Sr. Software Engineer II, Distributed Systems - Remote

Overview

Narvar is growing! We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to have a measurable impact on some of the world's largest brands and develop products that will touch millions of consumers. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a meaningful role in amplifying the value of our platform by assuring the seamless development and deployment of our products.

In Short

• Partner with product managers, designers, and customer success teams to inform our roadmap and synthesize and clarify requirements
• Translate requirements to work streams for your team and work with the team to design, estimate, develop, and productionize features
• Use agile and iterative development methodologies to ship code to production several times a week
• Provide production support for customer issues and proactively work to improve operational efficiency
• Constantly improve quality by adopting test-driven development approaches, writing unit and integration tests, and raising the bar on processes and methodologies that improve reliability and performance of software
• Invest in the growth of other team members
• Research and adopt new technologies and open source implementations where applicable and heavily inform the technical direction of the team
• Communicate proficiently and influence the team through well-written technical design documents, write-ups/thought documents, and well-synthesized feedback

Requirements

• You have 8+ years of experience building reliable, scalable, and high-quality systems
• You have experience leading teams, mentoring junior engineers, and informing the technical roadmap
• You have a BS/MS in computer science, information systems, or equivalent
• You have experience building well-designed software with Java (or C#) and frameworks like Spring
• You have experience implementing microservice architecture patterns, sidecar, API Gateways, and distributed tracing
• You have experience with relational databases like Postgres or MySQL and NoSQL databases like Cassandra/YugaByte, DynamoDB, Redis - schema design, optimization, query analysis, sharding, and handling very large datasets
• Knowledge of performance tuning, optimization, and garbage collection
• You have exposure to queueing, distributed streaming (e.g. Kafka, Pulsar) and/or serverless frameworks
• Experience with a scripting language to get basic tasks done – Python, Shell scripts
• You understand cloud native principles and software development using the services available on AWS and GCP
• You have experience handling scale and building medium to large scale enterprise business applications
• You have experience writing tests, using CI/CD pipelines, and Docker containers

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with some of the world's largest brands
• Engaging work environment focused on innovation
• Support for professional growth and development
• Inclusive and diverse workplace culture
• Celebration of team and individual achievements