Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack (US)

Summary:

We are looking for technical team members at all levels who want to push themselves to deliver best in market SaaS solutions. We offer a challenging environment where you will have to grow, adapt and use your skills consistently. Our customers rely on us in the moments that matter. Engineering delivers on that promise.

You can read the bullets below. But they almost always look the same, right? Here is the deal – being a principal engineer here at DFIN means helping us deliver SaaS software solutions for our customers that primarily work with the SEC or other global regulating bodies. Our products are in demand because we solve regulatory problems for our customers. As a principal engineer, you’ll own projects end to end, write code that others will look towards as a standard, understand how we operate our systems and make sure our technology continues to evolve and improve.

This isn’t your simple, run-of-the-mill, boring system. This is a system with an interesting mix of design challenges such as eventual consistency, messaging, concurrency, network resiliency, data replication, load/demand prediction, observability engineering, build/deployment optimization, and AI.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement concise, modular, cohesive, frontend and backend services in a distributed system context that are resilient, efficient, and reliable.
  • Ensure automated tests and test frameworks are highly effective in terms of software quality, refactor flexibility, and integration/delivery speed.
  • Concurrent and asynchronous software design/development.
  • Advanced asynchronous and resilient network communications design and implementation.
  • Design, refactor, implement, or work within micro-frontend SPA(s).
  • Judiciously leverage AI, ML, and vector databases in both software development workflows and product feature development.
  • Decompose/distill complex software components along appropriate boundaries.
  • Development on/of complex, but potentially irreducible algorithms or combinatorials.
  • When apparently irreducible problems are encountered and they resist beneficial decomposition (np-ness), find ways to simplify through approximation theory and quantization.
  • Extensively use all aspects of observability systems: instrumentation of code, well-designed queries, dashboards, alerts, and distributed traces.
  • Maintain awareness of production system performance, errors, and code usage.
  • O11y data driven optimization of latency, compute, memory, storage, and network traffic.
  • Communicate with clarity using O11y screens, PRs, POCs, diagrams, documentation, and presentations to other developers, dev teams, SREs, and management.
  • Optimization of local/cloud build, deployment, and IaC provisioning pipelines.
  • Rigorous analysis of escaped defects to determine corrective actions with depth of insight.
  • Design and develop defensively to maintain or increase security going beyond OWASP and zero trust patterns by truly understanding the area of the system being worked on.
  • Rigorous and proficient review and clear feedback on pull requests by team members.
  • Maintain awareness of current relevant technologies, techniques, and tooling.
  • Build software with people. Product managers, other developers, SREs, junior engineers, senior engineers, and offshore. Construct software that matters!
  • Constantly address technical debt. Shine a light on it, even when it hurts.
  • Participate in the planning of technical engineering roadmaps.
  • Plan, lead, or manage projects when called upon to do so while remaining hands on.

Qualifications:

• Commitment to your software development, the products you work on, and the firm.
  • 6-15+ years of experience working in full stack distributed systems.
  • Experience meeting secure coding standards and willing to participate in financial systems security practices.
  • Ability to explain complex topics to managers/directors, program/product managers

• Non-negotiables

o Proficient in one of and willing to work on all of C#, Node JS, Java, Typescript services
o REACT (strongly preferred), Angular, or other SPA frontend development tech stack
o Concurrency and/or asynchronous operations experience.

o Typescript/JavaScript

• Moderate to deep experience with roughly 50% or more of the following

o Redux/Redux-Saga

o Browser APIs

o Compute/memory/latency profiling of SPA apps or backend services
o Algorithm design/optimization and combinatorial problem solving.
o Javascript V8 Engine knowledge/experience
o Messaging systems using tech like Azure Service Bus, Rabbit MQ, etc.
o Distributed systems design/adaptation or P2P systems experience
o JS immutable data structures
o SPA Micro-frontends
o In depth REST, WebSockets, gRPC, graphQL, or other API experience
o Frontend test frameworks
o Browser Canvas
o OCI container usage such as Docker, Podman, and/or AKS/Kubernetes
o Stream processing or functional reactive programming.
o RDBMS such as SQL Databases such as SQL Server or PostgreSQL
o Moderate to deep HTTP protocol/Networking insight
o Azure (Preferred), AWS (Plus), and/or GCP (Translates)
o Build pipelines and ideally IaC such as Terraform

Education:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.