Senior Cloud Native Developer

Rackspace is a full spectrum integrator, our Rackers assist hundreds of companies to realize the value, efficiency, and productivity of the cloud. We take customers on their journey to enable, operate, and innovate using cloud technologies – from migration strategy to operational excellence and immersive transformation.

If you like a challenge, you’ll love it here, because we’re solving complex business problems every day, building, and promoting great technology solutions that impact our customers’ success. The best part is, we’re committed to you and your growth, both professionally and personally. Racker Life

PositionOverview

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will be part of a team designing, automating, and deploying cloud native applications on behalf of our customers. You'll use your deep experience applying cloud architecture techniques in virtually every industry. Every week is different and the problems you will be challenged to solve are constantly evolving. You’ll develop front and backend solutions using cloud native best practices in multiple stacks to help our customers embracing the cloud. 

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with other professionals and teams to deliver new features, enhancements, platform improvements and bug fixes. Create well-designed, documented, and tested software features that meet customer requirements. Identify and address product bugs, deficiencies, and performance bottlenecks.  Participate in an agile delivery team, helping to ensure the technical quality of the features delivered across the team, including documentation, testing strategies, and code.  Deploy, monitor and operate large scale production distributed systems. Recommend alternative approaches to solving complex problems and use new technology to achieve goals. Help determine technical feasibility and solutions for business requirements.  Remain up to date on emerging technologies and architecture and propose ways to use them in current and upcoming projects.  Leverage technical knowledge to cut scope while maintaining or achieving the overall goals of the product.  Leverage technical knowledge to improve the quality and efficiency of product applications and tools.  Willingness to travel to client locations and deliver professional services. 

Basic Qualifications

10+ yrs. experience developing full stack applications with strong frontend development. Experience developing cloud-native applications in GCP, AWS, or Azure. Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. Strong experience in all steps of application development (planning, design, development, testing, deployment). Strong understanding of bigger architecture, data flows and how to debug functional issues. Proven experience in troubleshooting cloud-native applications (frontend and backend). Deep technical knowledge of responsive design with React, Node.js and Express.js . Deep technical knowledge of web application development (HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript and object-oriented JavaScript). Experience required with at least one other programming language such as Java, Python, Go, C#, Ruby, Scala. Experience with Redux, Redux Toolkit, Typescript and React Testing (Jest and Cypress). Experience building applications using containers and Kubernetes. Experience developing within distributed systems or a microservice based architecture.  Experience working directly with customers, partners, or third-party developers. Experience with Agile development methodologies.  Experience with Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). Experience working in Unix/Linux environments.

For applicants working in California, Colorado, Washington, or New York City, we are excited to share the base salary ranges for this position exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonus. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions.

The anticipated starting pay range of California, Washington state and New York City applicants for this role is $112,600 - $150,130.The anticipated starting pay range of Colorado applicants for this role is $103,500 - $137,100.

Unless already included in the posted pay range and based on eligibility, the role may include variable compensation in the form of bonus commissions, or other discretionary payments. The discretionary payments are based on company and/or individual performance and may change at any time. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location.

About Rackspace Technology

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.

More on Rackspace Technology

Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Key Skills

• Backend
• Python
• TypeScript
• Ruby
• C#