Senior Software Engineer

GenAI Tooling and Workflow
- Passion for AI-Driven Optimization: Not just using AI tools because they're available, but actively seeking out ways to leverage GenAI to enhance your workflow and the overall output of your team.
- Proven Success with AI Integration: Demonstrated ability to successfully integrate AI tools and techniques into your work, resulting in measurable improvements in efficiency or quality.
- Ability to Identify AI Opportunities: Can proactively identify areas where GenAI can be applied to improve processes, solve problems, or innovate.

**Requirements**:
All engineers at Red Airship are expected to:

- Meet programming and quality standards by following production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards.
- Hone your skills, and keep yourself updated by researching and trying out new technologies and software products; participate in educational opportunities; read professional publications; maintain personal networks; participate in professional organizations.
- Work closely with designers and other engineers in cross-functional teams.
- Mentor and guide your team members.
- Produce software design documents for the features you are working on, and review the same from your peers
- Run experiments to identify new processes or improve existing processes in your team or department.
- Work closely with direct managers to identify your strengths and design your own career growth plan.
- Have fun while learning

A typical week at Red Airship in this role may look like this:

- Picking up new libraries and frameworks
- Implement unit and e2e tests using tools like Playwright and MirageJS
- Review UI/UX designs from design team, discuss about feasibility, and make recommendations
- Implement cross-browser compatible responsive designs
- Implement component libraries for use within or outside your team
- Making technical decisions, researching best practices and technology required for a project, comparing advantages and disadvantages of various technologies either custom-built or off-the-shelf.
- Leading architecture design and solutioning activities.
- Working with the DevOps team to define the CI/CD pipeline.
- Working with backend engineers in API design.
- Adhering to security and accessibility guidelines
- Participating in the planning and scoping of software development projects with the business development team
- Driving enablement and training of new team members
- Supporting individual development of other developers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities.
- Conducting regular code reviews and guiding junior developers to adhere to appropriate standards.

As a senior position, you are also expected to take part in defining your own role and responsibilities.

**Required skills and experience**:
Excellent technical skills and industry experience are a must, as you’ll be representing Red Airship working with some of the best companies and sharpest minds. We don’t expect you to be expert in our entire tech stack, but we believe the best people can transfer their skills and experience to the language or framework where required.

Soft
- Exceptional interpersonal communications capabilities demonstrated through a history of successful software development teams / projects.
- Good presentation skills, effective communication internally and externally.
- Comfortable talking to clients and end users, and advising on hard decisions.
- High level of self-motivation and maturity.
- Strong desire to tackle hard technical problems and proven ability to do so with little or no direct daily supervision.
- Ability to lead and mentor team members
- Encouraging teamwork and collaboration within the team
- Identifying and addressing skill gaps in team members
- Providing feedback and coaching to improve performance
- Bachelor’s level degree in Computer Science, engineering, mathematics, or another related field. In the absence of which, at least 4 years of working experience in related fields.

Technical
- Fundamentals- Familiar with Linux environments and command-line interface
- Familiar with git, popular git workflows, PR/MR workflows.
- HTML5, Typescript, CSS preprocessors, NodeJS, SQL
- Web development- Familiar with the components making up the internet and how they work together
- Understands web security and best practices
- Familiar with Browser compatibility concerns
- Familiar with Accessibility concerns
- Software engineering- Experience with Agile mindset, SCRUM methodology, and TDD.
- Knows when, why, and how to accept technical debt.
- Able to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space, time, and elegance.
- Familiar with UML diagramming especially Sequence diagrams.
- Familiar with 2 or more popular backend frameworks (we use Nest, Echo, Drupal) and 2 or more ORM libraries (we use TypeOrm for typescript, ent for go)
- Familiar with different caching approaches at different layers of the system, and other performance-relate