Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Narvar is Growing! We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to build new product features that delight our customers. You will play a key role in guiding the future of our web application at Narvar by partnering with a cross-functional team including Engineers, Designers, Product Managers, and engineering leadership. You will lead process improvements that increase the velocity of the team, accelerating product development. As a Staff Engineer you will build a strong product-minded engineering culture by mentoring and guiding all levels of engineers.

Day-to-day

Own the architecture of new product platforms to drive business results and support extending existing ones.

Implement scalable architecture and work on a committed team contributing to robust projects

Write high-quality code that is modular, extendible and functional.

Advocate for best patterns and practices in the area of system design, coding, performance, and testing.

Developing a highly concurrent and distributed system.

Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains

Work with cross-functional stakeholders including Product, Design, Sales, and Engineering Leadership to help break down business requirements into actionable plans

Mentoring junior engineers on design, coding, and troubleshooting.

What we're looking for

BS/MS in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience

You have 10+ years of experience as a software engineer working on distributed systems

Numerous years of hands-on experience in architecture, design and development of enterprise applications, integrations & data infrastructure

You have experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems

You have experience with managing large, complex systems in the cloud

You have proven track record in delivering efficient, scalable, reliable and maintainable customer facing systems on time

You are not afraid to take initiative and help make an impact on the larger organization

You have solid organizational and communication skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule

Deep hands-on expertise in one or more of the following server-side languages: Java, Python, Go, Scala, Rust

Extensive experience designing, building, and integrating with RESTful APIs

Experience designing and scaling relational and NoSQL database platforms (such as MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticache)

Experience with cloud computing platforms like AWS or GCP

Experience building high volume, high performance, and highly available SaaS or consumer-facing products

Previous startup experience strongly preferred

Bonus Points

You have demonstrated experience managing, delivering and owning the services end-to-end

You have solid track record engaging and collaborating across the organization in diff