Senior Back-End Engineer

Top Five Skills

Connects with the Mission

Wider Circle’s mission should be a significant factor in this person’s desire to consider the position. The right candidate will be a values-driven individual who immediately aligns with Wider Circle’s values, connects and compliments teammates, and demonstrates the appropriate passion within their personal life.

Flexibility

Wider Circle is known for their consistency, passion, and flexibility to respond to member and customer needs. Candidates should prefer the types of processes, team dynamics, and velocity to thrive in this type of dynamic environment to address these evolving needs.

Seasoned Senior Developer

The candidate should have 6+ years of prior software development and architecture experience. They should be familiar working for a company and team of similar size, at the same point in the company’s trajectory. They must be comfortable executing successfully on internal and external projects and pilots. They should have experience working with, mentoring, and possibly leading a remote and geographically distributed team that includes offshore developers. They should be familiar with the end-to-end recruiting process of screening, interviewing, and training the right resources in order to grow their teams. And finally, they should be seasoned communicators, who are capable of collaborating not only with their internal team, but external stakeholders as well.

Breadth of Technical Knowledge

In order to effectively design and build software solutions, the candidate needs a mix of web front-end and mobile development expertise, including both native mobile and cross-platform frameworks. They should be fluent with platforms and languages such as JavaScript, CSS, JQuery, Bootstrap, React, React Native, and Flutter. They must be familiar with JIRA, agile methodologies, and squad organizational structures, as well as branching strategies and continuous integration. They should be capable of creating front-end architectures that are both scalable and optimized for performance. They should be comfortable working with UI/UX designers and translating wireframes and mockups to live solutions. In addition to designing systems and mentoring others, they will be expected to write their own code, perform code reviews, and manage source code repository branches. They should also be able to manage sprints and backlogs, lead software design and architecture discussions, and be the champion for internal tech debt improvements.

Been There, Done That Attitude

We are looking for someone with a proven track record of transitioning and improving products in small/medium startups as the companies scale. They should have experience making calls on build vs. buy, and maintaining original tools vs. creating next-generation solutions. The candidate should have a knack for reducing bottlenecks and manual processes in order to streamline software development, increase velocity, and deliver solutions on time or ahead of schedule. They should have the confidence to take on tough engineering tasks and projects with assistance and partnership from Product Management and senior leadership, but without requiring constant oversight. And finally, they should be interested in an eventual team lead career path.

Responsibilities

• Designing and leading the implementation of our next-generation products
• Supporting our existing products in a maintenance mode while gradually migrating functionality to the new products
• Research, pilot, and integrate third-party solutions into our product suite
• Guiding and mentoring internal and external staff augmentation engineers in a remote, distributed environment
• Working with the Product and Engineering management to scope and execute items on the product roadmap and ensure that solutions are delivered on time and on budget
• Participating in the complete software development lifecycle from requirement definitions to deployment
• Working with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements and translate them into working features and products
• Helping to expand the team over time by interviewing and training onshore and outsourced vendors
• Collaborating with the lead architect and other developers on the system design and architecture
• Working in an agile environment, including sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, and close coordination with squad leads-

Requirements

• 5+ years of senior software engineering experience working
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or related field preferred
• Demonstrated ability to complete projects on time and on budget
• Detailed knowledge of contributing and leading softwar