L6 Staff Engineer

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Title:  L6 Staff Engineer

Contract: Ongoing contract

Location: Remote

Description
About the Position / Current Initiatives: Bridge the gap between vision and reality by transforming complex rail logistics and workflows into high-performing products that meet user needs, enhance efficiency and accelerate our business. Develop software platforms that enable our product and business teams to develop applications that serve our customers through reusable and scalable software services operating with high efficiency.

About the Team Structure + Culture: Empower the workforce with cutting-edge collaboration tools and services. Boost productivity, enhance mobility and ensure reliable systems for finance, human resources, legal operations, and more. Foster a supportive and inclusive environment.

Job Must Haves:

• Minimum 15+ years of software development or related experience
• 15+ years of programming experience within Java
• Experience with distributed systems and use of technologies such as messaging frameworks (i.e. Kafka and RabbitMQ), API gateways, SQL/NoSQL/Graph databases, caching systems, and serverless platforms
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and DevOps practices
• Interest in open-source platform and infrastructure technologies
• Familiarity with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Experience with secure coding practices and platform security principles
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams and communicate with stakeholders
• Experience participating in design reviews, incident retrospectives, or RFC processes
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technical concepts and to adapt to new technologies quickly
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Experience as a mentor, or a tech lead in an engineering team

Job Nice to Haves:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, or related field
• Engineering experience with a public PaaS or cloud provider (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform)
• Experience developing and operating large scale distributed systems in Production
• Experience with serverless runtimes and event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with developer tooling as a builder and/or user
• Interest in sustainable infrastructure and cost/resource awareness
• Experience with single-pane-of-glass management platforms or control planes for distributed systems
• Familiarity with frameworks like React, Angular, Node.js, Spring Boot
• 15+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.