Senior Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead

Favor’s mission is ‘Anything Delivered’. Our engineers make high-touch logistics happen. The Favor technology platform is the engine behind the business, enabling millions of Favors. Our technology efficiently manages the real-time assignment of Runners to Favors, facilitates communication between customers, Runners, and support, keeps thousands of customer and Runner mobile applications in sync, and more. 
Do you get a thrill when you impact hundreds of thousands of users? Do you want to work for a purpose-driven, value-driven company in a high-growth environment? Our engineers create the tools and applications to connect our customers, Runners, merchants, and support teams. You will work closely with our product and operations teams to understand customer needs, build simple solutions to complex problems, and deliver delightful experiences to all our users. 
At Favor, we are committed to building a world-class team that shares a passion for modern, clean code and products that make a difference. We need engineers like you to help us achieve our mission of ‘Anything Delivered’. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at Favor you will be responsible for all phases of development, testing, and deployment of our applications. 

What you'll do:

• Recommend changes to processes and tools at the engineering organization level based on industry standards, patterns, and practices.  
• Lead architectural design and help other engineers to understand system/application designs. 
• Work with engineering across all disciplines and product management to plan solutions for large features; eliminate barriers to scale through technology and process and providing building blocks  of world-class applications and services.  
• Understand company goals, and develop technical solutions, vision, and strategy to advance the  company's goals and strategy.  
• Responsible for all phases of development, testing, and deployment of web  applications, back-end services, databases, and data warehouse. 

Skills you have:

• A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience.
• Expert in understanding of software design patterns to write clean, well-structured, idiomatic code leveraging  the full power of a language.
• 10+ years of relevant software engineering experience; including experience in a high-growth  startup.
• Experience or familiarity with one or more of Kotlin, Scala, PHP, Java, Python, Node.js, C#, MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, DocumentDB/MongoDB, Kafka, Docker,  Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Elasticsearch.

Who you are:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate difficult technical concepts  in precise, concise, and unambiguous terms with technical (UX, design, product management and across engineering teams) and non-technical stakeholders and work with other engineers in a collaborative and iterative environment. 
• Ability to lead larger initiatives working with the product, design, and engineering teams.
• Appreciation of simple design and a love to write clean, well-tested code - test first or TDD approaches are a plus.
• Knowledge of how different parts of a system architecture will work together and ability to diagnose issues within the system.
• Ability to gather and define software requirements considering multiple patterns and strategies to build efficient solutions.
• Ability to create solutions to problems under various constraints using novel algorithms and data structures.
• Expert in understanding of test automation techniques, data engineering, and security.

Life at Favor
Where you'll work: This role can be hybrid or remote, depending on the team member’s location in Texas. If you live in Austin, Texas, we ask that you work from home roughly three days per week and work at our HQ for the remaining work days. If you live in a different city in Texas, you will primarily work from home, with the opportunity to travel to Austin for company-wide events. No matter where you work best, we foster an inclusive and flexible environment to support our workforce.
Benefits: We offer premium health, vision, dental, and life insurance, alongside 401(k) options. We go beyond the basics, while also throwing in Favor delivery fee credit and H-E-B discounts! 
Paid time off (PTO): We offer unlimited PTO for salaried employees (that’s actually unlimited) and ample vacation time to all team members.
Learning and development: We encourage personal growth and education through Intern(al)ships and Learning Labs taught by Favor team members and external facilitators.
Community: Whether you’re an avid cyclist, dog lover, or Magic enthusiast, there’s a group for you here. We foster community through Employee Resourc