Senior Software Developer, Clio

• Backend development experience
• MySql expertise
• Experience investigating and solving performance problems
• The ability to optimize query performance
• A portfolio of successful projects (as well as a collection of lessons learned from failed projects)
• You are equally energized by both your own technical work as well as contributing to the career growth of your team
• You have strong opinions that are weakly held, and foster that same attitude in others
• You challenge and enable your team to take initiative, explore, and implement new improvements while balancing that work against satisfying the requirements as defined by the business
• You believe in providing honest, actionable feedback to your team, and encourage your team to reciprocate
• You devise roadmaps to guide the future of our datastores infrastructure in terms of scale and data security

Desirable

• We’re looking for a Senior Software Developer, Databases to join our Systems Engineering, Production team
• This role is for someone with deep expertise in MySQL, passionate about building robust, scalable database systems, and eager to tackle innovative challenges
• As a key player, you’ll focus on optimizing, maintaining, and evolving our MySQL infrastructure to support high-performance, mission-critical applications
• This is a unique opportunity to be exposed to diverse technologies and make a measurable impact
• We build, secure, and maintain the infrastructure and critical services that power Clio’s core applications
• We help Clions make data-driven decisions by providing observability and transparency for all of our environments
• We collaborate with the Clio product development teams to build tools that improve workflows and remove manual labor or friction points
• You’ll be responsible for preparing Clio’s database infrastructure for the future in terms of scale and reliability
• You will collaboratively define the roadmap to support business goals, and satisfy application requirements
• You will investigate and solve performance problems with our MySQL databases and other data stores
• You will use your experience to guide development teams on how to improve and optimize their use of the databases
• You will scope, define, and collaborate with developers to implement automation and processes that power reliability of Clio’s datastores
• You will work with the SRE team and help develop their MySQL knowledge