Senior Software Engineer I

About the job
WHAT YOU'LL DO

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer for our Currents team, responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving Currents, our data export system at scale. The Currents system is a robust Kafka-based event pipeline handling tens of billions of messages daily that our customers leverage to analyze user behavior in near real-time.

You’ll be a key engineer on a highly collaborative and skilled team, responsible for bringing projects from concept to production and improving our existing high-scale systems. You will be leveraging your past experiences, your skills, and a strong sense of teamwork to tackle the significant engineering challenges of running a critical data streaming system.

WHO YOU ARE

5+ years of full-stack development experience
Experience building foundational systems at scale and spearheading software projects that significantly advanced the goals of your organization
Leads by example. Excellent at mentoring engineers. Makes your colleagues better
Self-starter with great communication and organizational skills and experience working in a highly collaborative team environment
Experience with Kafka at scale, or comparable technology
Professional experience working with distributed systems and/or microservices
Bonus if you’ve worked with Java, Kotlin, Confluent, or React