Staff Software Engineer (React/Ruby)

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a

• Improving user experiences that software engineers and engineering teams depend on during their day-to-day workflow.
• Contributing to architecture discussions during feature development to ensure that projects are built in a sound, reliable, performant way.
• Optimizing the performance of components for both latency and throughput.
• Monitoring all of the above in a scalable way (We all do ops, so we depend on automation).
• Contributing to incident response and vulnerability remediation efforts.
• Contributing to and collaborating on open source software.

• You have 6+ years of software engineering experience and are comfortable writing code in Ruby as well as at least one statically-typed language like Java or Go.
• 2+ years of Ruby on Rails experience.
• 2+ years of ReactJS experience.
• Fluent with Docker.
• Fluent with Terraform.
• Experience with scaling an HA application.
• Experience with Kafka / Kinesis.
• You have experience with data pipelines, distributed systems, and/or large-scale data processing.
• You are comfortable leading architecture planning and discussing trade-offs between engineering and business goals.
• You care about building maintainable, efficient, clean code.
• You'll enjoy this role if you care about working in and fostering a positive and collaborative environment.
• You love helping other developers work more effectively and have Open Source contributions that show it.
• You are able to take responsibility for projects end-to-end from idea to completion. Other people at the companies you worked for wanted you on their projects.
• You want to have an impact on the software engineering community.
• You enjoy being with peers who strive for engineering excellence.
• You always want to learn more and constantly improve as an engineer.
• Fluent in UML.