Staff Software Engineer

Position Overview

Loop is seeking a passionate, driven, and collaborative Staff Software Engineer to join our engineering team. As a key technical leader, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of our platform. You will have the opportunity to establish robust architectural patterns, drive technical excellence across our backend systems, and empower other teams through scalable solutions and self-service capabilities.

About the Engineering Organization

The Engineering Team at Loop is built on the pillars of agility, consistency, and performance. These principles enable the team to reliably deliver value that matters to our customers. This customer intimacy allows our engineering teams to be leaders in our space and bring the best ideas to market.

Our Blended Work Environment

At Loop, we are intentional about our work methods to ensure we do our best work. This is our Blended Working Environment. We operate from our HQ in Columbus, OH, or one of our Hub or Secluded locations, and are distributed throughout the United States, select Canadian provinces, and the United Kingdom. While we are a distributed team across the U.S., Canada (Ontario and British Columbia), and the U.K., we are looking for someone based in or willing to work from our HQ office in Columbus, Ohio for this role.

Our Tech Stack

While we utilize certain core technologies at Loop, the specific tech stack for each team can vary. To provide an idea of potential technologies, examples include:

• PHP/Laravel
• Vue.js
• MySQL
• DynamoDB
• Kubernetes
• AWS
• Serverless

Our hiring process is tech stack agnostic.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain web applications for the Loop product line, driving technical decisions and ensuring high-quality code.
• Solve complex technical issues for merchants, customers, internal stakeholders, and partners, ensuring an exceptional user experience.
• Diagnose system and team issues, proposing solutions and plans to drive healthy change within teams and the product.
• Develop solid automated tests to ensure code quality.
• Maintain a healthy, continuous integration and deployment process.
• Lead, assess, and make recommendations for engineering best practices to ensure effective scaling, contributing to long-term system scalability and stability.
• Define and enforce technical standards, strategies, and vision across the organization, improving the overall quality and consistency of the codebase.
• Elevate the engineering culture at Loop by fostering a supportive and collaborative environment.
• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and proactively seek opportunities for learning and growth.
• Exhibit a strong sense of ownership over your work and its impact.
• Lead initiatives and take action to address problems without waiting for explicit permission, tackling complex technical challenges that may impact multiple teams.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• 2+ years of experience solving complex technical problems at the Staff-level.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience building web applications and APIs.
• Ability to evaluate decisions using context to drive an assessment of trade-offs by considering multiple implementation options.
• Experience leading and participating in effective testing processes on previous teams, with clear opinions on creating a quality-driven development process.
• Experience working in environments with continuous integration and deployment, and contributions to scaling those processes.
• Ability to discuss career experiences related to rapid growth, learning styles, and maximizing gains from projects.
• Ability to provide examples of crucial conversations, such as giving feedback to a leader, customer, or teammate, and instances of making mistakes with humility.
• Ability to share instances where you improved processes or technical solutions.

Employment Type

Full-time

Location Type

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Salary

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