Senior Software Engineer, Jellyvision

• We're looking for Senior Software Engineers with 7+ years of relevant experience, strong architecture design chops, and solid software engineering fundamentals
• Proficient in Ruby/Rails and Python
• Understanding of relational databases
• Experience building RESTful APIs and interacting with third-party APIs
• Experience writing comprehensive unit, integration, and functional tests
• Deep understanding of version control tools (we use git and Gitlab)
• Familiarity with container orchestration; ie. Docker
• Familiarity with CI/CD and pipelines
• Experience in AWS or other cloud environments
• Experience working with highly available and scalable backend applications
• Experience working as part of an agile product engineering delivery team
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and present complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Core competencies:
• Manages Ambiguity
• Optimizes Work Processes
• Collaborates
• Communicates Effectively
• Drives Results
• Ensures Accountability
• Manages Complexity

Desirable

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership for a backend team that primarily supports and builds out APIs used by Jellyvision’s core products
• You’ll spend your days writing well-designed, reliable, and maintainable code. You’ll also keep things running by solving problems and making sure they stay solved by writing tests
• Ensure the team maintains Jellyvision's values, standards, and best practices
• Foster an inclusive team environment
• Write high-quality, maintainable, reliable, secure, and performant code
• Adhere to Agile methodologies and focus on rapid delivery, CI/CD, and test automation
• Manage code repositories and codebase health
• Write unit, integration, and browser tests
• Lead the design and implementation of complex software systems or applications
• Mentor junior developers, conduct code reviews, and provide technical guidance to ensure code quality and best practices
• Architect scalable and maintainable solutions that meet performance and security requirements
• Investigate and resolve technical issues, bugs, and performance bottlenecks
• Proactively identifies areas in the team's code where technical debt may slow the team and understand the cost/benefit of addressing it
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and trends in software development
• We’ll measure success by ticket throughput, impact on team metrics, and quality of deliverables
• Collaborate with Product Managers and other stakeholders to define high level system requirements
• Coach and mentor less experienced team members
• Give and receive constructive code review feedback
• Collaborate with Jellyvision's non-tech teams (ex. designers, writers, producers)
• We’ll measure success through performance reviews and assessing feedback from peers and stakeholders