Senior Software Engineer

Over 8 years of professional experience crafting and shipping production software or n-tier services at scale.

Exceptional skills in object-oriented design, with deep expertise in Java (our primary stack) and/or Python & Go.

A proven track record of delivering end-to-end systems, including cross-service integrations and extensibility frameworks.

A talent for technical writing and architectural leadership, with the ability to win peer buy-in for your designs.

A productivity-first mindset using AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, etc.) to enhance your workflow without sacrificing critical judgment.

Experience modeling AI-augmented habits for your peers, sharing techniques that help the whole team level up.

Expertise in microservices and distributed systems that are built for resilience.

Strong communicative clarity, capable of translating deep technical complexity for anyone from a peer to a non-technical stakeholder.

Passion for technical leadership and a history of successfully mentoring other engineers.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Experience building or maintaining data connectors, ETL pipelines, or metadata extraction frameworks

Working experience with Kubernetes and/or Docker in a production context

Exposure to JDBC, ODBC, or vendor-specific APIs for enterprise data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, SAP, etc.)

Familiarity with data catalog concepts — metadata, lineage, data quality

Experience with Airflow

Exposure to data modeling in RDBMS

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