Our Staff Engineer is a mid-level member of the Voice engineering staff ensuring we provide a friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of security and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high-quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.
Responsibilities
Provides technical architecture & leadership for a team within a domain or medium cross-functional projects, and mentor relatively junior engineers
Implement complex parts of a system or a product
Ship high-quality work following best practices, such as adequate testing, successful rollout, and consistent monitoring
Lead efforts that set the direction for the rest of the team
Propose short-term and long-term design solutions for pain points in the system or product with clear deliverables and action items
Defines metrics and solutions translating to increased service maturity
Demonstrates incident response and problem determination leadership
Develop and obtain consensus on enterprise wide guidelines and policies
Qualifications
Advanced experience with Amazon Connect including Contact Flows, Security Profiles, Routing Profiles, Queues, Quick Connects
Advanced experience with Amazon Web Services including Lambda, Lex, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Step Functions, CloudWatch
Expert experience using multiple programming languages including Node.js, Python, C#
Experience implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform
Experience integrating with internal and external applications
Expert in one or more areas of software, data, systems design, development, deployment and operation
Expert in cloud, infrastructure, DevSecOps, automation and plays a lead role in building scalable solutions
Expert in data ingestion and transformation
Contributed to improvements in organizational metrics such as DORA metrics that measure improvements in team velocity and stability of service delivery
Experience and understanding of Security Protocols and Products such as Active Directory, SAML, IAM
Communicate effectively with a diverse team and fosters a culture of clear, concise, effective, audience-oriented communication on their team, ensuring teammates actively listen to others and are understood. Actively demonstrates these behaviors.
Consistently helps their teammates overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks. Gives or shares credit where due.
Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
AWS Certifications at the Associate, Professional, or Specialty level
Experience
6+ years of experience in Contact Center technologies and Cloud Architecture
6+ years of professional software development experience
3+ years experience with architecture and design
3+ years of hands-on experience developing Contact Flows, Routing Profiles, Queues Lambdas, and Lex Bots
3+ years of experience using Terraform as Infrastructure as Code
4+ years of experience in open source frameworks
1+ years of people management experience
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
Benefits:
As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:
Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave401(k) PlanTuition AssistancePaid Training and Licensures*Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.
**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.
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