Akoya · 23 hours ago
Principal Software Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $180K/yr
10+ years expAkoya is seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer who will focus on creating high-quality product UX and API designs. The role involves writing optimized code, leading technical projects, and mentoring team members.
FinanceFinTechFinancial ServicesSecurity
Responsibilities
Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code optimized for performance and scalability to handle high-volume traffic
Scope and lead medium to large technical projects that align with Akoya's broad strategic initiatives
Monitor and debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define API requirements and deliver high-quality features
Grow the team via mentorship and leadership, reviewing technical documents and code changes
Qualification
Required
10+ years of professional hands-on experience designing and developing large-scale infrastructure or distributed systems. Demonstrated experience with Golang is required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Strong software engineering skills and a passion building scalable and performant systems
Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome
Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems internals (e.g. filesystems, system calls), and with networking and cloud systems
Preferred
Experience with container and serverless architectures (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
Development and/or Operations experience with a production AWS environment
Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
Experience with message queues and event driven architectures (e.g., ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ)
Knowledge of observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
Experience with AWS services (DynamoDB, ElasticacheEC2, SQS, SNS, etc..)
Company
Akoya
Akoya transforms the way people share their data by making it more secure, private, reliable, and transparent.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknown2020-01-01Seed
Leadership Team
Paul LaRusso
Chief Executive Officer
Greg Chan
Chief Technology Officer
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