Senior Software Engineer
ActiveCampaign
Software Engineering
Heredia Province, Heredia, Costa Rica
Posted on Oct 19, 2024
At ActiveCampaign, Software Engineers work as part of a cross-functional product team in the design, implementation and maintenance of ActiveCampaign’s software product. In this role, you will collaborate with the team to perform full-stack engineering, design and build new features and capabilities, and solve technical problems. In this role, you will join the Partner Platform Team that builds and maintains our partner dashboards and APIs that empower hundreds of partners to manage thousands of customers’ accounts within the ActiveCampaign software.
What your day could consist of:
- Independently produce high quality, tested code according to modern coding standards, best practices and architectural technical vision.
- Deliver complex and large features working with cross-functional teams including UX, Product Team, ARG and more.
- Build maintainable, scaleable and comprehensive systems.
- Participate in detailed code reviews, providing helpful and specific feedback to your teammates and advocating for improved standards.
- Author and execute feature-level or project-level test plans.
- Capably troubleshoot and debug large-scale systems (user base of 150K+) and legacy systems.
- Create observability tooling including alerts and dashboards to measure and optimize production systems.
- Support legacy & modern services and applications in the public cloud and deploy them through CI/CD practices.
- Execute, monitor and validate production changes.
- Produce documentation for help guides, code comments, service playbooks and, at times, technical designs.
- Provide oversight, direction and mentorship to teammates.
Technical environment:
- Object-oriented languages including: PHP, Python or Java.
- Front-end languages including: JavaScript, React, JQuery, Typescript, CSS or HTML.
- Data stores including: MySQL DB, DynamoDB, Redis or DocumentDB.
- Develop SaaS systems using REST APIs, micro-services on Kubernetes and integrations with 3rd party software.
- Frameworks including: Slim, Symfony, GraphQL or FastAPI.
- Tooling including: Gitlab, Vault, Grafana, Jira, PHPStorm, VSCode or Pycharm.
- Other services including: Kafka, AWS services or Keycloak
What is needed:
- 6+ years of software engineering experience.
- Technical degree or related experience in a software engineering role.
- Proficient working ability in 4-5 of the languages and technologies listed in the Technical environment section.
- Interest and experience in mentoring junior engineers.
- Experience creating test plans, writing automated test suites or implementing an automated test framework.
- Proficiency on a given technology, domain or system, to the point of independent delivery.
- Experience working in an Agile development environment.
- Ability to participate in the team’s on-call rotation as a service owner.
- Knowledge of system design principles such as OOP, DDD or SOLID.
- Experience using various auth services or formats such as OAuth, JWT, etc
For this position, a Background check is required by ActiveCampaign, therefore, by submitting your information for this position you agree to approve if required the background check.