About the Role
Sr. Staff Software Engineer
at AudioEye
Remote – United States (Base Salary $175,000 – $225,000)
We look for engineers who are passionate problem solvers, motivated by ownership and autonomy who get energy from continuously shipping and adding value for our customers.
Sr. Staff Engineers can make major contributions to our mission, own decisions for the system, design solutions from the ground up, and work on solving digital accessibility at scale. This role will regularly take on large and new visions leading engineering teams to build systems and deliver systems to make our mission a reality for our users.
Our mission at AudioEye is to eradicate every barrier to digital access because we believe equal access to digital content is the right of every individual and the responsibility of every entity.
AudioEye is a team of passionate professionals dedicated to our ambitious goal of accessibility for all. Our mission guides us through every challenge and keeps our focus on our purpose changing the way the world uses the internet forever.
How youll Contribute:
- Create customer value by understanding customer needs as well as the needs of the end users benefiting from our technology
- Own a problem wherever it takes them whether across technology stacks, teams, or roles
- Build web scale solutions striking a balance between whats required today and whats essential long-term
- Understand service-oriented architecture, data modeling, performance optimization, and end-to-end software delivery
- Bias for action and iterate to success can unblock themselves when necessary
- Try new technologies and adopt the best tool for the job
- Work across all layers of the technology stack
- Work with a diverse set of individuals across organizational boundaries – including and especially their peers in Design and Product
- Create a culture that values quality, standards, and engineering excellence
- Lead engineers in one or more talented engineering teams for needs assessment, system design, implementation, and operations automation
- Collaborate closely with engineers, product owners, strategists, and leaders across the company to design and deliver systems
- Partner closely with engineers to support their specific needs while maintaining a very high level of system reliability, security, and consistency of data and experiences
- Drive and lead the technical roadmap to help the team deliver the best quality systems to interface effectively with the rest of engineering
- Actively mentor and coach other engineers for their requirements engineering, system design, and technical problem solving
- Scale through others – setting direction and planning for engineering teams
Who you are:
- 10+ years of engineering experience with design, implementation, and operations of critical systems
- Demonstrated success working in cross-functional environments, advocate for tight collaboration between engineering, user experience, and product teams, and are comfortable making engineering and system-level decisions and tradeoffs
- Demonstrated track record of solving deep technical problems in distributed systems and real time data technologies
- Designed, implemented, and operated systems that are highly compliant, secure and scalable that form the backbone for the highest impacting user experiences
- Experience mentoring both junior and senior engineers
- Strong expertise in leading large projects across multiple teams
- Thrives while working closely with engineers at all levels
- Thrives on a high level of autonomy, ownership, and responsibility
- Contribute to developing a healthy engineering and product work environment thats both supportive and challenging
- An engineering leader who models good engineer behavior, practices, and processes
Preferred Skills:
More than specific technologies/skills, we value flexible learners who find the right tool for the job. But these are also immediately useful to this position:
- Development experience writing and maintaining SDK offerings
- Deep understanding of CI/CD tooling, build systems, artifact systems, etc…
- Experience maintaining public API offerings
- Javascript, HTML, DOM, CSS
- NodeJS, Typescript
- Experience working with open-source technologies
- React or equivalent MVVM framework
- Relational database design
- NoSQL technologies, document/object storage