Principal Software Developer, Web Applications
Pasadena, CA

Job Description

Spokeo is a people search engine that both enlightens and empowers our customers. With over 12 billion records and 18 million visitors per month, we reconnect friends, reunite families, prevent fraud, and more. Every day our nimble team takes on enormous challenges in data science that push the limits of the cloud and search architecture.

As a Principal Software Developer, Web Applications, you will join a cross-functional scrum team that values achieving goals as well as continuous product and team improvements. You will use Ruby on Rails, Node, React, HTML, CSS, Javascript, and SQL to produce delightful user experiences backed by scalable and performant code. Expect your code and architecture to be constructively challenged, along with (if desired) your basketball, badminton, tennis, pool, ping pong, and board game skills!

Responsibilities:

* Design and develop robust full-stack solutions
* Work in cross-functional scrum team to achieve regular sprint goals
* Mentor and review code of more junior team members
* Embrace software development best practices such as TDD, documentation, design patterns, secure coding, and algorithmic optimization



Requirements:

* Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
* 5+ years of web application development experience
* 2+ years using SQL and NoSQL technologies
* Strong foundation in object-oriented programming, algorithms, and data structures
* Experience implementing and troubleshooting high-usage, high-throughput systems
* Experience optimizing web site performance on both the client and server side
* Experience developing with cloud services such as AWS a plus
* Experience with services, microservices, and serverless environments a plus
* Knowledge of agile methodology and Scrum framework a plus

Recruiters or staffing agencies: Spokeo is not obligated to compensate any external recruiter or search firm who presents a candidate or their resume or profile to a Spokeo employee without 1) a current, fully-executed agreement on file and 2) being assigned to the open position (as a search) via our applicant tracking solution.