Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Merchant Data Platform EU)

What You'll Do

• You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
• You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.
• You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
• You will drive detailed project definition, design, cross-functional alignment, estimation, in addition to task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance.
• You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• You will contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities such as participation in the interview process.
• You will mentor engineers on the team to help improve their designs, code quality, and testing.
• You will own the availability, reliability, and performance of your team’s systems.
• On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement.

What We Look For

• You have 4+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities and experience mentoring junior engineers.
• You have experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale and are proficient in one of Python or Kotlin
• You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• You are expert at synthesizing complex business products, and technical requirements to consistently produce high quality system designs and software.
• You are comfortable navigating a large code base, debugging others' code, and providing feedback to other engineers through code reviews.
• You have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• You are proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.
• Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.