Staff Software Engineer – Full Stack

This Staff Software Engineer position is a critical technology and leadership role, responsible for planning, designing, and developing software in the Workforce Technology space.

Specifically, this role will be a technology leader responsible for projects in the Automations and Custom solutions space.

Architecture and Solution Design

• Own and lead the design and development of technical specifications, software fixes, enhancements, components, and/or new software systems, integrations, automations and applications.

• Translate complex functional, technical, and business requirements into architectural designs, participates in setting the architectural direction for software development of HR Technology systems.

Develop highly scalable software systems and technical solutions that satisfy functional and non-functional requirements and are well-documented, easy to maintain, and highly adaptable to meet changing business and technical needs using key technologies including Java/and or Python, Cloud Solutions, Relational and NoSQL databases, Datawarehouses, messaging, orchestrating, data engineering, automation and AI/ML technologies.

Explain difficult concepts and negotiate with stakeholders to adopt different viewpoints.

Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for software solutions, including technical specifications, process design documents, user guides, and training materials

Technology Leadership

• Perform code and design reviews of peers, writes automated test cases, owns and lead end-to-end troubleshooting, review, root-cause analysis and issue resolution.

• Active self-starter, recommend improvements to processes, technologies, and coding practices that improve the team's effectiveness. Closely collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business analysts, product owners, solution architects, subject matter experts, and IT teams

• Act as an escalation point for complex technical issues and provide strategic solutions.

• Guide and mentor other team members by providing oversight and direction.

Collaboration

• Work effectively with Product Owners, dependent technical teams and leaders to exchange feedback and input to drive team progress. 

Compliance

• Ensure that solutions adhere to industry best practices and compliance standards, including data security and privacy regulations, architecture and standards

Required

• 7+ years of software development experience including design, architecture and development experience in a highly scalable, high-volume software components, and/or client-facing web applications

• 4 years leading software engineering teams and projects

• Advanced experience in one or more general purposed language preferably Java and/or Python

• Advanced experience in Cloud infrastructure, Json Messaging, Automation (using UiPath) and Integrations

• Advanced experience designing and implementing solutions using AWS services, with an understanding of at least some core services: IAM, S3, Kinesis Data Stream, Kinesis Firehose, Lambda, DynamoDB, DMS, Kafka. (similar toolset in other cloud providers are.)

• Advanced experience in DevOps practices, e.g.,: CI/CD, docker, testing, and automation

• Advanced experience with infrastructure-as-code, e.g.: Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, etc.

• Advanced experience with MicroServices, Restful API’s, Cloud computing

• Understanding of trade-offs between different data storage systems and architectures (data warehouses, SQL vs NoSQL, partitioning, etc.)

• Experience engaging in technology platforms, supporting complex business engagements and engineering collaborations

• Deep understanding of design patterns and modern, highly scalable application development

• Deep knowledge and experience of managing, orchestrating, and monitoring distributed production systems

• Demonstrated experience with designing and building resilient, complex software solutions

• Demonstrated experience in translating experience components to front-end requirements and collaborate with front-end engineers

• Advanced understanding of AI/ML including Generative AI

• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

• Ability to create and maintain documentation, procedures, and working instructions for the operations team

• Ability to lead improvement of software development processes, protocols and procedures

• Ability to lead programming, testing and debugging of major projects

• Ability to conceive and set the direction for major development projects

• Ability to lead projects and oversee teams

• Ability to work independently, with guidance needed in only the most complex situations

• Ability to use sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgement and identify innovative solutions

• Ability to train, mentor, and review the work of less experienced members of the team 

Desired Skills:

• Deep expertise in Front-end technologies like React and/or Angular

• Deep expertise in integration Automation and AI solutions

• Deep expertise in LLMs implementations including RAG based approaches and Agentic AI

• Deep expertise in a Data Engineering concepts including Data Lakehouse and/or Data Warehousing

Education:

• BS Computer Science, information systems or related technology field or equivalent work experience

Preferred Education:

MS Computer Science or related technology field

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The hiring range for this position in California is $152,200 - $ 204,100 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.