Senior Software Engineer

**About the Role**:
In this backend focused role, you will work closely with stakeholders from Product, Support and the business. You'll also partner with other engineering teams to provide high-quality, scalable, and innovative solutions to internal and customer problems. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include designing, developing, and delivering new features, as well as unblocking and mentoring your teammates.

This role has both an internal and external focus, your contributions will make a meaningful difference in the day-to-day lives of your peers at Sezzle, enhancing their ability to support our business and customers, and you will have opportunities to take any feedback and iterate.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Help build out a distributed architecture, creating solutions that work within it, maintaining consistency while scaling highly
- Coordinate with internal company stakeholders to design market winning products
- Develop and collect metrics to drive continuous improvement of existing products
- Deliver high quality features which can be tested and adheres to reporting standards
- As needed, lead small development teams to bring a project to market
- Mentor other engineering teammates to help elevate their experience and knowledge

**Minimum Requirements**
- At least 7 years of full-stack software engineering experience
- Experience bringing new ideas and building consensus on the path forward
- Experience with building and serving REST APIs using Go and Java Python or a similar language.
- Experience working in a distributed, cloud-based architecture, with either design patterns like transactional outboxes, or queuing tools like RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka
- BS in Computer Science or similar degree, or equivalent work experience.

**Ideal Skills & Experience (the more the better)**
- Experience with SQL based RDMS through an ORM tool
- Comfortable using observability platforms like Prometheus, or vendor solutions like NewRelic or Datadog to instrument your code for production monitoring and alerting.
- DevOps experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with containerized micro-service architecture deployed with Kubernetes on AWS
- A clear record of getting products to market and prioritizing solutions and improvements based on stakeholder/customer feedback.

**About You**:

- A+ character. We are team-first here at Sezzle.
- A hard-working mentality. It's early and there is still a lot to build.
- An excellent communicator.
- A fun attitude. Life's too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things.
- Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others.

**What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome?**

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.

**Equal Employment Opportunity**: Sezzle Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other legally protected status. Sezzle recognizes and values the importance of diversity and inclusion in enriching the employment experience of its employees and in supporting our mission.

**Compensation**:
For this senior development role, with 8+ years of experience, the compensation range is $4,600 - $7,500 USD per month. This range acknowledges the extensive expertise, leadership capabilities, and significant contributions expected at this level, offering a competitive salary to reflect the value of advanced skills and experience.

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