Staff Engineer

We're hiring a Staff Engineer! 

About the opportunity

The Staff Engineer position represents a distinguished level of expertise and responsibility within Plexus. As a senior engineering team member, you play a crucial role in driving technical excellence and shaping architectural decisions. The Staff Engineer guides fellow engineers, but you will also contribute to the overall engineering strategy and long-term technical vision.

 What you will accomplish

• Technical Leadership: Mentor and guide senior and junior engineers, offering insights on best practices and code reviews and aiming to elevate the engineering capabilities of teams.
• Architectural Design: Collaborate with Architects to understand designs and technical requirements. You actively participate in architectural discussions, proposing and evaluating solutions that align with business goals, scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Strategic Vision: Contribute to developing technical strategies and roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business objectives and cutting-edge technologies. You assess the feasibility and impact of adopting new tools, frameworks, or processes while considering long-term implications, which are also within their purview.
• Standardization and Best Practices: Analyze new and existing codebases and initiatives, leveraging your expertise to create technical documentation for standardization, references, and reporting purposes.
• Continuous Improvement: Tackle complex technical challenges, often involving system-wide optimizations, performance enhancements, or scalability improvements.
• Collaboration and Communication: collaborate with cross-functional teams to address and resolve technical issues as they arise.
• System Support:
  • Configure, customize and integrate software or hardware components.
  • Conduct system testing and troubleshooting to ensure proper functionality.
  • Provide technical support, maintenance, and upgrades for deployed solutions.

Achievements and Proficiencies

• Educational Credentials: You have a Bachelor’s degree in computer science and Computer Information Systems or equivalent experience.
• Proven Experience: You have Seven years of experience in software engineering and(or) enterprise web development.
• Technical Proficiency:
  • You implemented and understood the operational aspects of a specific solution, ensuring its successful deployment, functionality, and ongoing support.
  • Knowledge of twelve-factor application development.
  • You have a strong command of programming languages, frameworks, and design patterns.
• Preferred Technical knowledge:
• • Experience with Agile.
  • Knowledge of APIs, publish/subscriber patterns, and implementations based on NodeJS, NextJS, React, NestJS, JavaScript, Spring Boot, Java, Kotlin, MuleSoft, Kafka, AWS Cloud Platform, CI/CD pipelines, and many other supporting technologies.
• Systems Architecture: You have demonstrated an understanding of Service Oriented Architecture and Microservices.
• Problem Solving Skills: You Solved complex technical problems with innovative solutions.
• Forward Thinking: Anticipated obstacles and communicated effectively to execute the plan.
• Project Management: Provided solutions and worked cross-functionally, facilitating the successful completion of projects.
• Strategic Partnership and Relationship Building: Proven ability to build strong relationships and influence others to develop relationships that reflect continuous positive experiences.

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