Principal Software Engineer - Web

Loading... 2Bridge has been retained on the search for a Principal Software Engineer - Web to join our eCommerce client. Come join a growing, unicorn startup based in Detroit helping to set the technical direction and strategy and leading the design, architecture, and development of their next-gen platforms in Javascript, Node, React, etc. Our client offers a comprehensive package including base, bonus, equity and full benefits. Come join an exceptional team building an amazing product. Responsibilities:

• Coach and mentor software engineers in techniques, processes, and new technologies; enable teams to succeed.
• Build world-class applications using a variety of tools including React, GraphQL (Apollo), AWS, and more.
• Refactor existing infrastructure to take the web experience to the next level.
• Contribute to overall system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance of web applications.
• Support the build and deployment pipeline and when necessary, diagnose and solve production support issues.
• Identify, scope, and architect solutions for new features while applying sound technical judgment that considers technology alternatives, impact on affected / adjacent systems and tradeoffs.
• Work with Product, Design, and QA to deliver world-class digital experiences.
• Stay ahead of new technologies with an eye to evaluating and potentially incorporating them into the architecture.
• Work to improve the cloud infrastructure that powers high-performance, consumer-scale website(s).
• Lead initiatives, technical design, and delivery of features across multiple systems to improve user experiences.
• Recommend changes to processes and tools based on industry standards, patterns, and practices.
• Work with other teams and platforms (iOS, Android, backend engineering) to build out scalable systems to support the infrastructure.
• Diagnose/fix highly complex technical issues independently.
• Identify and communicate cross-team dependencies.
• Communicate individual and project-level development statuses, issues, risks, and concerns to technical leadership and management; research / advise technical leadership in vendor negotiations.
• Create documentation and training related to technology stacks and standards.
  
  

Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer engineering, Computer Science or Similar.
• Comprehensive knowledge of CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
• 8 years as a software engineer building highly available web-scale B2C systems in React, Node, JavaScript, GraphQL, Webpack, etc.
• Deeply knowledgeable of systems architecture and technologies, including Amazon Web Services and Docker.
• Masterful building large, high-traffic websites at scale.
• Deep understanding of SEO within web applications.
• You are passionate about mentorship,
• Experience with tools such as Git, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• Very comfortable with Agile development methodologies