Position Overview:

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the Senior Software Engineer at ELMO is required to:

Individually

• Be a solid and trusted team member with a consistent record of independently shipping well-crafted, maintainable software to production. 
• Have a solid domain knowledge of our business and its products. 
• Consistently make conscious and pragmatic trade-offs to ship a product.
• Raise the quality of ELMO’s software by demonstrating cleaner ways of implementing features. 
• Qualify and effectively reduce technical debt.

Team Member

• Be a valued member, proactive supporter of the team and the leadership that consistently delivers high-quality outcomes.
• Be customer-centric, considerate of the product and its intent for end users.
• Be eager to improve the product, the team's environment, and internal processes.

Technical Mentor

• Be known for their technical knowledge and are ready and willing to share their learning and experiences with others so they can be more effective in their roles.
• Actively increasing their direct team's knowledge by mentoring, running internal workshops and sharing useful videos/articles.

Key Responsibilities:

The core responsibilities of the Senior Software Engineer includes but is not limited to: 

• Software Development
  • Design, develop, test, and deploy high-quality software solutions across complex projects.
  • Identify & pragmatically apply better code standards, practices or tooling’s and improve overall application performance.
  • Uses systematic debugging to diagnose cross-service issues.
  • Drive monitoring work across the team.
  • Qualify and effectively reduce technical debt.
• Solution Design & Architecture
  • Consistently design code that is aligned with the overall service architecture.
  • Design solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Solid domain knowledge of our business and products. 
• Security
  • Consistently approaches all engineering work with a security lens.
  • Understand the security standards (e.g., OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK, etc.).
  • Plan and address security vulnerabilities according to severity.
• Teamwork
  • Support teammates to overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete tasks.
  • Effective peer-reviewer, looking to raise the quality of our software by demonstrating cleaner ways of implementing features in line with ELMO Values. 
• Delivery
  • A solid and trusted team member with a consistent record of independently shipping maintainable, well-crafted, automatically tested software to production.
  • Consistently make conscious and pragmatic trade-offs to ship a product.
  • A valued member, proactive supporter of the team and the leadership that consistently delivers high-quality outcomes with minimum fuss.
  • Customer-centric, considerate of the product and its intent for end users.
  • Eager to improve the product, the team's environment and internal processes.
  • Is a technical and prioritisation leader within the team, including taking some ownership of other team members' technical growth and development.
• Technical Mentor
  • Known for your technical knowledge and willing to share your learning and experiences with others so they can be more effective in their roles.
  • Actively increasing your direct team's knowledge by mentoring, running internal workshops and sharing useful videos/articles.
  • Take ownership of other team members' technical growth and development.
  • Ensure compliance with ELMO’s information security privacy policies and procedures.