Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify, prioritize, design and deliver technical platform solutions spanning areas like cloud infrastructure, test infrastructure & patterns, shared product libraries, security practices, authentication platform and CI/CD tooling.
• Engage with engineering stakeholders to understand pain points and opportunities to enable Timely to deliver value quickly while maintaining quality.
• Drive the investigation and decisioning on key technology decisions impacting how Timely builds and maintains software.
• Own production availability by implementing observability and recovery practices for Timely applications while providing periodic on-call support.
• Uplevel the Timely engineering team on platform technologies and engineering patterns by maintaining documentation, presenting in different venues, providing cross-team design/code reviews, and mentoring team members.
• Own the delivery of critical projects by defining scope, creating tickets, and managing delivery timelines.
• Mentor and support junior engineers, promoting a culture of collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience in infrastructure and platform engineering and comfort with the following (or equivalent) technologies: AWS, Terraform, MongoDB, Python, CI/CD via Github Actions.
• Ability to design and develop solutions full-stack to deliver value for the engineering team and wider business, including in the Frontend when necessary.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially in cross-functional environments.
• Commitment to continuous improvement: seeking out and welcoming code reviews, pairing, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Experience working in agile environments and familiarity with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Pytest).
• Experience and comfort operating in a fast startup environment and all that entails: strong ownership, self direction, prompt delivery of value to the customer & learnings for the business.
• Scaling and cyber security experience is preferable.
• Prior experience in EdTech is a plus but not required.
• Fully remote role with a preference for candidates based in NY or Boston.

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