Study Startup Associate

Job Description:

  • Create a culture of distributed technical ownership and decision-making
  • Drive the use of Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for significant decisions
  • Ensure decisions consider tradeoffs, risks, and existing architectural precedent
  • Encourage engineers to lead technical design, providing guidance and challenge
  • Drive engineering best practices across design, development, testing, security, observability, performance, and reliability
  • Keep technical debt and architectural risk visible and actively managed
  • Contribute directly to complex, high-risk, or strategically important work
  • Participate in technical design and code reviews
  • Pair with engineers on difficult problems and provide technical leadership during production incidents
  • Directly manage, mentor, and develop engineers
  • Set expectations around quality, ownership, and performance
  • Provide feedback and career development
  • Participate in hiring, onboarding, and performance management
  • Partner with Product to turn priorities into technically sound plans
  • Ensure complex work receives appropriate technical discovery and design before development
  • Surface technical risks, dependencies, and complexity early
  • Balance delivery with technical debt, reliability, and long-term platform health
  • Own the engineering execution and technical outcomes of the team

Requirements:

  • 7+ years experience building and operating production SaaS applications
  • 5+ years experience with Java and Spring Boot
  • Familiarity with Angular and Single Page Application (SPA) development
  • Experience with containers and cloud-native application patterns
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, and modern software delivery
  • Experience working within a DevOps philosophy, including ownership of deployment, observability, reliability, and production support
  • Strong understanding of software architecture, APIs, data modeling, performance, scalability, and security
  • Demonstrated experience leading technical decisions and developing engineers
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States
  • Must indicate whether employment visa sponsorship will be required

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