We are currently expanding and looking for product-orientedStaff Product Engineers (Fullstack)who have a passion for building products that provide seamless customer experience.
You will work to design, build, and support many of the core systems powering StashAway software and user experience, working either in ourFinancial Productsdomain (building new and maintaining existing investment products, working on product discovery and investor guidance flows, and building internal tooling for portfolio management), or ourOnboarding and Account Lifecycledomain (driving conversion from sign-up to investor through a delightful onboarding experience, handling complex region-specific regulatory requirements for period account review, and building internal tooling for our customer experience and operations team to manage users).
Being part of StashAway's Engineering team, you will build end-to-end product features that you are confident deliver delightful user experiences. You will need to leverage the entire technology stack to realise these goals and will be part of a team that is constantly tackling difficult questions of scale, architecture, and interaction.
As a Staff Engineer, you will also play a pivotal role in technical decision making and leadership to define and maintain our engineering standards, culture, and community.
Your contribution to a dynamic Engineering team allows you to be exposed to a variety of concepts and technologies. You will enjoy being able to have a direct impact on StashAway's internationalisation plans, and the development of features and new investment products.
Responsibilities
Work across the stack to build efficient, scalable, and robust solutions, primarily using Typescript, Node.js, React/React Native, and Go.
Work in a collaborative agile environment alongside engineers, product managers, designers, and business stakeholders, to maintain a high bar for delivering high-quality code and fast-paced product value.
Shepherd the definition and improvement of our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices. Maintain and evangelise these standards through code review, coaching, brown-bags, and tooling.
Proactively seek out blockers to our efficiency as a team (e.g. technical debt, DX, processes), and propose and implement solutions that will enable the team to iterate faster.
Drive innovation across the engineering organisation as a SME for a particular technical discipline, with a willingness to experiment and confront problems of high complexity and wide scope.
Guide, coach, and mentor engineers to help them grow in their technical responsibilities.
Work closely with your Tech Lead to design, scope, and lead technical decision making through the lens of sustainable technical architecture decisions.
Must-haves
8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a senior or staff-level role.
A strong product mindset, with a passion to deliver high quality experience to customers, not just high quality code.
Versatility in working across frontend, backend, and infrastructure, with a willingness to learn and adapt as needed.
Significant professional experience in designing and developing highly-available distributed systems and micro-service architectures, considering both service-to-service and client-to-service communication.
Strong knowledge and experience in one or more tech ecosystems / frameworks (e.g. nodejs, typescript, express, nestjs).
Significant professional experience in building web or mobile applications using React and React Native, with an emphasis on architecture, design patterns, optimisation, and scalability.
Strong knowledge and understanding of relational databases.
Experience in and understanding of when to use various communication patterns, such as REST, Kafka, gRPC.
Strong knowledge and experience with cloud-native technologies (containerisation, orchestration, service meshes, etc.).
Proficiency in performance optimisation, using caching, auto-scaling, database optimisation, resource management, asynchronous processing, etc.
Proficiency in using monitoring systems, configuring dashboards and alerts, to tune performance, optimise system reliability, and lead incident response.
Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and organisational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
Demonstrated ability in providing technical mentorship and guidance to junior engineers.
Strong collaboration skills, with experience working closely with engineering managers, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to craft technical vision and strategy.
A background or personal interest in finance, investing, or fintech is a plus!#J-18808-Ljbffr