Job description
At Evolve we’re a hardworking team serious about hospitality. Our teams work every day to make vacation rental easy for everyone — from our owners who trust Evolve to build their business to our guests who rest easy with every stay to our Evolvers who make this difference a reality. Our values anchor our daily decisions and interactions with our customers, communities, and each other. Join our inclusive culture in one of the most rapidly-growing segments in travel. Find your home at Evolve.
Why this role
Evolve is looking for an AWS Principal Engineer to play a central role in guiding technology decisions and direction as they relate to the AWS Platform, integration patterns and practices. As we build out a world-class cloud architecture, we are looking for an individual contributor who has proven experience architecting, collaborating with other technical architects/leads, and advising technical team members on complex technical ecosystems. In this role, you’ll contribute at the highest individual technical level, and will play an active role in helping us evaluate emerging technologies, while also enabling high performance of existing architectures - all with an eye to a scalable business future. This role is key to helping us define and implement our next generation technologies.
What you’ll do
- Collaborate with architects and engineering managers to craft designs and solutions to meet the needs of our internal and external integrations and greater product organization
- Proactively identify opportunities for reuse or generalization of features and/or services to reduce duplication of work
- Provide domain leadership and mentorship to others by teaching, providing examples and pairing with other team members
- Help team members make informed decisions in alignment with technology strategy and recognized best practices
- Provides a technical point of escalation, guide conversations and remove blockers for team members experiencing technical challenges
- Collaborate and execute 6-12 month technology roadmap within assigned domain area
- Architect solutions for problems early in their lifecycle, or that are not fully defined
- Collaborate across engineering and product teams to iterate and improve upon Application Lifecycle and Software Development Lifecycle processes
- Set coding standards, write white papers, and provide documentation to all key stakeholders
What makes you a great fit
- 8+ years as a software engineer, including Technical Lead experience
- 5+ years of demonstrable, professional Cloud Infrastructure experience in AWS
- Experience with OpenAPI Specification and API Sandbox, node api development, TypeScript, AWS serverless architecture
- Any AWS Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
- Experience in designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to manage AWS using Terraform
- Experience collaborating and mentoring on solution design practices
- Experience mentoring and growing other engineers
- Experience with high volume transactional APIs
- Experience with data streaming technologies (Kafka, Cassandra, etc.).
- Experience with event driven architecture (SQS, EventBridge, Lambda, etc.)
- Experience with containerization platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
Location
Evolve has a flexible working environment so teammates can work remotely anywhere in the state of Colorado, in our beautiful downtown Denver office, remotely or a hybrid of both! As we grow, we are working towards opening remote opportunities across the entire U.S. We currently are able to hire across the U.S except in the following locations: California, District of Columbia, Hawaii, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania.
Compensation
For this role our salary range is $157,000 to $181,000, depending on relevant experience. This role will also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on both company and individual performance.
Additional compensation details:
Equity: 75% of salary equivalent RSUs
Variable comp: 15% of salary target
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How we reward Evolvers
Evolvers have access to highly competitive benefits and rewards that support their whole well-being so they can focus on bringing their best selves to work.
Financial
- Industry competitive pay, including equity in the company for all Evolvers
- 401(k) with a 4% match that vests immediately
Family
- 6 weeks of paid parental leave for birth and non-birth parents
- Infertility coverage
- Child care discounts and locator support
- Pet insurance to cover your furry children
Well-being
- Comprehensive health plans that include a 100% employer paid option for you and your family
- 100% employer-paid dental and vision for you and your family
- 8 free mental health visits
Unplug and Explore
- Take some time away from work with generous PTO, sick, holidays, and a personal holiday to celebrate what’s more important to YOU
- Annual Evolve travel credit after 1 year
- Discounts to stay at Evolve properties
Learn Every Day
- World class onboarding programs
- Learning and development opportunities
About Us: Still curious about who we are and what we do? Read more about our business and our culture at evolve.com.
EEO
At Evolve, we are committed to diversity and inclusion. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified candidates will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military service or veteran status, physical or mental disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. Evolve participates in e-Verify for all positions.
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation at any point in the hiring process, please let your recruiter know.
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