software in either Python, Go, or other similar languages.
- Comprehensive experience in software development of event-driven services and web APIs.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services or other cloud platforms, preferably with distributed object storage and parallel computing (S3 Lambda, DynamoDB).
- Ability to work cohesively within a team and habitually spread knowledge in various forms (verbally, documentation).
- Ability, comfort, and interest in picking up new technologies and frameworks that you may not be familiar with.
- Understanding of Kubernetes.