Staff Software Engineer, Growth, Level 6

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.

Snap Engineering teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snapchatters around the world, every day. We’re deeply committed to the well-being of everyone in our global community, which is why our values are at the root of everything we do. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Growth team at Snap.

What you’ll do:

• Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products or services

• Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management

• Technical influence that spans the entire Messaging and Growth organization

• Balance near, medium and long-term objectives to achieve business goals today while laying the foundations for a long term roadmap

• Mentor a team of developers, in a fast-paced, quick-to-market environment

• Set the strategy, build a roadmap, create measurable goals, and lead the team to deliver

• Collaborate with Product, Operation, Data Science and Engineering teams, and executive stakeholders

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Excellent programming and software design skills, including debugging, performance analysis, and test design

• Background with building high availability and mission critical systems

• Ability leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives

• Ability to collaborate with internal stakeholders at all levels of a company

• Skilled at solving ambiguous problems

• Strong collaboration and mentorship skills

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelors in technical field such as computer science, mathematics, statistics or equivalent years of experience

• 9+ years of industry experience

• 2+ years of experience with technical leadership or acting as the domain-expert to a technical organization

• Experience in technical leadership/ownership and setting technical direction for engineering projects

• Experience architecting, designing, and developing distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in technical leadership/ownership and setting technical direction for engineering projects

• Proven track record of delivering large scale projects in attribution and measurement

• Experience operating highly-available systems at significant scale 

• Experience with backend services or distributed systems 

• Experience with push notifications, telephony, and email systems.

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