Principal Engineer

We are looking for a talented Principal Backend Engineer who is excellent at solving problems and has a passion for collaborating with team members. This Principal Backend Engineer will contribute to the core of MixMode, surfacing intuitive experiences inside our platform to create a seamless experience. This individual will be a results-oriented engineer who is comfortable with higher levels of ambiguity. They will own code all the way through to production and verify it’s solving the right problem for the customer. Additionally, they will understand the reasoning behind the key product and design decisions and contribute good solutions to implementation and architecture discussions. They will tackle complex architectural challenges, apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects. This is a remote or in-person position.

What you'll be doing:

• Drive large, complex projects autonomously, from technical design to launch. I.E. Own code from design to deployment, through the implementation and automated testing phases.
• Keep up to date on developments in the technology landscape, and form well thought out opinions as to whether and how MixMode should embrace them.
• Regularly review the MixMode architecture for design and performance improvements.
• Lead code reviews & documentation.
• Determine plan-of-attack on large projects, and be able to break tasks down into small deliverables, while ensuring productivity and quality of other engineers.
• Help to fix bugs and production issues as they arise.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members, leadership, and customers to influence product strategy and direction.
• Lead key initiatives to improve the MixMode platform.
• Provide technical mentorship and regular trainings to other engineers on the team.
• Prototype and Research new technologies as they come out investigating if they would add value to MixMode.

What you'll need to bring (job requirements):

• At least 15 years of experience in an engineering role at a software company.
• An extensive background in back-end engineering, dealing with large request/data volume, API design and implementation, automated testing, and deployment and monitoring of features.
• Experience with and proven ability to technically lead a product initiative from design to production.
• Experience with and proven ability to guide scaling a platform across distributed services.
• Able to learn and understand new technologies quickly.
• Java/Scala subject matter expertise. You’ve used these languages throughout your career and you know them like the back of your hand.
• Strong competency in database query languages like SQL/NoSQL/ElasticSearch, with knowledge on how to optimize performance at scale. Experience with database technologies that deal with large data (think terabytes).
• Extensive Experience working with a major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with Queueing and Distributed log message technologies like Kafka.
• Extensive Experience with Container image technologies including Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with large data ingestion pipelines that may or may not use streaming frameworks like Spark/Flink (but they should have experience with tools like Apache Flink/Spark/Pinot).
• Experience being on-call, using monitoring tools and log aggregators to troubleshoot and resolve production issues.
• Experience with service-mesh technologies like Istio.
• Some Python, GoLang, and/or Node.js experience.
• Experience using GraphQL, and knowing when to use it.
• Experience with Machine Learning technologies and theories (K-means, Neural Nets, generative models).
• Strong oral & written communication skills.
• Able to rapidly learn (at depth), prototype, and test new technologies and assess their fit in our ecosystem.

Compensation and benefits are competitive based on industry standards. Benefits for full-time team members include:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Basic Life and AD&D
• Voluntary Life
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid Holidays
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)

Please note that MixMode does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the event of a recruiter or agency submitting a resume or candidate without a signed agreement being in place, we explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire such candidates without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of MixMode.