Kohler Ventures ยท 4 days ago
Software Engineer Backend - Kohler Ventures
Kohler Ventures is an independent company wholly owned by Kohler Co., focused on building new digital businesses that empower consumers to lead healthier lives. In this role, you will design scalable backend architecture, collaborate with product teams, and improve code normalization across critical code concerns.
Responsibilities
Work directly with the Head of Software, software engineering team, and product teams
Design could backend architecture that can scale with the business growth of Kohler Ventures
Build the forward-looking vision and lead the effort to understand and drive requirements with hardware/software teams
Coordinate with product development teams to execute rollout/adoption of common libraries, services, and patterns
Measurably improve code normalization across one or more critical code concerns throughout the codebase
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering or related technical discipline from a reputed academic institution. Master's preferred
3+ years of professional software development experience
1+ years of work experience within a backend-focused software engineering team, leveraging cloud Platform to deploy highly reliable and scalable cloud applications
3+ years of development experience using NodeJS, TypeScript
PostgreSQL database
Distributed, scalable backend systems
Broad interest spanning from early prototyping to shipping finished features
Minimal travel both domestic and international as needed
Availability to work outside of standard business hours to be able to collaborate with teams and vendors across multiple time zones
Preferred
AWS experience preferred
Strong technical experience in some of the following areas:
Selection and integration of services in the AWS stack
Kubernetes, ArgoCD (K8S controller)
DevOps processes
AWS CDK
Github Actions
Data streaming architectures and methodologies such as Kafka, Solace
Champion for quality in code, processes, and culture
Positive, can-do attitude with a high degree of ownership and self-motivation to drive change
Entrepreneurial experience in a high growth technology focused company or startup
Exemplary collaboration skills across teams, geographies, and functions
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
401k