Sr. Software Engineer
Do you have experience as a Team Lead or Tech Lead on an agile development team building a modern web product? Are you an experienced web engineer who's passionate about building web platforms in a fast growing company with awesome coworkers and customers? Are you constantly trying to improve engineering processes and encourage good engineering practice?
At Namely, we're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team, where you'll contribute ideas and develop innovative solutions to a variety of business needs across Namely. In this role, you'll be leading a cross-functional Agile team, identifying best practices for the technology, architecture, and process decisions, and owning communication with your product partners.
Requirements
- BS / BA / equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience building web applications and platforms.
- Experience leading a cross functional agile team, and promoting modern best practices in process and technology within the web stack.
- Experience building, shipping and maintaining web apps and services on the server level for a web based stack.
- Fluency in at least one open source server-side programming language (preferably Ruby or Python).
- Knowledge of modern front-end JS libraries and CSS frameworks / patterns such as React, BEM, PostCSS.
- Experience with version control and group repositories on a codebase with other developers (preferably Git / GitHub).
- Comfortable with the command-line interface
Nice to Have
- Experience prototyping and architecting solutions in a SQL database.
- Experience with microservices architecture.
- Experience with Docker.
- Strong analytical and technical skills to identify critical and impacting issues, escalate them and drive them to resolution.
- Strong quality assurance (QA) and bug fixing abilities.
- Pair programming experience.
- Comfortable using collaborative software to track development tasks.
- Test Driven Development skills, including integration and unit testing.
- Comfortable using bug tracking software and a debugger.
About Namely
Namely is the first HR, payroll, and benefits platform employees actually love to use. People are at the center of everything we do—from our platform to our staff. Why join us? We believe every company and every employee deserves a great workplace, supported by HR technology they use and love. Most importantly, we believe in giving you the tools you need to do the best work of your career.