Staff Engineer

Job Description

Position Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Staff Engineer to join our dynamic MarTech team. In this leadership role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and scaling our core marketing technology platform. You will leverage your deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices architecture to build robust and efficient solutions. You will also provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering team members, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software. This role requires a strong technical foundation, proven leadership capabilities, and a passion for building innovative MarTech solutions.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership:

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of developers. Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements.
• Provide technical estimations and determine end to end project timelines.
• Possess strong architecture and system design skills with and experience of architecting and delivering distributed, cloud-based microservices, event-driven architectures and RESTful API's.
• Develop and maintain scalable applications using Java with Spring Boot. Conduct code reviews, identify areas for improvement, and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
• Manage and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Bamboo and Bitbucket.
• Implement and oversee code quality analysis using SonarQube.
• Conduct comprehensive testing, including TDD approaches for unit and functional testing.
• Utilize Google Cloud services (e.g., Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL) and transactional databases effectively.
• Monitor application performance using tools like Grafana and Newrelic.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues swiftly and effectively.
• Proactively evaluate and adopt new technologies and tools to improve the system's performance, reliability and scalability.
• Guide software engineers, quickly troubleshoot issues, and determine root causes in a 24/7 on-call environment.
• Experience managing, deploying and maintaining enterprise large scale solutions and driving operational excellence.

Vision and Strategy:

• Define the strategic vision for your team, partnering effectively with customers and stakeholders.
• Establish a roadmap and successfully deliver software that executes that vision.
• Build and articulate a clear vision for the platform's future, aligning with business goals.
• Collaborate with leadership to track and report on key performance indicators on a bi-weekly basis (KPIs).
• Facilitate Root Cause Analysis (RCAs) and Correction of Errors (COEs), applying learnings to enhance system architecture and design.

Management:

• Independently manage a team of software engineers. Assess engineering performance and manage high and low performers. You take effective decisions addressing employee concerns. Hire, develop and promote engineers on your team.
• Lead effective development processes and consistently deliver software with minimal defects and disruption.
• Productively identify risks and bring them to the attention of your manager, customers and stakeholders with plans for mitigation before they become roadblocks.
• Write effective narratives design documents and other strategic documentation
• Define matrix to measure team development progress, customer experience, and operational excellence metrics.
• Your team has customer engagement mechanisms that adhere to SLA as an effectively managed software operation.
• Ensure quality of software architecture and improve operational performance metrics for your team.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in Engineering Management.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in Java development, Postgres, CloudSQL or equivalent DB technologies with substantial experience in leading engineering projects.
• Excellent communication, presentation and networking skills to partner with cross functional partners.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment with competing priorities.
• Possess a solid understanding of design approaches and latest industry technologies. Must be able to display this during the interview process.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive experience working with Martech technologies

PAY/BENEFITS INFORMATION:

• Actual starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to relevant experience and location.
• Subject to eligibility requirements, associates may receive health care benefits (including medical, vision, and dental); wellness benefits; 401(k) retirement benefits; life and disability insurance; employee stock purchase program; paid time off; paid sick leave; and parental leave and benefits.
• Paid Time Off, paid sick leave, and holiday pay vary by job level and type, job location, employment classification (part-time or full-time / exempt or non-exempt), and years of service. For additional information, please click HERE.
• AEO may also provide discretionary bonuses and other incentives at its discretion.