Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Platform
Location: Remote
Job Type: Full-time

About the Role

You will be part of the Platform team that is responsible for establishing the foundational patterns and central systems such as authentication, federated GraphQL, data orchestration and application architectures.

Your focus will be to deliver the GraphQL client and service development best practices, runtime tooling and architecture support necessary for teams across the Engineering department at LottieFiles to build exceptional clients, services and systems.

Responsibilities

Demonstrate knowledge of GraphQL in a distributed system, service development, DevOps practices and support.

Ensure services are developed to industry best practices, including observability, architectural patters and inter-team dependency mechanisms

Drive high-impact solutions at a team level, including inception, design, execution and delivery following good design and coding practices

Write code to implement high-quality, scalable, future-proof features that solve platform level problems and support long term vision and strategy

Participate in technical discussions within and across teams to come up with documented conclusions

Identify risks and gaps in technical approaches and propose solutions to meet the teams’ technical vision

Work closely with product managers, designers and service teams to define project requirements and execution plans

Requirements

At least 5 year of proven development experience in a leading / ownership role (must have)

Hands-on experience delivering software within high-growth environments at scale

Experienced in designing and building large-scale, cloud-based systems across various projects

Experience operating distributed services at scale, including familiarity with observability tools, logging techniques, troubleshooting, and incident response.

Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving solutions forward and ability to influence results

Proficient in JavaScript and TypeScript, with experience developing applications using current frontend / backend frameworks

Experience with one or more common open source platforms, tools and framework, eg: GraphQL, Node.js, React, Kubernetes, etc.

Experience with GraphQL, Federated Gateways is a plus

You are able to work and thrive in a fully remote environment

Excellent communicator (important for a remote team) in English 

Perks

Fully Remote Working Environment

Flexible Work Hours

A welcome gift and swag pack

Bonus to set up your workstation at home

Unlimited Leave Days

Medical Insurance

Generous learning budget

Gym membership

Co-working space membership