Remote Senior Software Engineer

Description:

• VergeSense is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their team, focusing on the core Occupancy Intelligence Platform.
• This role involves working across the software stack, utilizing technologies such as React, Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, and TimescaleDB, hosted on AWS and Azure.
• The position emphasizes analytics around time series data to help customers understand space usage patterns in their real estate portfolios.
• Responsibilities include driving core customer-facing features, managing data transfer, aggregation, and storage, and developing APIs and webhooks for customer interaction with VergeSense data.
• Senior engineers are expected to be technical leaders, strong communicators, passionate mentors, and effective cross-functional operators.
• This is a full-stack individual contributor role with significant impact on both the software engineering team and product teams.
• The role includes responsibility for technical roadmaps and collaboration with various departments to shape the overall product roadmap.
• The Senior Software Engineer will act as a strategic thought partner for organizational leaders to drive business impact through application feature delivery.
• The position reports to the Director of Software: Data and Analytics.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 8+ years of professional experience in designing, building, and shipping software.
• Proven ability to lead projects and effectively communicate with cross-functional teams is essential.
• Expertise in Ruby/Ruby on Rails or similar server-side/web framework technologies is required.
• Extensive experience in building APIs, managing high-volume data, and optimizing large-scale systems is necessary.
• Strong skills in designing, debugging, testing, and writing well-documented code are expected.
• Candidates should be skilled in optimizing background job processing, query performance, and database scalability.
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration in production environments is required.
• Experience with Kafka or similar pub/sub systems for building reliable, distributed architectures is preferred but not mandatory.

Benefits:

• The position offers a high-impact role in an emerging industry leader.
• Competitive compensation and equity are provided.
• Employer-sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance is available, depending on location.
• An open vacation policy allows employees to take time off as needed.
• The company values diversity and encourages individuals from all walks of life to apply, emphasizing kindness, curiosity, discipline, humility, and passion.