Summary:  

The Clipp.com Senior Software Engineer is responsible for software development projects, designing and implementing robust, scalable, and maintainable solutions in a collaborative fashion. Serving as a technical leader, they are expected to mentor colleagues in their areas of expertise, analyze and break down complicated technical challenges, and make economically-informed arguments for architectural choices while delivering high-quality code to production.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Design, build, and maintain products and features supporting Clipp.com. 
• Partner with the organization’s technical leaders to plan for growth of platform infrastructure. 
• Partner with other teams to use and provide feedback on internal APIs. 
• Translate user needs and business goals from stakeholders into technical terms  in order to design solutions.  
• Implement business logic and write automated tests to deliver designs to production. 
• Adjust team processes, listening to feedback and guiding the team through the changes  
• Maintain very deep knowledge of relevant Clipp.com systems. 

Education/Experience: 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science  or another engineering discipline; Master’s degree a plus 
• Five years of progressively more complex experience delivering high-quality code centered around user needs to production.  
• Production experience with relational database query optimization, serverless functions, designing for cloud native architecture, automated software testing, containers, and client-side performance tuning.  

  Requirements and Qualifications: 

• High level of fluency in Ruby and JavaScript.  
• Interest in optimizing the reliability, latency, and UX of user-facing applications. 
• Problem-solving skills, determination, and a growth mindset. 
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills. 
• Good at mental math.