Senior Staff Software Engineer, API Platform (Remote) - Python
Senior Staff Software Engineer, API Platform (Remote) - Python
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Job Description
Financial Services Division (FSD) Engineering team is looking for a Senior Staff Engineer that can excel in a non-traditional agile environment leading the way in the Cloud and Big Data analytics ecosystem. Data is the currency in todays world and in this role you will be at the forefront of a digital transformation. We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to provide strategic technical leadership for our real-time API platform which powers mission-critical high-throughput services across our ecosystem. This platform underpins the availability performance and scalability of core customer and partner-facing experiences.
As a Senior Staff Engineer you will report to the Software Development Director and operate as a hands-on technical leader influencing architecture and implementation across multiple teams. Youll guide important decisions mentor engineers and ensure the platform meets demanding Service Level Agreements for latency reliability and throughput.
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Architect and evolve our real-time API platform for scalability low-latency and high availability (45 9s uptime).
- Lead design and implementation of platform-wide projects such as event-driven architecture observability service mesh integration and rate-limiting strategies.
Cross-Team Collaboration
- Partner with engineering managers staff engineers product managers and infrastructure teams to align technical execution with our priorities.
- Define and promote best practices for API design versioning patterns and developer experience.
Execution & Influence
- Bring complex projects from concept to production influencing technical direction across multiple teams.
- Lead technical deep dives reviews and postmortems to improve engineering quality.
Operational Excellence
- Lead the reliability scalability and performance of real-time APIs and associated platform services.
- Work with SREs and DevOps to improve observability incident response and system tuning.
Qualifications :
Qualifications
- 10 years of experience in backend or platform engineering with a focus on distributed systems and API design
- Experience designing and operating real-time low-latency API platforms at scale
- Experience with protocols (HTTP gRPC WebSockets) caching load balancing and API security
- Experience with at least one modern backend language (Go Java Rust or ).
- Knowledge of distributed systems cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and modern backend stacks (e.g. Java Go or Python)
- AWS and Python experience
- Experience with API gateways load balancing caching and observability tools (Kibana Grafana Datadog Prometheus)
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures message queues (Kafka) and stream processing frameworks
- DevOps Knowledge: Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience influencing technical direction beyond your immediate team
Additional Information :
Benefits/Perks:
- Great compensation package and bonus plan
- Core benefits including medical dental vision and matching 401K
- Flexible work environment ability to work remote hybrid or in-office
- Flexible time off including volunteer time off vacation sick and 12-paid holidays
- Explore all our exciting benefits here: uniqueness is that we celebrate yours. Experians culture and people are important differentiators. We take our people agenda very seriously and focus on what matters; DEI work/life balance development authenticity collaboration wellness reward & recognition volunteering... the list goes on. Experians people first approach is award-winning; Worlds Best Workplaces 2024 (Fortune Top 25) Great Place To Work in 24 countries and Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2024 to name a few. Check out Experian Life on social or our Careers Site to understand why.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets. The base pay range for this position is listed above. Within this range individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors such as job-related skills experience and education. You will be also eligible for a variable pay opportunity.
Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all groups protected under applicable federal state and local law including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Innovation is an important part of Experians DNA and practices and our inclusive workforce allows everyone to succeed and bring their whole self to work. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know at the earliest opportunity.
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Remote Work :
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Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
