Staff Engineer Colombia

We are looking for a Staff Engineer who deliver high-quality and impactful products to the team. The Staff Engineer is responsible for ensuring the technical health and architecture of a designated product area, providing leadership, and overseeing the execution of strategies defined by Principal Engineers.

What You Will Do:

• Your challenge will be to architect and have technical ownership on the website components, including enhancing modules and greenfield projects, support team members with technical challenges while following best practice methods, contribute ideas and experience to new development solutions.
• Our chosen stack is React + TypeScript with each product team producing self-contained microfrontends. We are also working with or have worked with (depending on the area) jQuery/Bootstrap/Backbone/SASS.
• Contribute to the company roadmap and innovation across the company
• Drive cross-team technical roadmap as a cross-team contributor, align engineers to wider technical strategy & goals and guide them in paying off their technical debt
• Leverage your company-wide domain knowledge to facilitate cross-team feature development
• Provide hands-on assistance to engineers in feature development whenever needed
• Drive strategic technological initiatives, helping stakeholders understand their value and need
• Identify sources of waste and come up with plans to improve processes and solutions
• Anticipate technical issues at the product level and drive architectural and design decisions to avoid them
• Monitor performance of engineers on teams, and partner with Engineering Managers on mentoring and growth
• Perform feasibility studies to validate capability and functionality

All About You:

• 6+ years of experience in development with deep knowledge of React, JavaScript and the JavaScript ecosystem. Also, experience with distributed systems, micro-services and highly available and scalable applications
• Experience in developing performant websites
• Analytical and solution-oriented mindset
• Skills to navigate fast in large codebase, great troubleshooting skills
• Eagerness to constantly learn and update your skills, and you like to share knowledge with others
• Great interpersonal, leadership and communication skills
• Excellent understanding of system design and design patterns
• Ability to balance multiple goals across tech/product/strategy/other teams and concerns
• Proven record of driving sweeping improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems
• Ability to quickly expertise large sections of codebases
• Expert on Agile software development, foster culture of feedback
• Casino gaming experience is a plus but not required