Senior Software Engineer
Mozenda’s Senior Software Engineer is the player-coach of a talented development team hellbent on creating the world’s most powerful web scraping software.
Who you are:
You’re a force multiplier who brings out the best in the people around you.
You’re passionate about creating great technology while addressing client needs. You’re a steady leader and a talented communicator with a gift for organization and project management. You want to be a part of an exciting and growing tech company that you can help build, develop, and scale. You thrive in a team-focused, fun, and collaborative environment, and you’re willing to learn and to lend your knowledge and experience to others.
Qualifications / Skills:
- Master’s degree in an appropriate field of study
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Fluent with functional, imperative and object-oriented languages; knowledge of Java, Scala, or Clojure, or JavaScript would be especially useful
- Strong OOP or Functional Programing and modeling skills
- 4+ years of professional experience in professional web development
- Fluent in JavaScript and PHP
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Experience building complex web systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams and management to collect requirements, identify tasks, provide estimates and meet production deadlines
- Experience with mission-critical, 24×7 systems
- Experience implementing and consuming large scale web services
- Experience with professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Eagerness and willingness to learn new technologies
What you'll do:
- Work closely with the Product team to identify and build user-focused solutions
- Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle
- Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions
- Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code
- Prepare and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming
- Improve operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures
- Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations
- Protect operations by keeping information confidential
- Provide information by collecting, analyzing and summarizing development and service issues
- Accomplish engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed
- Support and mentor your team by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities
- Collaborate with team to brainstorm and create new products
- Grow engineering teams by interviewing, recruiting and hiring
- Stay on the leading edge of development practices
- Understand business needs and know how to create the tools to manage them
Compensation & Benefits:
Compensation: DOE – we value talent!
- Health + Dental Coverage
- Paid Time Off
- Catered lunches
- Fully stocked kitchen
- Flexible hours
- Onsite gym
- Swanky new Silicon Slopes HQ