Senior Staff Software Engineer - Remote

Company Description

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We help to redefine lending practices, uncover and prevent fraud, simplify healthcare, create digital marketing solutions, and gain deeper insights into the automotive market, all using our unique combination of data, analytics and software. We also assist millions of people to realise their financial goals and help them to save time and money.

We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agrifinance, insurance, and many more industry segments.

We invest in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data and to innovate. A FTSE 100 Index company listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN), we have a team of 23,300 people across 32 countries. Our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Learn more at experianplc.com.

Job Description

We are looking for an accomplished and motivated Senior Staff Engineer to join our team. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will own the technical design for projects of large complexity and must understand and articulate the tradeoffs in creating good software. You consistently write high-quality code with an awareness of industry best practices and trends. You must have demonstrated experience building complex systems, debugging them effectively, and maintaining project plans, documentation, and backlogs. You must work well with a team and understand that ownership extends into operational production support of your code.

If you are a passionate Senior Staff Engineer with a proven track record of technical leadership, problem-solving, and a commitment to high-quality software development, we invite you to apply and be a key contributor to our innovative and collaborative team.

This is a remote position, and you will report to the Sr. Director of Engineering.

You'll have opportunity to:

• Set short to medium-term (3-6 months) strategic technical direction in partnership with Product, determine technical requirements for new applications, services, and integrations, and draft a plan to incrementally deliver.
• You will work closely with customers and partners to understand their use-cases, anticipate their needs, and unblock integrations.
• Participate in an agile development cycle, write documentation, perform code reviews, mentor others, and be part of the production on-call rotation.
• Design and implement scalable, resilient services with observability metrics for production performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Participate in team ownership and accountability for the support of production cloud services and contribute to streamlining incident handling processes.
• Work with a team of engineers who love learning, experimenting, and pushing the limits.
• Participate in building an outstanding company culture that focuses on the human engine inside NeuroID and enables you to do the best work of your career.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in developing cloud based applications in Python, Java, and Javascript or similar languages
• Strong knowledge of the AWS platform
• Experience in designing and developing AWS Lambda functions.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and JSON or similar.
• Experience automating software deployments to AWS and comfortable defining infrastructure as code.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito.
• Familiarity with the following or similar tools and methodologies: Github, Github Actions, Terraform Cloud, Datadog, Jira, and Agile methodologies.
• Strong debugging experience.
• Experience communicating updates and resolutions to customers and other partners.
• BONUS: First-hand experience writing mobile applications for Android & iOS and the React Native framework.

Functional Expertise:

• You can develop software in Java, JavaScript, and Python and understand the theoretical concepts of the language and how to write well-documented, well-tested code.
• You have significant experience with AWS and their breadth of services, including compute, database, and storage, focusing on analytics technologies.
• You have experience automating software deployments to AWS and are comfortable defining infrastructure as code.
• You have a track record of creating improvements in business-critical systems around stability, performance, cost, and scalability in AWS.
• You can own large-sized features from technical design through deployment in production.

Additional Information

Benefits/Perks:

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