Senior Software Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:Kforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco, CA.About the roleAs a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a vital role in developing new features & products and helping to maintain and update our enterprise products. Working collaboratively with other talented engineers as an empathetic system thinker you will continue to evolve our platform.Our software stack leans heavily on JSON, HTML5 and JavaScript. We extensively use Backbone & React in the frontend, connected to a Python/Django backend, with MySQL and Mongo for persistence. Our hybrid iOS and Android apps are also fully written with HTML and JavaScript to round out our end-to-end JSON based stack.The Company Core Platform teams own the full-stack web application that powers our customer experience across web and mobile devices. Everything from APIs to storage indexes to IE quirks, unit tests to integration tests, and greenfield features to spelunking in legacy code.You will be building new customer-facing functionality and continuing to improve the stability and scalability of the company.What you will do as a Senior Software Engineer: Using our entire technology stack and to develop new features and applications for the company platform, including web and mobile UI's, commenting and messaging, webhooks and APIs, as well as expand capabilities in our mobile applications Contribute to and influence design and development decisions Work in an agile environment, quickly and incrementally delivering value to our customers using tools from the SCRUM toolbox and using tight feedback loops with customers, product, and quality Maximize our velocity and minimize risk by using TDD/CI and other DevOps best practices Use Jira, Slack, and Zoom, to communicate with your team and leadershipREQUIREMENTS: 5+ years of developing complex software for the web in multiple languages with multiple components/services Specific experience with their tech (React, Django, JavaScript, Python, NoSQL, Mobile Development, AWS) Great communicator and outstanding team player; Bias towards over-communicating and asking questions Desire to be part of a team, be a part of culture and contribute, and seeks best outcome for the team rather than being right Curious and intentional about self-development CS/CIS/Systems Mentality Adoption of CI, DevOps principles and a focus on quality A deep understanding about request life cycles, system architecture, and user behavior Strong understanding of software design fundamentals and algorithms Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and associated tools & principles MySQL/Postgres/RDBMS experience (Just using ORM's doesn't count) Ability to design and implement the right technical solution for the right problem at the right time (i.e., you don't over-engineer, but you do thoroughly consider the constraints) Someone fun, interesting, and likes to build and hack; Not just software Experience with mentoring and leveling up people around youNice To Haves: Experience working remotely Experience with DevOps Experience working with hardware (mobile devices, embedded hardware) Expertise in and experience developing enterprise products, and web products at scale Experience with distributed systems, complex user interfaces or other challenging engineering problems Open source contributionsKforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.