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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in software engineering with a focus on building and maintaining legacy systems, delivering high-revenue projects, and improving code maintainability and performance. Proficient in software architecture and capable of mentoring team members while effectively communicating with stakeholders.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Software Engineering ExperienceSoftware ArchitectureScala ProgrammingPython ProgrammingCloud Infrastructure (AWS/GCP)
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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringLegacy Codebase ImprovementAPI DevelopmentSystem DesignTechnical DocumentationCode ReviewTestingObservabilityProgramming FundamentalsService Ownership
Soft Skills
Strong Communication SkillsMentoring
Tools & Technologies
Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)Cloud Infrastructure (GCP)ContainersCI/CD Pipelines
Industry Keywords
High-Visibility ProjectsLegacy System ModernizationProduction Software
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonScala
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Design, build, and maintain internal tools and services, primarily within legacy systems
- Contribute to architectural decisions, including how to incrementally modernize and improve existing platforms
- Deliver on high-revenue projects where reliability, correctness, and performance are essential
- Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering and the business to understand needs and communicate progress
- Improve the maintainability, testing, and observability of existing codebases
- Write clear technical documentation and share knowledge with the team
- Participate in code reviews, mentor less-experienced engineers, and help raise the engineering bar
- Ship meaningful improvements to legacy platforms and take ownership of at least one service or component
Requirements
What you’ll need- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production software
- Experience with software architecture, including designing systems and making sound technical trade-offs
- Comfort working in and improving legacy codebases
- Strong programming fundamentals and the ability to learn new languages and tools quickly
- Experience with Scala and/or Python
- Experience building services or APIs used by other engineers or internal teams
- Strong communication skills and confidence working on high-visibility projects
- Experience leading or contributing to legacy system modernization or migration efforts (nice to have)
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), containers, and CI/CD pipelines (nice to have)
Benefits
Comp & perks- Unlimited PTO
- Medical benefit contributions in congruence with local laws and type of employment agreement
