Staff Software Developer

ApplyBoard simplifies the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process by connecting international students, recruitment partners, and educational institutions on one intuitive and personalized platform. ApplyBoard is a mission-driven, hyper-growth organization. It has been attracting dedicated individuals for more than eight years who are inspired every day to break down barriers to international education and take their careers to new heights at a company that will invest in their career growth. are our compass in our mission to Educate the World and the foundation of our unique company culture. As an organization built on a foundation of diversity, it’s important that our team members are representative of the students from more than 140 countries that we support.

The Role :

We are looking for an experienced and creative Staff Software Engineer to join our growing Engineering Team and take our company and platform to the next level! The Staff Software Engineer will join our growing Engineering Team in order to lead, architect, design and develop frontend and backend services to be used by our clients and partners running in AWS.

This role will have great communication skills to lead and mentor junior engineers and to work in close collaboration with Product Manager, DevOps and business stakeholders to provide application solutions. They will evaluate the product owner's backlog of requirements to design and develop business solutions using Agile methodology. This role requires knowledge and experience in architecting solutions for modern applications in AWS cloud and API best practices to participate in the selection of the most appropriate design, process and method to meet the enterprise and business needs.

What you’ll be doing every day :

Leading a team of software engineers

Design, architecture, implement (develop quality code), code review, build and deploy code

Mentoring junior software engineers

Planning, and converting high level requirements to action items

Provide constructive feedback for the team and as a leader build new leaders

Design, Build support new applications from scratch to production

Support, fix and update existing applications to improve efficiency

Design, develop, deploy AWS pipeline for CICD process utilizing cloud formation, CDK, terraform

What you bring to the table :

Have a strong technical foundation, and you are an expert with modern product development tools and methodologies You know how to ship and iterate

Ability to balance quality and speed while bringing new features and products to market

You can influence and win over others by laying out the pros and cons of different options and the reasoning which supports your decisions

Ability to maintain an open-mind and foster a collaborative atmosphere that makes people eager to work with you

Fluent in one or more of the popular software development languages such as (Python, Nodejs, Golang) but eager to learn new languages

Proficiency in Cloud technologies specifically AWS Serverless tech stack including : API-Gateway, AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS, Fargate, etc.

Have developed serverless applications and built CICD pipeline using either CDK, Serverless, Cloudformation or Terraform.

Ability to work in an agile environment using agile methodology

Ability to lead, plan, prioritize, and communicate

Ability to make the best design decisions Competency in Data Structure and Algorithm

Ability to lead under the concepts of Test / Behaviour Driven Development and implement high-quality code according to the requirements

Ability to design, build, test, deploy server-side Restful APIs running in the cloud as well as modern single page front-end applications.

Have used different datastore / DB technologies including RDS, ElasticSearch, MongoDB and DynamoDB

Have a great sense of ownership, and grow in the organization.

Ideally, you might also have :

Having a great written and verbal communication skills with different stakeholders from customers to PM and different teams in the organization

Bachelor degree or above in computer science or equivalent

Fluency in Object-Oriented Design and software design patterns : understanding common design patterns, data structures, and algorithms

Be familiar with front-end development such as React-native, React-Js or NextJs as well as having experience writing RESTful API endpoints

Have a good understanding of relational and NoSQL databases

Experience developing production-level scripting languages, CDK, ci-cd pipeline, Jenkins