Senior Platform Engineer, Developer Experience

Job Description

• Design, develop and implement systems, processes, and tools to improve the experience and efficiency of the engineering team’s development process. (Developers environment, testing environment, deployment pipeline) • Collaborate with teammates on Platform, as well as PMs and peers from feature teams, to understand and prioritize solutions for practical problems facing Alma engineers. • Work to maintain, simplify and reinvent the systems underlying the application platform, such as our developer environment, observability tooling (event tracking, error handling, and application performance management), testing frameworks (unit tests, integration test, e2e), and deploy pipelines (encompasses build, test, and release phases of the SDLC). • Work towards maintaining and improving site reliability as our application scales • Continually research current and emerging technologies, proposing changes where most impactful. • Provide high-quality documentation and training to set engineers up for success. • Ensure applications and services meet Alma's standards for software, including performance, scalability, and security.

Qualifications

• You have 4+ years of experience working with web technologies, frameworks, and AWS related technologies. • You have extensive experience with web technologies. We are language agnostic in our interviews but require experience with one or more common web frameworks. • You have experience maintaining, simplifying, and reinventing the systems underlying the applications platform, such as job queues, caching layers, error handling, monitoring, and alerting. • You have worked with scaling challenges in previous roles and have implemented best practices around scaling. • You have a strong testing philosophy, with abundant experience in writing different types of tests. • You’re a systems thinker, concerned not only with individual component parts but with how those parts work together holistically. • You’re pragmatic, recognizing that, while there are multiple approaches to solving a problem, it is important to weigh practicality over theory when decision-making. • You are a strong communicator with engineers as well as non-technical stakeholders. • You have a proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

Benefits

• We’re a remote-first company • Health insurance plans through Cigna (medical and dental) and MetLife (vision), including FSA and HSA plans • 401K plan (Roth and traditional) • Monthly therapy and wellness stipends • Monthly co-working space membership stipend • Monthly work-from-home stipend • Financial wellness benefits through Northstar • Pet discount program through United Pet Care • Financial perks and rewards through BenefitHub • EAP access through Cigna • One-time home office stipend to set up your home office • Comprehensive parental leave plans • 11 paid holidays, 1 Alma Mental Health Day, and 1 Alma Volunteering Day • Flexible PTO