Staff Software Engineer

at  Kipsu

Staff Software Engineer
Kipsu is rooted in a simple, yet profound goal: Elevate service professionals to the center of the customer experience, transforming transactional interactions into fully-developed relationships. As one of the Twin Cities’ leading tech companies, Kipsu has cultivated a reputation for strong company culture, providing exemplary service to our customer partners, and investing in the growth of our team members. This role is crucial to the significant, sustainable growth and continued expansion forecasted for Kipsu’s near future.

• Write code that serves as a definitive example for more junior engineers
• Clearly articulate design decisions and make informed decisions about what takes priority
• Propose options and solutions for issues that lack obvious answers or precise definitions
• Be a leader of our code and engineering culture
• Shape the direction of system designs with less experienced engineers
• Have final code review and merge responsibility for a product area, system area, or squad
• Conceive, document, and advocate for consistent use of design patterns and code practices for the whole team
• Develop expertise with inter-system communication and related concepts like queues, fault tolerance, scalability
• Ask thoughtful and relevant questions to analysts and other business stakeholders in order to better solve the problem at hand
• Make improvements to modules/libraries/services and go out of your way to help others learn from it
• Document and share knowledge to enable others to learn, improve, and achieve