Senior Platform Engineer
Description
Company Overview:
Lean Tech is a rapidly expanding organization situated in Medellín, Colombia. We pride
ourselves on possessing one of the most influential networks within software
development and IT services for the entertainment, financial, and logistics sectors. Our
corporate projections offer a multitude of opportunities for professionals to elevate their careers and experience substantial growth. Joining our team means engaging with
expansive engineering teams across Latin America and the United States, contributing
to cutting-edge developments in multiple industries.
We are seeking an associate level Platform Engineer to help deliver on our mission to free consumers from the hassles of everyday travel by making it faster and easier to get where you need to go, so they can focus on the destination.
Focusing on both frontend and backend systems, this role provides a variety of exciting
challenges. Our team spends time working on our main website, AWS and React-based widget, and large integrations with our partners. They will create the best possible experience for our customers and our partners while at the same time helping us advance our codebase to the next level.
Position Title: Platform Engineer
Location: Remote
What you will be doing:
- Attend the morning platform team stand with folks from product management, engineering, design, UX and QA
- Work with those same folks on product development
- Perform technical spiking for a future initiative
- Use Slack to collaborate with your teammates and other folks throughout the organization
- Perform a code review for a recently submitted pull request
Requirements & Qualifications
To excel in this role, you should possess:
- Experience with AWS services such as DynamoDB, SQS, S3, and EB
- Strong Computer Science background, preferably with a degree
- Strong proficiency with React, webpack, and a package manager such as Yarn or Npm
- Experience with TypeScript
- Experience building out scalable APIs and services using both Ruby on Rails and Go
- Highly collaborative in the planning and grooming stages, our engineers help define the products that we build
- Shipping clean, testable code that any developer on any team could quickly get up to speed with
Soft Skills
- Excited about pushing the boundaries of technology
- Excellent problem-solving aptitude and ability to work independently
- Collaborative and team focused mindset to each project
- Strong capability in building scalable systems
- Proactively identify and address performance issues, fix bugs, upgrade dependencies, and maintain an efficient development process
- Strong sense of ownership and dedication to shipping clean, reliable, and maintainable code.
- Skilled at identifying and closing gaps in requirements.
- Capability to establish structure and derive meaning from broad instructions to achieve the final objective
- Confident in asking questions and challenging the necessity of a requirement
- Comfortable with coding and process standards
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies and apply them effectively.
Why you will love Lean Tech:
- Join a powerful tech workforce and help us change the world through technology
- Professional development opportunities with international customers
- Collaborative work environment
- Career path and mentorship programs that will lead to new levels.
Join Lean Tech and contribute to shaping the data landscape within a dynamic and growing organization. Your skills will be honed, and your contributions will play a vital role in our continued success. Lean Tech is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.