Senior Software Engineer

Description

This senior software engineer role is based at 55 Madison Street, Denver, CO 80206.

You will work across the software lifecycle, from gathering requirements to running applications, on the company's existing software products and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Compare customer and business expectations with the current product and solutions to find gaps, updates and changes. For agile work, limit this to the current iteration.
• Sort requirements into their relevant types.
• Spot likely risks and problems while gathering requirements, alert the right stakeholders and propose corrective steps.
• Help write user stories for components, applications and architecture.
• Help design solutions so that processes and applications work together across specific components and modules.
• Weigh trade-offs in component design against business needs.
• Help turn high-level designs into detailed designs, including mock screens, pseudocode and functional logic for modules.
• Write and configure lean code for whole components or applications, making sure they meet business, technical and non-functional needs with low maintenance, high availability and high scalability.
• Help choose suitable languages, development standards and tools.
• Proactively learn the basics of languages and frameworks that will be useful later.
• Write scripts that automate repetitive, routine work in CI/CD, testing and other processes.
• Build telemetry features on your own when needed.
• Make sure security policies are applied in code and configuration.
• Turn customer requirements into test objectives, then design test cases for components or modules.
• Run tests to find errors and defects across the full component, using suitable tools for each type of test.
• Track and analyze defects in components or modules, and run regression testing after every code change to fix them.
• Review defects from earlier engineering work to prevent similar ones from recurring.
• Find and resolve performance and availability bottlenecks in applications.
• Handle complex maintenance tasks on your own.
• Track relevant metrics to monitor and assess application performance.
• Carry out corrective, adaptive and perfective maintenance, along with re-engineering work.
• Analyze application logs, maintenance records and performance data, and report your findings.
• Assess change requests and decide which are valid and feasible.

Requirements

• You hold a Master's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering or a related field, plus 1 year of experience in software engineering or a related area.
• Or you hold a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in those fields, plus 3 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
• You have designed and built platforms on Kubernetes.
• You have implemented and supported Kubernetes controllers for platforms such as cert-manager, kyverno and argocd.
• You have programmed in Go, an imperative language.
• You have designed CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Argo.
• You have built Infrastructure as Code modules with Terraform.
• You have set up observability alarm pipelines.
• You have handled on-call duty, incident response and monitoring for critical applications.
• You have managed application configurations and secrets in Kubernetes.
• You have tested and troubleshot software with unit and integration tests.
• You have built Helm charts for Kubernetes platforms so developers can focus on application details.
• You have reviewed designs and code and given feedback that keeps best practices in place.
• Experience of any length is accepted, provided you have the skills above.

Conditions

The role is based at 55 Madison Street, Denver, CO 80206.

Base salary ranges from $126,901 to $198,000 per year.

Eligibility for some benefits depends on your job classification and length of employment, and benefits may change or follow the terms of a specific plan or program.

The company is an equal opportunity employer.

The company keeps a drug-free workplace and does not tolerate illegal drugs or alcohol on the job, for all employees.

Benefits

• Performance-based incentive awards, paid annually or quarterly.
• Medical, vision and dental health coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off, including PTO with sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting.
• Short-term and long-term disability cover.
• Education assistance covering 100% of college degree costs, paid by the company.
• Company discounts, military service pay and adoption expense reimbursement, among other benefits.