Staff Engineer

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the country in which the role is being hired. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.Mark43’s mission is to empower communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all. We build powerful, scalable, and elegant software that sets a new standard for the tools our first responders rely on. Our users are diverse, and we are therefore committed to embracing diversity of thought and experience within our team.    We are seeking experienced and innovative Staff Engineers who have shipped software at an enterprise scale to come and help build the next generation of cloud-based public safety software. As a senior member of the Mark43 team, you’ll take ownership of projects and features from start to finish and be a knowledgeable resource to your teammates. You’ll build robust server-side solutions to our unique problems of scale, security, and reliability. We heavily leverage technologies like Java, MySQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch and enjoy participating in the open source community. As an engineer here, you'll have the freedom to implement your own solutions and have a meaningful impact on our product. We will depend on your strong systems architecture design and technical decision-making in building our products from the ground up. This role offers tremendous career growth opportunities on either a management or Technical Lead track.     What You’ll Do  If you were a part of our team, here are some things you would have done last week:   Worked with a Product Manager to understand requirements for a new feature   Built and deployed features using popular technologies including Java, MySQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch  Improved the architecture of a back-end area of the platform to meet the velocity needs of our growing customer base  Met with a Product Designer to explain technical constraints for a specific feature  Written clear, concise technical documentation to accompany your code  Tested a new technology or took some action to improve our codebase and engineering practices  Nurtured an engineering culture that cares deeply about both code quality and delivering quickly for our customers    What You’ll Need    We are seeking engineers with at least 10 years of professional experience using Java, .NET, or other server-side languages in production. You should be comfortable practicing Agile development and thoroughly testing your own code. Our codebase is large and complex, so we expect you to write clean code and concise documentation to help other engineers understand your contributions. Experience developing features for the cloud, as well as the ability to delve into the front-end stack (JavaScript, ReactJS), is a big plus!    The following types of experience are highly important:  Dee...