Senior Software Engineer

Description:

Senior Software Engineer working with our Cloud Infrastructure team to develop and maintain distributed services for driving real-time simulation systems.

Objectives:

• Design, implement, and maintain distributed backend services optimized for low latency and high throughput.


• Ensure APIs and data pipelines meet simulation performance requirements.


• Lead technical design efforts to ensure scalability, reliability, and efficient use of infrastructure resources.


• Collaborate across teams in order to deliver robust, production-grade systems.


• Mentor engineers in system design, performance optimization, and modern cloud-native development.
  

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Develop and maintain software features


• Design architecture of software modules


• Break down whole projects into implementation plans for the team


• Actively mentor less experienced programmers


• Actively propose improvements, e.g. better solutions, tech debt removal, development processes, etc.


• Actively communicate with stakeholders


• Perform code reviews


• Participate in the engineering hiring process


• Participate in project/feature estimations

Skills:

• Strong Golang/C++ experience


• Strong experience with RESTful API design principles


• Experience with both private (on-prem) and public cloud


• Experience with Kubernetes


• Experience with realtime simulation or other performance-critical systems


• Excellent communication skills

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field


• 5+ years professional software development with Golang/C++ or other backend languages

Additional Attributes:

• Experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL database


• Experience with NATs or other asynchronous messaging frameworks


• Cloud Computing experience (On-Premises, AWS, Kubernetes, etc)


• Experience with GIS data processing or other mathematically intensive field


• Additional experiences with other programming and scripting languages


• Leadership experience

Travel:

• Infrequent travel may be required from time to time to support industry events and to support key customers.