Staff Backend Software Engineer

## About the Role Feathr's SaaS platform is critical to the value we deliver to our clients. Feathr's Engineers help us grow and maintain the technical components that allow us to meet our diverse customer base's advertising, marketing, and web analytics needs. A Staff Engineer at Feathr has demonstrated interest in and proficiency in web development. You will work under the direction of the Associate Director of Product Engineering on backend software development projects. Engineers at Feathr own their code from planning to maintenance to retirement - you will work with internal and external stakeholders to develop requirements and design technical solutions, collaborate with your engineering colleagues to implement those solutions, deploy and monitor your changes in production, and address issues as they are identified. ## Responsibilities - Work under the direction of the Associate Director of Product Engineering on backend software development projects. - Work with internal and external stakeholders to develop requirements and design technical solutions. - Collaborate with your engineering colleagues to implement those solutions. - Deploy and monitor your changes in production. - Address issues as they are identified. ## Requirements - 6+ years of experience in software development, with a strong focus on SaaS products. - Expertise in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems. - Professional experience owning a process that includes shipping a complicated piece of software to real users. ## Technical Skills - Working with both synchronous and asynchronous environments. - Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis, and Python. - Experience with Advanced ElasticSearch APIs. - Expertise in MongoDB Queries and Aggregations, as well as regular maintenance. - Expertise in AWS infrastructure and services (EC2 and EKS at a minimum). - Experience with self-hosted Drone CI/CD. ## Qualities - Patience and determination to work through complex technical troubleshooting obstacles. - Demonstrated ability to collaborate and manage relationships with internal and external partners. - Constantly look to hone your craft and share what you learn with your colleagues. - Service-oriented team player who is here to achieve success for Feathr, The Product Team, and yourself. - Pragmatic and customer-oriented - you are building software to help customers, not for the sake of building software. - Comfortable adapting to quickly changing conditions. You might be working on one project but need to context switch to another unexpectedly during a critical outage. - Careful, detail-oriented approach to build. ## About the Company As the Nonprofit Marketing Platform trusted by over 1,300 nonprofits, Feathr is purpose-built to help our customers unlock more results, time, and confidence. Feathr's software marketing platform equips nonprofits with the tools they need to build purposeful connections with their community and grow impact with confidence. We're working on building an amazing culture at Feathr, where amazing people (like you) can do their best work. If you're ready to grow and "help the helpers" you've come to the right place. ## What We Offer - Fully remote - Health/dental/vision insurance - Company Holidays + Winter Break - Paid vacation + sick time off