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Job Description
Position Overview:
Viral Nation is looking for a highly-skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer, API to join our dynamic organization. This role will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our engineering processes. As a senior member of the tech org, this role will collaborate within a cross-functional team, but also with technical and non-technical teams across the business, providing technical leadership, backend architectural guidance, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, secure, and scalable APIs.
- Lead the technical design and implementation of complex features and modules, ensuring adherence to architectural principles and coding standards defined by the architecture committee.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine and break down requirements into user stories and tasks in the squad backlog.
- Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and mentor junior engineers to foster a culture of continuous improvement and excellence.
- Troubleshoot and debug issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement effective solutions to ensure the stability and performance of APIs.
- Implement and advocate for performance optimization techniques to meet platform NFRs such as availability, reliability, scalability and stability.
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies and trends, and evaluate their potential use in our products and platform.
- Collaborate with the SRE team to optimize deployment processes, monitor application performance, and ensure reliability and scalability.
- Work closely with the engineering team to refactor and optimize existing codebase for long-term sustainability.
- Actively participate in Scrum rituals, such as sprint planning, estimation, daily syncs, and retrospectives, to drive project delivery and maintain transparency.
Qualifications and Skills:
- A minimum of 5+ years of experience in API development with a strong focus on architecture and design.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Able to demonstrate a high-level of expertise in backend technologies such as Node.js, Python (Django) or similar.
- In-depth knowledge of database systems (both SQL and NoSQL), data model design and data access patterns.
- Considerable expertise in web application architecture and design patterns, and performance optimization techniques.
- Strong background in microservices architecture and API design.
- Proven track record of identifying security best practices for RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
- Superior expertise in testing tools and frameworks.
- Deep understanding of CI/CD tools and processes, including containerization.
- Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.
- Clear and concise cross-functional communication and collaboration skills.
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, OR relevant experience.