Staff Software Engineer (USA) - Remote

Overview

Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fuelling ours.

In Short

• End-to-End Development: Own the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of features and services from concept to delivery.
• Quality Ownership: Ensure high code quality, performance, and maintainability by following best practices and conducting thorough code reviews, automated testing, and performance monitoring.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and fellow engineers, to define and deliver features that meet both business and technical objectives.
• Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify areas for improvement within the codebase, infrastructure, and development process. Drive solutions that increase team efficiency and code quality.
• System Reliability: Monitor the health and performance of services and ensure timely resolution of issues and bugs.
• Technical Innovation: Stay current with new technologies and trends to ensure the systems you build are modern, scalable, and aligned with industry best practices.
• Thought Leader and Influencer: Drives decisions on difficult challenges with innovative ideas. Leads and influences entire teams with coaching and guidance.

Requirements

• TypeScript & Node.js Expertise: Experience with TypeScript, including advanced types and type-checking techniques and strong understanding of Node.js runtime and ecosystem.
• Frontend Experience: Strong experience in building, designing, and front-end applications using JavaScript client side frameworks (Angular, Vue, React).
• API Development: Skilled in designing and building RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.
• Database Management: Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
• Asynchronous Programming: Familiarity with promises, async/await, and event-driven architecture.
• Testing and Debugging: Knowledge of testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Mocha) and debugging tools.
• Code Quality and Standards: Understanding of code linting, formatting, and adherence to best practices (e.g., ESLint, Prettier).
• Version Control: Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows (e.g., GitHub, GitLab).
• Cloud Services and Deployment: Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Microservices Architecture: Understanding of microservices design principles and implementation.
• Security Best Practices: Awareness of security standards, such as OAuth, JWT, and data encryption.
• Performance Optimization: Experience in optimizing code for performance, scalability, and efficiency.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Knowledge of continuous integration and deployment tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI).
• Agile Methodologies: Familiarity with Agile development practices, including Scrum and Kanban.
• Strong Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to troubleshoot issues and optimize backend performance.
• Effective Communication: Capable of clearly communicating technical concepts to team members and stakeholders.
• Code Quality: Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code, following best practices such as TDD, unit testing, and code reviews.
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex problems and design solutions that are scalable and maintainable.

Benefits

• Three week's paid time off on top of 13 paid holidays, floating holidays, and holiday allowance increase based on tenure.
• Gym membership subsidy.
• Medical and dental insurance.
• Pet insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• College Savings Plan.
• Travel assistance.
• 401(k) with up to 4% employer match.