Principal Software Development Engineer(Go/Java)-Remote

Company: Varis
Location: Garland
Posted on: May 12, 2022

Job Description:

This is a 100% fully remote role. You can work remotely from anywhere in the Continental U.S.

About Varis

Varis is a well-funded and fast-growing technology startup that focuses on digital commerce software-as-a-service and procurement, owned by The ODP Corporation (NASDAQ: ODP).
We are innovation-driven, customer-centric, and ready to transform Business-to-Business (B2B) Procurement with insights gleaned from data.
Our culture is focused on bold vision, launching the simplest initial solution to learn, then either failing or scaling fast.

About the Role

We seek teammates who drive value creation, are great problem solvers, have strong interpersonal savvy, and can successfully learn on the fly! Joining us now is a ground-floor opportunity to shape our limitless future.
On our team, you will: see and feel the direct impact of your work; be surrounded by passionate people; learn how to be an entrepreneur; and be at the center of a highly dynamic business model with tremendous individual and collective potential.

As Principal Software Development Engineer, you'll create and innovate multi-disciplinary technical and functional solutions to unprecedented problems and devise solutions for the most complex and highest risk business situations. You're an ideal candidate for this role if you have vast experience in software development and have a track record of helping companies reinvent their core business and drive the execution of their end-to-end technology solutions.

What You'll Do

- Perform as one of the company's highest-level experts in 2-3 disciplines, platforms, technologies, systems, or processes.
- Advise executives on the use of current and future technologies for optimal impact on current and future business strategies and results.
- Serve as an expert-level resource for making strategic investments in applications, databases, technologies, systems, programs, or processes. Act on own initiative and awareness of market conditions and technical innovations to provide solutions to problems before they occur.
- Maintain detailed knowledge of current best practices and emerging trends within the technical architecture and application development arenas. Maintain an awareness and understanding of relevant emerging technologies.
- Creating and expanding relationships with major vendors, suppliers, regulators, or other critical external organizations.
- Understand and be proficient with company procedures for documenting new initiatives with complex business cases and detailed ROI models to gain IT, Business Unit, and Executive Committee agreement and approval to proceed.
- Focus on professional development through our wide array of learning opportunities for continued growth within the company.

What You'll Need

- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years' experience designing, developing, and deploying large-scale systems on multiple platforms, preferably in Java EE and/or Golang.
- Proven experience solving complex problems in a multi-platform systems environment.
- Ability to conceive, design, and create new tools, products, or processes in a deep specialty or as an expert integrator of systems to meet business needs.
- Polished communication, collaboration, presentation, and technical leadership skills.

Preferred Experience

- Kubernetes (on-premises and cloud) and Docker. Work with Kubernetes ingress controllers, Nginx, Traefik, Kong, Envoy is preferred.
- API Gateways and service meshes.
- Building a large family of APIs, circuit breaking, gradual degradation, log aggregations, and monitoring.
- Cloud computing, including basic, compute load balancing, elastic scaling, monitoring, data stores, and security.
- Public clouds such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- On-premises infrastructure - computing, load balancing, and network security.
- Container orchestration, building resilient scalable systems
- Modern user-facing applications in React.js.
- Bash, Ansible and Terraform.
- Java microframeworks - Vert.x, Quarkus, and Micronaut.
- JDK version 8+.
- SQL and NoSQL databases, preferably PostgreSQL, MySQL, Couchbase, MongoDB, DynamoDB
- Implementing solutions with Elasticsearch, Solr, or Vespa.
- Event streaming using Apache Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, etc.
- Multiple CI/CD tools.

Benefits and Perks

- Discounts on Office-Depot/Microsoft/Apple's products and services
- Auto, Home, and Pet Insurance
- Medical / dental / vision, AD&D, and Life Insurance
- Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
- Health Saving Account (HSA)
- Long Term Disability and Short-Term Disability
- 401(k) matching program
- Retirement Savings Plan Rollovers
- Banking Services
- Military Leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Regular pay for Funeral/Memorial Service Observance
- Opportunity for professional growth and career advancement
- 100% permanent remote work in any state of United Status
- Friendly Visa sponsorship for all technical job positions

Varis is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all employment practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, age, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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