Full-Time Staff Software Engineer - Emerging Tech
A Place For Mom is hiring a remote Full-Time Staff Software Engineer - Emerging Tech. The career level for this job opening is Expert and is accepting New York, NY based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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ResponsibilitiesWe are seeking a talented Staff Software Engineer to update and maintain core internal services using a modern tech stack. This role involves developing and leading a team of full-stack developers and QA engineers.
Reports to the Director of Engineering - Emerging Technologies.
Leverage expertise to select cutting-edge technologies, frameworks, and design patterns for implementation.
Provide visionary leadership and architectural direction to a team developing core services technologies that support business needs.
Take part in platform development.
Who you are:
- A hands-on, outcome-oriented, technology-focused engineer with extensive experience as a team lead.
- Strong partnership with product teams, ensuring alignment between technological innovation and product development goals.
What you will do:
- Lead mission-critical projects and deliver platform capabilities end-to-end, with high quality.
- Own one or more products or platform spaces.
- Collaborate with partners and customers to receive feedback for your product space.
- Build and grow engineering skills in challenging areas, solving complex problems.
- Influence architecture, technology selections, and trends company-wide.
- Collaborate with peers to design complex applications, review code, and suggest optimizations.
- Enable continuous deployment by championing quality engineering practices (linting, unit testing, e2e testing, pipeline automation).
- Collaborate with product teams to build and maintain design system standards, processes, and adoption.
- Create reference implementations for mentoring junior staff (when required).
- Help define engineering best practices and provide technical mentorship.
- Investigate and resolve production issues (from UI to service layer) and prevent future occurrences.
- Work with project managers to ensure timely and high-quality project deliverables.
Required Skills and Competencies:
- 10+ years of engineering experience.
- Strong communication and "storytelling" skills.
- Role model and champion modern ways of working (Agile, DevOps).
- Thrive in fast-paced environments.
- Expert with .NET, from legacy Framework to .NET Core.
- Strong passion for new technologies and innovation.
- Prioritize high-quality, production-ready code.
- Commitment to continuous learning and skill expansion.
- Demonstrate competent problem-solving skills (debugging, analysis, instrumentation).
- Take ownership of large initiatives.
- Able to step back and reassess task size/complexity.