SOVRN Creative

SOVRN Creative

Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Boulder, Colorado · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$155k-$185kDetected 14 days ago
PythonJavaBashDistributed SystemsDatabricksAWSTerraformDatadogKafkaComplianceAccessibilityLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoringAdaptability

About the role

  • You'll balance big-picture architectural strategy with hands-on technical leadership, mentoring engineers, influencing standards, and ensuring Sovrn's software systems are secure, performant, and adaptable for the future.
  • You think holistically about user experience, system resilience, and long-term maintainability and you raise the bar for engineering excellence across the organization.

Responsibilities

  • Designing and Architecting Scalable Systems: Lead the design of distributed systems that integrate multiple components and services across Sovrn's product ecosystem.
  • Driving Technical Excellence: Define best practices for system design, testability, documentation, and accessibility to ensure applications are secure, performant, and user-centric.
  • Leveraging AI and Automation: Use advanced development tools and AI to deliver secure, extensible, and efficient solutions that reduce dependencies and technical overhead.
  • Shaping Engineering Standards: Establish and maintain SLOs/SLAs, coding and documentation standards, and architectural guidelines across teams.
  • Mentoring and Influencing: Coach engineers at all levels, building organizational capability in system thinking, collaboration, and architectural decision-making.
  • Aligning Technical Strategy: Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Cloud Engineering to ensure architectural decisions align with Sovrn's business strategy and growth goals.
  • A legacy of mentorship and impact, building technical acumen, shaping team culture, and developing engineers into stronger system thinkers and leaders.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in scalable architecture, with proven experience designing and evolving distributed, multi-service systems.
  • Advanced proficiency in automation and infrastructure, including Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and scripting (Python, Bash, or Go).
  • Strategic systems thinking, with the ability to anticipate future challenges and architect adaptable solutions.

Skills

  • Java, Kafka (Redpanda), AWS, Databricks, Datadog, ONNX.

Compensation

  • The base salary for a Senior position is $155,000 to $185,000 annually, and for a Staff position, it is $170,000 to $200,000 annually.

Benefits

  • In addition to salary, the total compensation package includes bonus and equity.
  • Actual base salary will depend on the candidate's education, experience, skills, and location.

Company info

  • We believe in the freedom and free-flow of information.
  • We believe the Open Web is the largest source of this information.
  • We believe in helping Open Web businesses be and remain Independent.
  • If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in any part of the application or interview process, please contact peopleops@sovrn.com.

Equal opportunity

  • Employer: Sovrn is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, parental or pregnancy status, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations will be made to meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
  • Recruitment Agencies: Sovrn does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or Sovrn employees. Sovrn is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
  • Employer: Sovrn is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, parental or pregnancy status, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
  • Reasonable accommodations will be made to meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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