• Design, build, and maintain backend services that power core products and platforms. • Develop event-driven systems using Go and Kafka. • Build scalable microservices in containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes. • Contribute to architecture decisions that improve performance, resiliency, and maintainability. • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and QA to deliver end-to-end solutions. • Own your code in production, monitor, debug, and continuously improve service performance and reliability. • Write automated tests and follow CI/CD best practices to ensure high-quality deployments. • Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing across teams. • Support on-call rotation alongside senior team members to help maintain production systems.

• The professional will be responsible for providing technical solutions for new features and offering necessary support for existing features. • We also expect this person to assist other team members with technical issues while ensuring the best solution for the business. • We place a strong emphasis on quality, which includes clean and readable code (clean code).

• Support teams of 2-6 developers/designers/ QA analysts of varying skill levels and experience, providing guidance and support to ensure delivery on project commitments to meet client expectations. • Work closely with the COO, Operations Manager, Project Managers, and team to communicate project progress, challenges, resourcing needs, and project needs. Staff Engineers co-lead delivery projects in partnership with the Project Manager to deliver projects on budget and on time. • Mentor team members on assigned projects to follow SmartLogic processes for product development, working with the Project Manager to plan our weekly goals for the team to keep projects on track. • Pre-Sales & Solution Architecture: Partner with sales and consulting leadership to support technical discovery, solution architecture, and rough-order-of-magnitude estimates that are timely and defensible. • AI-Assisted Development: Leverage modern AI tools to improve development speed, quality, and maintainability; help establish best practices for their use on project teams. • DevOps Leadership: Provide hands-on leadership for CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, environment configuration, and production operations. • Infrastructure & Cloud Architecture: Design, review, and support scalable, secure cloud and server architectures (primarily AWS and Azure). • Support and validate decision making on assigned projects in collaboration with the project team, and other Staff Engineers reporting to the Director of Engineering. • Serve as the technical expert on assigned projects; QA and review PRs for submitted code.

• Promote and contribute to technical and functional refinements; • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other team members; • Implement integration solutions using CI/CD and GitHub with a focus on continuous and secure delivery; • Design, develop and implement high-level integration system architectures; • Develop integration strategies aligned with the organization's business objectives; • Assess integration risks and develop mitigation strategies, ensuring the security, availability and reliability of integrated systems; • Document architectures, integration patterns, technical decisions and best-practice guides to support maintenance and a comprehensive understanding of integrated systems; • Design and structure code in an efficient and sustainable way, facilitating maintenance and future expansion; • Write unit and integration tests using tools appropriate to the adopted technology. Contribute to the team by ensuring adherence to development standards and best practices; • Foster a culture of business and technical monitoring; • Actively participate in code reviews and assist colleagues with difficult design decisions; • Investigate and resolve complex technical issues related to the development of AWS cloud solutions.