Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Shibumi is a company that builds a strategic portfolio management platform for large organizations. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead technical initiatives, solve complex problems, and influence the platform's technical direction while improving the engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- Significant areas of the platform from ambiguous problem through design, implementation, deployment, and long-term ownership
- Large initiatives before they reach a sprint by turning broad business goals into technically sound execution plans
- The cross-cutting technical problems that span services, teams, and architectural boundaries
- Raising the engineering bar through design discussions, architecture reviews, mentoring, and thoughtful code review
- Helping the team avoid unnecessary complexity by knowing what not to build
Skills
- Experience influencing technical direction and earning trust without relying on title
- Experience making pragmatic engineering decisions and knowing when simplicity beats elegance
- Experience owning and improving large, mature codebases instead of always starting greenfield
- Experience building production systems in Java. Spring experience is a plus
- Experience working comfortably across backend, frontend, infrastructure, and whatever else the problem requires
- Experience communicating effectively with engineers, product managers, QA, and leadership
- Must be authorized to work in the United States
- Multi-tenant SaaS platform experience
- Event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar messaging systems
- Experience with TypeScript/React or Rust
- Experience designing configurable platforms rather than single-purpose applications
- Bachelor's degree
- Java experience: 1 year
Benefits
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Referral program
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