Job Description

Responsibilities and Duties

· Design and deliver high quality features and enhancements.

· Own the end-to-end delivery of large features within your team that could span 3+ months.

· Create technical design specifications in collaboration with other members of the engineering team.

· Provide estimates and actively participate in the sprint planning process.

· Produce highly secure solutions.

· Tune the performance of our distributed system to ensure they operate within our SLAs.

· Peer review other engineers’ code.

· Mentor other engineers to create good technical solutions to problems and ship code quickly to our customers.

Qualifications and Skills

· Experience with cloud computing and container-based distributed systems (Docker).

· Experience working with relational databases (preferably MySQL) and high proficiency with SQL.

· Understanding of higher-level RDBMS concepts (locking and transaction model, isolation levels, deadlocks, etc.).

· Significant experience with at least one dynamically typed, object-oriented programming. language (preference for Python).

· Great understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture.

· Hands-on experience in using message brokers such as RabbitMQ.

· Deep understanding of restful API development.

· Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced customer centric environment.

· 5+ years of experience in software development.

· Excellent communication and organization skills.

· Proven experience using code repositories such as GitHub.

· Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.

· Familiar with *nix like environments.

· Build and integration experience with Payroll Providers and Time & Attendance platforms is highly desirable.