Sr. Platform Engineer

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! Calls will not be returned.

We welcome individual candidates and Corp-to-Corp (CTC) resume submissions.

6-month contract

Remote: Must live within 50 miles of Baltimore, MD, Wilmington, DE, Charlotte, NC, Dallas, TX, New York, NY, or Evansville, IN. Occasional travel to work out technical approach, dependencies, and delivery commitments.

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! Calls will not be returned.

We are seeking a Sr. Platform Engineer to help our direct client. This is a remote position. Must live within 50 miles of Baltimore, MD, Wilmington, DE, Charlotte, NC, Dallas, TX, New York, NY, or Evansville, IN. Occasional travel to work out technical approach, dependencies, and delivery commitments.

This individual will be:

• An expert in platform best practices, standards, guidelines, roadmaps.
• Able to provide leadership to development teams that are using any part of the platform.
• Able to communicate and collaborate with various stakeholders.
• Able to create reusable artifacts, standards, templates, guidelines, and patterns to be used by other team members.
• Able to create high-level technical architecture diagrams and lead vendor towards the appropriate implementation.
• This position involves progressively more experience and accountability for influencing important technical decisions and supporting their implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Lead development and maintenance of complex web-based applications and enterprise systems based on Typescript, Angular, NodeJS.
• Develop target state technology that modernizes core lending platform services leveraging GraphQL with Apollo Client, Server, and Router, BPMN using Camunda v8, and Event Driven Architecture using Kafka on AWS.
• Demonstrate courage be willing to take a position to advance design and implementation decisions. Capable of principled push back with both peers and superiors.
• Continuously enhance and optimize code quality, scalability, security, and performance.
• Create clean, maintainable, and well-documented code adhering to best practices and coding standards.
• Write automated tests and conduct thorough testing to deliver high-quality, shippable software every sprint.
• Collaborate with product owners, user experience designers, and other team members contributing to the product development process, actively participate in discussions and development ceremonies, propose technical solutions, and translate them into working software.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to deploy and maintain applications into the Production environment.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to continuously improve development processes and skills.
• Have a strong bias for action and learning by doing mindset.
• Thrive working in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements:

• 5 - 7 years of experience as a software engineer, with a strong foundation in software development practices and principles.
• Familiarity with AWS/cloud technologies and infrastructure.
• Strong expertise in people management and project management
• Excellent leadership skills, with a focus on servant leadership and the ability to inspire and motivate team.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong exposure to Graph QL experience/Apollo router integrations.
• Strong background in math, statistics, computer science, data science or related discipline
• Advanced knowledge in one of these languages: Snowflake, Java, Scala, Python, or C#
• Experience in Kubernetes, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS.
• Exposure to data pipelines, like DBT will be added advantage.
• Proficient with data mining/programming tools (e.g. SAS, SQL, R, Python)
• Database technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redshift, Snowflake. and Greenplum)
• Strong micro services experience
• Building in cloud.
• Comfortable learning about and deploying new technologies and tools.

We look forward to receiving your resume in PDF format!