Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for an experienced, feature-oriented Senior Software Engineer to join the Abacus business unit, which is a fast-growing team in New York City. Reporting to the Software Engineering Manager, this position will play a key role in designing and implementing our expense management solution. At Abacus, we’re reimagining the way businesses move money, starting with the first real-time employee expense system. Making expense reports obsolete is only the beginning - join a team that is leading the charge in how businesses manage their cash flow.

What you'll do

• Develop sophisticated software without supervision

• Fix complex bugs and demonstrate advanced debugging skills

• Take personal responsibility for quality and maintainability of the product and actively identify areas of improvement

• Perform advanced refactoring

• Influence team decisions

• Onboard and mentor less experienced team members

• Make complex contributions to technical documentation/knowledge base and team/engineering presentations

• Produce quality API documentation and ensure practices are maintained

• Identify risks which could impact team performance

• Write technical stories that will improve product quality/reduce technical debt

• Provide updates on estimations

• Identify cross-team dependencies and raise them up appropriately to be addressed

• Challenge assumptions from product owners and propose viable alternatives

• Translate business requirements into articulate, and well-formed user stories

• Understand more advanced system-wide workflows

• Production Support

• Advanced debugging for system-wide problems

• Triage and solve most production issues

• Advanced contributions to the build, CI and CD systems

• Establish monitoring and alert framework

• Identify infrastructure and deployment requirements

• Learn and apply secure software development practices, review code for vulnerabilities and raise awareness of secure programming practices

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent years’ experience

• 6+ years of software development experience, preferably with Project Lead experience.

• Experience working in OS X and Linux environments

• Experience with Node/Express, AWS, MySQL, ReactJS/Redux, AngularJs, Golang, Objective-C, Java, and Android SDK

• Strong understanding of an agile application development lifecycle (e.g. continuous integration, automated testing, scrum)

• Experience working with source control (e.g. git, SVN, Mercurial)

• Proven experience in TDD programming

• Experience with Jenkins for CI and CD systems

• Understanding of secure application programming practices or vulnerabilities

• Strong understanding and practical experience with common design patterns

• Ability to solve business problems through creative and forward-looking solutions

• Experience working in a scrum and DevOps environment

• Ability to write clear, concise documentation

• Experience designing and building JSON or REST services and APIs is preferred

• Experience working with 3rd party APIs, workflow and integration architectures is preferred

• Experience working with AWS toolkits and APIs (SQS, S3, Dynamo, Aurora) is highly preferred

• Experience with large-scale or distributed web applications is highly preferred

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