Software Engineer - SRE
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Job description
- Apply SRE principles to improve system uptime, reduce manual toil, and enhance performance.
- Contribute to rapid experimentation to accelerate growth and adoption.
- Deliver updates with minimal review while ensuring quality and reliability.
- Write code that is clean, maintainable, and easy for others to extend.
- Plan and deliver key features and enhancements.
- Lead integrations with major partners (payments, credit reporting, real estate, insurance, and home services).
- Contribute to our vision of making renting easy for landlords, renters, and everyone involved.
- Develop monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling for serverless Node.js/Firebase systems.
- Design systems with resilience, scalability, and fault tolerance in mind.
- Collaborate on incident response processes, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements.
Requirements
We are looking for a driven Senior Software Engineer with experience in Node.js, React.js, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles. You will play a key role in accelerating our serverless development in Node.js using Firebase Functions on Google Cloud, as well as the web app in React.js with Firebase Realtime Database. Qualified candidates will have strong expertise in Node.js + React.js and experience applying SRE best practices to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance in production systems., * 10+ years (preferred) of software development experience in JavaScript, with time in a senior-level role in a fast-paced startup environment.
- 8+ years of experience in Node.js and React.js, particularly in serverless environments (Cloud Functions, AWS Lambda, etc.).
- 5+ years of experience working with SRE or DevOps practices (monitoring, error budgets, observability, automated deployments, performance tuning)
- Experience building reliable and scalable cloud-based applications with strong operational awareness
- 5+ years of experience working with data architecture and design in NoSQL environments such as Firebase Realtime Database.
- Proven ability to deliver features quickly without sacrificing quality.
- 5+ years of experience writing clean, well-documented code and performing code reviews.
- Ability to navigate a large codebase and make safe, efficient updates.
- Proactive learner who adopts new tools and techniques to improve team performance.
- Hands-on experience implementing logging/metrics/tracing systems (e.g., Stackdriver, Cloud Monitoring, Datadog, or similar)
Preferred Skills:
- Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Experience in PropTech, FinTech, and/or payment processing
- Hands-on experience with Firebase (Cloud Functions, Realtime Database)
- Experience working with Nearshore/Offshore Teams, usage of AI tools in previous roles