Staff Engineer, Event-Driven Architecture

COMPANY: Canoe Intelligence
WEBSITE: https://canoeintelligence.com/
TITLE: Staff Engineer, Event-Driven Architecture
LOCATION: New York City (hybrid) or Fully Remote in the United States
SALARY: $180,000 - $200,000 (based on NYC, will be adjusted for geo)
The Role:
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Staff Engineer to transform our event-driven microservices architecture. You'll have a unique opportunity to design and implement foundational architectural components for a large engineering team. As a hands-on leader you will ensure the engineering team can operate with sustainable developer velocity for years to come.
What You'll Do:

• Be an organizational leader in designing, building, and operating an event-driven microservices architecture, leveraging Kafka as the backbone.
• Design and implement foundational architectural components and functionality, empowering other engineers to work in flexible, scalable, and maintainable ways.
• Define clear domain boundaries for each microservice and its domain events, ensuring bounded contexts that lead to autonomous development.
• Work closely with various engineering teams to identify and mitigate risks, remove roadblocks, and ensure continuous progress towards sustainable high developer velocity.
• Manage project timelines, deliverables, and resources to ensure successful completion.
• Build observable systems and demonstrate operational excellence.

What We're Looking For:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in software development, with at least 2 working on event-driven microservices-based architectures.
• Proven experience in a technical leadership role, efficiently delivering business value using strong communication, collaboration, and project management skills,
• Ability to hit the ground running on projects that involve Kafka, Python, Typescript, PHP/Laravel, Postgres, Snowflake, Airflow, Redis, Datadog, Feature Flags, Github Actions, Docker, Terraform, and AWS.
• Willingness to work with and improve code you did not originally write.
• Effective at working with ambiguous or missing information and adapting quickly in a startup-like environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a passion for getting involved in both technical details and high-level strategy, anticipating team needs and solving them ahead of time.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• A curious explorer who keeps up to date with latest technical developments and has a good knowledge of how to build high performance engineering teams.
• You've read all the standard best practice engineering books as well as "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" and "Designing Event-Driven Systems".
• A leader who promotes a culture of curiosity, inclusion, and humility.

What You'll Get:

• Medical, dental, vision benefits
• Flexible PTO
• 401(k)
• Flexible work from home policy
• Home office stipend + wifi reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• Gym reimbursement
• Education assistance
• Parental Leave
• Commuter benefits

Our Values:

• Client First -> Listen, and deliver client-centric solutions
• Be An Owner -> Take initiative, improve situations, drive positive outcomes
• Excellence -> Always set the highest standard for yourself and others
• Win Together -> 1 + 1 = 3

Who We Are:
Canoe is reimagining alternative investment data processes for hundreds of leading institutional investors, capital allocators, asset servicing firms and wealth managers. By combining industry expertise with the most sophisticated data capture technologies, Canoe's technology automates the highly-frustrating, time-consuming, and costly manual workflows related to alternative investment document and data management, extraction and delivery. With Canoe, clients can refocus capital and human resources on business performance and growth, increase efficiency, and gain deeper access to their data. Canoe's AI-driven platform was developed in 2013 for Portage Partners LLC, a private investment firm.
Canoe is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.