Principal Cloud Engineer AWS/Multiple
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💻 Engineering⏰ Full-time🎯 Lead / Principal💰 £95k-130k🇬🇧 Aldgate, UK
21h ago
Feathr·2 months ago
Your Company:
As the Nonprofit Marketing Platform trusted by over 1,300 nonprofits, Feathr is purpose-built to help our customers unlock more results, time, and confidence.
Feathr's software marketing platform equips nonprofits with the tools they need to build purposeful connections with their community and grow impact with confidence.
We're working on building an amazing culture at Feathr, where amazing people (like you) can do their best work. If you're ready to grow and "help the helpers" you've come to the right place.
Compensation Range: $165,000 - $180,000 base, and a bonus potential of up to 12%
Benefits: Fully remote, Health/dental/vision insurance, Company Holidays + Winter Break, Paid vacation + sick time off
Feathr’s SaaS platform is critical to the value we deliver to our clients. Feathr’s Engineers help us grow and maintain the technical components that allow us to meet our diverse customer base's advertising, marketing, and web analytics needs. A Principal Engineer at Feathr has demonstrated interest in and proficiency in web development.
You will work under the direction of the Associate Director of Product Engineering on backend software development projects. Engineers at Feathr own their code from planning to maintenance to retirement - you will work with internal and external stakeholders to develop requirements and design technical solutions, collaborate with your engineering colleagues to implement those solutions, deploy and monitor your changes in production, and address issues as they are identified.
6+ years of experience in software development, with a strong focus on SaaS products.
Expertise in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.
Professional experience owning a process that includes shipping a complicated piece of software to real users
Working with both synchronous and asynchronous environments
Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis, and Python
Experience with Advanced ElasticSearch APIs
Expertise in MongoDB Queries and Aggregations, as well as regular maintenance
Expertise in AWS infrastructure and services (EC2 and EKS at a minimum)
Experience with self-hosted Drone CI/CD
Patience and determination to work through complex technical troubleshooting obstacles.
Demonstrated ability to collaborate and manage relationships with internal and external partners.
Constantly look to hone your craft and share what you learn with your colleagues
Service-oriented team player who is here to achieve success for Feathr, The Product Team, and yourself
Pragmatic and customer-oriented - you are building software to help customers, not for the sake of building software
Comfortable adapting to quickly changing conditions. You might be working on one project but need to context switch to another unexpectedly during a critical outage.
Careful, detail-oriented approach to building software - ask questions first and write code later.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Your code solves immediate problems while building a sustainable system that lasts into the future.
Understand how to ingest and transform event streams from a variety of sources.
Plan and iterate over the product development lifecycle.
Work alongside other Product Team engineers to design and develop features.
Break down complex technical challenges into manageable work components, ensuring clear deliverables.
Receive feedback on your code and features and iterate.
Collaborate with members of other departments to ensure technical solutions meet the company's business interests.
Ensure the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of Feathr’s data and operations.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Starting salary for this position is $165,000- $180,000 annually depending on experience and credentials, with the potential to earn an additional 12% of base salary.
This position is Remote to candidates located in Eastern and Central time zones or with the option to work from our headquarters in Gainesville, FL. If you aren’t familiar, Gainesville is a hip, mid-sized city with a highly innovative population and an attainable standard of living.
As a part of our commitment to creating a fair, equitable, and positive interview experience for all candidates, we offer full transparency of our interview stages to give applicants an idea of the time and effort involved. Additionally, each interview stage consists of standardized questions and rubrics with a scoring system to ensure a consistent and fair assessment practice of all candidates.
HR Information Screen - The Talent Acquisition Team will invite candidates that move forward to a 20-30 minute virtual interview. This conversation will be focused on relevant work experience, compensation, role overview, and answering any questions the candidate has.
Hiring Manager Interview- 45 minute virtual meeting with to answer role-specific questions and dive deeper into your background and experience.
Work Assignment - Candidates will be given a work assignment prompt to complete a project that is relevant to the work they can expect in the role. You are given ample amount of time to complete this project before turning in.
Panel Interview - 1 hour interview with two to three key members of the team. This interview will dive deeper into the role, technical knowledge, and requirements of the position. You will also utilize this time to review any questions related to your work assignment.
Offer - The Talent Acquisition Team will reach out with the details of the offer to discuss.
Interviewing at Feathr
We've prepared a comprehensive candidate resource that provides valuable insights and tips for interviewing at Feathr. It covers everything from common interview questions to helpful advice on how to make the most of your interview experience with us. Access the resource here.
We encourage all applicants to take advantage of this resource to help prepare for their interviews and gain a deeper understanding of what to expect when applying to join our Flock.
Benefits & Perks for full-time employees
We love our Flock and the work they do! But let’s be honest, life isn’t just about work. So we created a perks and benefits package that aims to help our team grow by including their wellness, families, passions, and personal time.
Fully remote
Full vision, dental, and ~99% health insurance for employees
Sick time off
Vacation time off
Extended Wintr Break
Parental Leave
Wellness Reimbursement Credit
Home Office Stipend
Professional Development Budget
Team hangouts and events
Culture:
Feathr defines culture as the secret sauce that makes our flock members want to come to work everyday and do their best work. Like every company, we have an acronym that conveys the most important aspects of the culture we strive to have.
Practicality: Progress Over Perfection
Ambition: When Feathr wins, We all win
Candor: Better communication, Better results
Trust: Assume the best, Share openly
Service: We exist to fix
This acronym is only as useful as the integrity of the people who reference it and believe in it. Every person at Feathr will face challenges, the most important quality is a commitment to work through those challenges with self-awareness and honesty.
Feathr is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all employees. So, however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, if you think you’d drive value in this position, please apply.