About the role

Staff Engineer collaborating across teams to develop inclusive financial products for small businesses. Working with cutting-edge technology in an agile environment at Wave.

Responsibilities

Writing clear, concise, elegant, and well-tested code in Python, Ruby, and/or JavaScript.
Working as part of a small, agile, integrated product team that’s focused on continual improvement of their skills and helping each other learn new things.
Learning new technical skills with tools or frameworks needed to execute on tasks.
Delivering code that goes beyond what is strictly assigned.
Taking complete ownership of major initiatives or complex tasks from definition to delivery.
Monitoring or alerts needed to support and maintain new initiatives post-launch.
Substantially improves the quality of software delivery for all of Engineering.
Working with other leaders at Wave to understand larger business needs and initiating projects to meet.

10+ years experience as an application developer or equivalent experience on a developer tools team.
Mastery of some combination of Python, Ruby, JavaScript and/or other computer languages.
Experience with observability and alerting tools such as Datadog and PagerDuty.
Experience in developer education by producing written documentation.
Are knowledgeable about what makes a great developer experience and have the ability to improve it by configuring or creating tools and scripts.
Have experience in Terraform configuration.
Have experience in Kafka configuration for applications.
Understand container orchestration from an application developers point of view.
Have experience across entire ecosystems from Local dev all the way through to Production.
Enjoy continually learning and using new technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS Lambda.
Are passionate and knowledgeable about engineering excellence and have the ability to educate others through written documentation, example code and presentations.
Occasional requirement to be on-call outside of standard hours.