Senior Staff / Principal Engineer
Company: SpotHero
Location: Chicago
Posted on: May 28, 2023
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Job Description:
Position DetailsSpotHero is looking for Principal/Senior Staff
Engineers.You will have over twelve years of engineering
experience, worked for multiple companies as a software engineer
and have become an Expert or a Polymath in Software Engineering,
one of our Dominant Tech Stacks (See Below).You could be a Backend,
Frontend or Mobile focused engineer.You have strong coding skills
and strong system design/architecture capabilities. with multiple
examples of successful projects that you have worked on and a
couple of failed projects that taught you not to build a "perfect"
ivory tower that no-one wants to use.You will collaborate with
management on vision setting, technology direction, architecture,
and best practices. The Principal/Senior Staff Engineer will
contribute to the codebase following set standards and successfully
completing stories and have the ability to provide support for any
part of the codebase; also able to understand the codebase with
minimal direction from others. You will have ownership of code
standards, unit and integration testing practices, and technical
roadmap. You are a technical educator not a technical dictator.Work
with the Product Management team to ensure requirements are defined
correctly. Ability to successfully architect complex systems and
collaborate with more junior engineers to ensure proper
implementation of design. You will be an educator who can take the
complex and explain it in terms that all audiences understand. Your
greatest work will be through others, as you help people level up
their technical systems.Who we are:At SpotHero, we work as a team
to empower people to get everywhere, easier! We're rapidly growing
with the mission of bringing the parking industry into the future
through technology. Drivers across the nation use the SpotHero
mobile app or website to reserve convenient, affordable parking in
advance, on-the-go or through their connected cars, and parking
companies rely on us to help them reach new customers while
optimizing their business. We connect the dots with cutting-edge
technology, delivering value to both sides of this exciting,
evolving marketplace.What will you do:* Identify, design, develop,
test, and release high quality functionality as efficiently as
possible.* You will be an educator, a mentor and coach. People will
come to you for advice because you are approachable and you are
able to convey your points in a language that they understand.*
Build and maintain tools and services related to
product/engineering squad's goals.* Work collaboratively with the
rest of the Engineering team to deliver quality products with a
focus on speed, security, and analytics.* Independently identify
areas for improvement and innovation within the squad ecosystem,
and lead the charge on making those changes.* Be a key hands-on
contributor to the design and implementation of new products and
features through the entire stack.* Ownership of a codebase,
maintaining it and ensuring it runs consistently.* Collaborate with
all senior and staff level engineers to explore options and help
define architecture and design across the engineering
organization.* Ability to move between squads to devise
architecture and assist projects in moving forward.* Educate
Software Engineers to work with Distributed architecture and System
Design across Systems* Function as a leader within the engineering
department, providing mentoring and training to all levels of
engineering team members.* Function as internal expert for
technology speciality and educate the team on new and changing
technologies.* Be an industry thought leader, participating in
public speaking events and meetups to showcase SpotHero as a leader
in technology.* Secure and safeguard data to preserve its
integrity, reliability, and availability and ensure appropriate
access levels are maintained.The following experience is relevant
to us:* We value humility, a strong work ethic, flexibility,
collaboration, technical curiosity, and constant learning.* 12+
years experience as an engineer across multiple environments.* You
are comfortable in considering the right Architecture for the right
job, as opposed to forcing one approach on all problems.*
Knowledgeable of object-oriented and/or functional programming
patterns and paradigms.* Relevant Tech Stacks to SpotHero*
Production Experience and strong skills with Python/Django OR*
Production Experience and strong skills with Kotlin Backend
Services OR* Production Experience and strong skills with GoLang
Backend Services OR* Production Experience and strong skills with
JavaScript/TypeScript/React OR* Production Experience and strong
skills with iOS Swift OR* Production Experience and strong skills
with Kotlin in Android* Ability to work in all areas of the tech
stack, including infrastructure through the application layer to
client libraries.* Ability to provide support for any pieces of
codebase owned and also understand the codebase with minimal
direction from peers or more senior engineers.* Proven ability to
work on implementation independently.* Strong experience working
with relational databases like Postgres and mySQL.* Knowledge of
various API paradigms such as REST and RPC and can implement them
within the services you are developing on.* Demonstrated leadership
and mentorship skills.Technology we use:* Our Android Stack is:
Kotlin and XML (standard for Android apps) using MVI architecture
(still working on refactoring old views), our database layer is
built in Realm. Bitrise for CI/CD. We also make heavy use of
Dagger, RxJava, Espresso (testing). Network stack uses Retrofit.*
Our iOS Stack is: Swift using MVC architecture, CoreData for Local
Storage, XCUI for UI Testing, XCTest for Unit testing, SPM for
Package Management, Fastlane for app automation and build scripts,
Bitrise for CI/CD, and Sentry for crash reporting.* Our Back End
Stack is: Monolith using Django/Python/PostgreSQL. We are moving
our Monolith to a Modular Monolith, using Domain Driven Design.
When relevant we extract specific domains to Services currently
using Java, Kotlin and GoLang. We also use Docker, deploy our apps
via Kubernetes. We use Kafka for asynchronous-, and gRPC for
synchronous service-to-service communication. Our Integrations are
on a .Net CORE, moving to Kotlin.* Our Front End Stack is: Our
Front End stack is React/Redux, Sass, Jest/React Testing
Library/Cypress, and Webpack. We maintain a private npm repository
with shareable UI components, utility functions,
Babel/ESLint/Prettier configurations, and custom tasks.* Our Data
Stack is: Our Monolith Database is Postgres and Redis for caching.
We also use Redshift as our data warehouse and S3 as our data lake.
The data lake is queried using Presto. We use Airflow and Spark for
ETL, as well as do some stream processing (Kafka Streams and Spark
at the moment). Our Model pipeline uses scikit-learn, pandas. Our
analysts utilize Looker as our Business Intelligence tool. And we
use Quicksight for Dashboard on our external Data Products.* Our
Dev Tools Stack is: AWS+Kubernetes for hosting. Terraform + Helm
Charts for IaaS/Deployment. ConcourseCI for CI/CD.
Prometheus/Alertmanager/VictorOps for team alerting. We're starting
to work on multi-region available services.What we are offering:*
Career game changer - A truly unique experience to work for a
fast-growing startup in a role with unlimited potential for
growth.* Excellent benefits -* In the US we cover up to 95% of
Medical Premiums, 50% of Dental & Vision Premiums, company
sponsored Life Insurance, and generous parental leave.* In Canada
we offer Medical (prescription drug and paramedical coverage),
Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, STD and LTD.* Flexible PTO policy
and great work/life balance - We value and support each individual
team member.* Annual parking stipend - we help people park!* The
opportunity to collaborate with fun, innovative, and passionate
people in a casual, yet highly productive atmosphere.* A workplace
recognized as the Best Consumer Web Company by Built in Chicago,
Top Company Culture by Entrepreneur, a Top Workplace by Chicago
Tribune, and one of Chicago's Best Places to Work for Women Under
35 by Crain's Chicago Business.Steps to apply: Please include any
GitHub account, LinkedIn profile, and any project that you're
particularly proud of. We love seeing work that others loved
working on.At SpotHero, we Respect Fellow Drivers by providing an
inclusive interview experience for everyone, including people with
disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to
candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring
process. Please let our team know of your need when you apply or as
you begin interviewing with our team.Additionally, because we want
to Remember to Signal, if you choose to provide us personal
information in connection with a job application, please review our
Applicant Privacy Notice which provides details about what
information we collect and process about you in order to consider
your candidacy.SpotHero is an equal opportunity employer. We know
that a diverse workforce is the strongest workforce, and are
committed to building and supporting an inclusive environment for
all.
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