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Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity Async

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about 5 hours ago
Remote, Canada +5 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$189k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Identify and solve inefficiencies in tooling, APIs, and feedback mechanisms for product engineers.
  • Design, pitch, plan, measure, and implement solutions iteratively using AI tools.
  • Collaborate closely with product engineering colleagues to anticipate and address changes.
  • Develop and maintain services, abstractions, and architecture for product engineering.
  • Advance the use of Kafka and Sidekiq for asynchronous processing and communication.
  • Harden the async infrastructure to be resilient under heavy loads.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software development experience.
  • Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Comfortable with architectural thinking and delivering solutions through code.
  • Deep experience with Ruby and Rails, especially in developer tooling.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues as both customers and partners.
  • Experience with asynchronous processing using Sidekiq and/or Kafka.
  • Proven track record of improving developer productivity through tooling and infrastructure enhancements.

Benefits

  • Competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs).
  • Flexible work arrangements with hybrid office expectations.
  • Commitment to diversity and inclusion in hiring practices.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaRubyRuby on Rails