Senior Software Engineer

Are you a back-end developer looking to make the move to a forward thinking tech company? Do you enjoy designing quality solutions and embracing new technologies? Good news! 1WorldSync is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team.1WorldSync is the industry leader in product content management. With approximately 600 employees across the US, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, and the UK, we’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to support our growing global team.Reporting directly to our Director of Engineering, the Senior Software Engineer will work closely with other engineers of varying disciplines (DevOps, QA, Front-End ReactJS, Full-Stack Ruby, etc), product, data science as well as other parts of the organization. They use AWS with many of our applications written in Java and open-source technologies. We are always looking to adopt modern technology to solve business challengesWe have a team-oriented culture, and you will find yourself working closely with other engineers of varying disciplines, product, data science as well as other parts of the organization. We build and maintain a highly scalable platform that evolves to ever changing business requirements. We learn from our experiences to always improve, and we have fun and celebrate our successes. As Senior Software Engineer at 1WorldSync, responsibilities include the following:

• Build out features and solutions to collect, moderate, deliver and/or performance analytics on user generated content 
• Become an expert on one of our solutions and area of our codebase, while understanding the larger architecture of our entire suite of solutions
• Participate in technical brainstorming and knowledge transfer sessions; provide technical advice at a team level and a department level
• Communicate across teams by collaborating with product managers, UX designers, operations and other development teams to build a holistic experience
• Proactively identify pain points and  potential issues within our architecture and code base, proactively tackles tech debt
• Contribute to each step of the product development process, from ideation and design, to planning and architecting, to building out the solution and infrastructure, to testing, to releasing and maintenance
• Participate, build and implement department CI/CD, application monitoring, security, and general developer tooling initiatives 
• Other duties as assigned

Required Skills and Experience: 

• 5+ years of full stack application development in our language stack (Kotlin, Ruby, Java, Python) and a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar)
• 3+ years of experience developing APIs for front end applications (JavaScript, Elm)
• 3+ years of strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and large data sets
• 1+ years experience leveraging and maintaining CI/CD tooling (CircleCI, Drone, GitHub Actions)
• 1+ years experience leveraging infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation) 

Desired Skills and Experience: 

• Previous experience leveraging automated database DDL (Liquibase, Flyway)
• Previous experience with object data stores (AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, GCP Cloud Storage) and/or document data stores (AWS DynamoDb, MongoDB, NoSQL)
• Previous experience with event driven development (SQS, SNS, Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub) and idempotent patterns
• Previous experience building containerized applications (Docker) and deploying them to orchestration (AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm) 
• Experience with source control tools such as Git

Benefits:

• Incredible health benefits (FSA and HSA options), with dental and vision coverage.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Paid time off as well as company holidays, volunteer time off, sick time, bereavement leave, and 12 weeks of fully paid parental bonding leave.
• Short and long term disability and life insurance.
• Additional optional benefits, including a comprehensive legal plan, pre-tax parking and transit accounts, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, identity theft prevention, tuition reimbursement, and pet insurance. 

Additional Details:

• This is a hybrid position that requires 3 days per week at our Chicago headquarters location.

• This role requires the candidate to have the authority to work in, and be located in the US. 

1WorldSync is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing employees and applicants with an environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at 1WorldSync are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status,