Staff Engineer (Technical Lead)

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As a Staff Engineer within the Horizon squad, your influence extends across the team, playing a pivotal role in defining the technical direction of our platform UI framework. You remain actively engaged in hands-on full stack engineering responsibilities within your squad, consistently contributing to the successful delivery of features from your product roadmap. In this capacity, you provide valuable guidance, direction, and assistance to team members within your team.

In this role you are accountable for Technical Leadership and delivery with your own team and your guidance and expertise are sought by and extends across the broader engineering organization. You can successfully anticipate and plan for technical problems. You are highly knowledgeable in major parts of your team’s technology stack and are the technical owner of significant components of our code base. You have a sustained track record of creating meaningful improvements in our applications around stability, performance, and scalability.

As a Staff Engineer, you have a strong ability to influence without requiring reporting authority. You facilitate cross-squad work when required and are influential beyond your functional area. You are capable of driving groups of disparate interests to decisions, and clearly communicating and seeing those decisions through to impact. 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

Squad (Daily Ongoing Duties) 

·       Writing and reviewing code from the sprint backlog inline with team best practices

·       Assisting in driving squad sprint execution to ensure timelines are met without compromising on quality.

·       Coaching and mentoring other engineers in engineering best practices

·       You may be required to participate in your squad's on-call rotation as part of supporting the services your squad owns.

Technical Duties

·       Accountable for Technical Leadership and delivery within your own team

·       Provide effective input to technical discussions/decisions that impact the company’s ability to deliver quality engineering solutions.

·       Drive observability to work across your team based on the PD's observability approach.

·       Lead incident response, recovery, review, and remediation for your team

Communication Duties

·       Communicate within your squad in an effective, clear, concise manner in both written and verbal form on technical and nontechnical subjects.

·       Consistently work across your team to help resolve blockers, and complete work tasks.

  Leadership Duties 

·       Set short to medium-term strategic technical direction for your area of remit, able to look ahead 6-12 months and identify the areas of greatest need and create plans to improve them. 

·       Lead your team in strategic efforts, influencing decisions to achieve alignment on major goals.

·       Train, coach and mentor other PD engineers

·       Model Skedulo and PD values

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

·       Must have at least 8+ years of commercial experience as a Full Stack developer, with solid hands-on experience in at least some areas of our technology stack (and an appetite to learn):

·       Kotlin / Typescript / React / Node / GRPC

·       Must have at least 5+ years working with unit and integration testing patterns 

·       Must have at least 3+ years of experience in software design and architecture

·       Must have experience working with agile development methodologies 

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS

·       Preferred candidates will have experience in designing and building distributed architectures that support modern web applications.

·       Preferred candidates will have experience with cloud hosting (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).

·       Preferred candidates will have prior experience working with GraphQL.

·       Preferred candidates will have a team player mentality, will be quick on their feet, agile, and aren't afraid to speak up and voice their opinion. 

BENEFITS

·       Fun, creative, and fast-paced working environment

·       Competitive salary

·       Flextime - 3 days in the office & 2 days working from home

·       Mental Health Support/Resources through Modern Health

·       3 Paid Volunteer Days per year 

·       10 paid sick days per year

·       4 weeks paid leave per year

·       8 Days of public holidays per year

·       Stock Options/ Equity 

·       Kitchen stocked with snacks & drinks

·       Paid Parental Leave for both carers 

·       Learning & Development Stipend

·       Employee Referral Bonus

·       Our offices have creative, open workspaces with room to play, reflect, and relax 

·       Our team is extremely competitive, and we will challenge your best table tennis skills

Skedulo is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that the diverse makeup of our workforce is a reflection of the communities we care about and serve. We are committed to creating a diverse workplace and inclusive culture. All qualified candidates are considered for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, age, religion, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran status, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.