- ideally a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and/or Computer Engineering
- experience with the Go programming language designing & building stream processing applications (ex: Go microservices with Apache Kafka or Kafka alternative)
- experience with both NoSQL and SQL databases including data modeling
- Kubernetes and/or Terraform experience for creating infrastructure
- CI/CD automated testing and deployment experience
- although this is not predominately a web development role, experience with React & Javascript since the admin portal is built with it
- demonstrated history of leading self-directed greenfield development
- experience coordinating work for other developers
- entrepreneurial interest in software product vision (creative to come up with innovative approaches to projects)