Job Title: Staff Engineer - (GO, Python, FullStack/React)
Duration: 3-month contract/ Right to hire
Pay range $80 - 90/hr
Work Type: Remote
Because this position has the option to go from contract to full-time, we can only accept candidates with the work authorization of a US Citizen or Green Card.

Job Description:

Are you a passionate and experienced Staff Engineer looking for a challenging and rewarding role? We're seeking a talented Staff Engineer to join our team and help drive our insurance business transformation. As a Staff Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in building and maintaining high-performance, low-maintenance, and zero-downtime platforms and applications.

Responsibilities:

• Innovate and build new systems, improve existing systems, and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems.
• Lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap to increase development velocity and unlock new engineering capabilities.
• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems.
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Platform Engineering domain.
• Ensure the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions.
• Mentor and coach other engineers to strengthen their technical expertise.
• Share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.
• Analyze costs and forecasts, incorporating them into business plans.
• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, and measure outcomes to ensure desired results.
• Demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning.
• Be willing to take on-call and operation support.

Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Go programming language with advanced knowledge of at least one other OOP language (e.g., Python, Java, C#, etc.)
• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design, data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, and tuning, with good knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
• Advanced knowledge of web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Good knowledge of one or more of the following languages: VB, PHP, Perl, Ruby, SQL, etc.
• Understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., and familiarity with No-SQL databases like MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.
• Experience in architecting, designing, building automation, workflows, custom objects/apps, declarative functionality, triggers, and migration tools in the BMC Helix platform and transitioning such platforms to Open Source
• Experience building and configuring flows and process builders
• Strong understanding of web service integration (REST/SOAP) and enterprise middleware integration tiers
• Ability to articulate channel dataflow and process flow, including email, messaging, chat, mobile Push, and SDKs
• Excellent communication skills and ability to lead projects and interact with clients and sponsors regularly
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
• Experience with Windows Server Administration and Windows Event Log
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
• Willingness to work on both fast development and operation environments
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation, and related tools, operations, and real-time communication)
• Knowledge of big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kappa) and K8 cluster
• Experience with open-source tools like GIT, Jenkins, and CircleCI, and knowledge of Terraform/Ansible
• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation, and related tools, operations, and real-time communication)
• Knowledge of client and AI technologies
• Knowledge of open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus
• 6+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, administration, governance, infrastructure management, installation, and maintenance of hardware, software, and network systems
• 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid data center
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Keywords: staff engineer, software development, platform architecture, cloud computing, AWS, GCP, Azure, open-source, data pipeline, automation, DevOps, technical leadership, engineering excellence, insurance industry, technology transformation

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