Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

This is Engineering at Lattice

Lattice’s Engineering team is continuously working to better both our product and our craft. We use a modern, cutting-edge tech stack and love experimenting with new technologies. We strive for maintainable, robust, and performant code. We’re highly collaborative and continuously iterative and work closely with designers and product managers. We prioritize not only great technical architecture but also an amazing product experience.

The Performance team focuses on developing solutions to manage professional growth and feedback. The team is responsible for developing products enabling employees, managers, and admins to participate in regular feedback processes in all directions, calibrations, and professional development plans.

What You Will Do

• You’ll build software to help companies build cultures in which their employees thrive.
• You’ll work with other engineers to build and own products across a modern tech stack. Our current stack includes React, Relay Modern, Typescript, GraphQL, Node, and PostgreSQL. We rely on AWS to host our infrastructure.
• Identifying & addressing performance bottlenecks, implementing strategies to increase reliability and redundancy, and championing good software engineering practices for the teams.
• You’ll independently lead the execution of complex projects requiring cross-functional collaboration with product managers and designers.
• You’ll provide substantial mentorship to less experienced colleagues, helping to refine their technical craft and expand their knowledge.
• You’ll contribute to our engineering practices, identifying and evangelizing improvements to improve our team output.
• This platform work will support multiple product eng teams; good communication and coordination skills for internal and external team interactions are important.
• You’ll work on developing new service and platform features to support future product innovations, participating in all stages from requirements definition through launching and maintaining.

What You Will Bring to the Table

You have 7+ years of professional experience writing and maintaining production-level applications.

• You’ve worked with a modern programming language like JavaScript, Ruby, Python, etc.
• You’ve got good database and data modeling experience. You know how to efficiently model moderately complicated data, write and optimize performant queries in a relational database like PostgreSQL, and are comfortable mentoring junior engineers on best practices around this.
• You know the ins-and-outs of maintaining and scaling an application actively serving customers in production.
• You seek out the root cause when debugging software defects and champion improvements that prevent future issues.

You’re a great communicator and collaborator.

• You write code that your colleagues will also own, understand, and maintain.
• You’re clear and concise in explaining your thought process and in enumerating the tradeoffs made in your work.
• You work well with designers and product managers to develop optimal solutions. 

You enjoy taking an active role in the development process.

• You love mentoring and supporting other software engineers who are newer to the industry.
• You have experience taking the lead in planning and executing the development roadmap for software projects.
• You make the engineering team more effective through the pragmatic application of useful code tools and patterns