As a Staff Software Engineer at Niche, I am responsible for designing and coordinating work on some of our toughest problems.

• Design full stack solutions including web clients, backend services, and databases

• Document and iterate on systems with product teams and stakeholders

• Advocate for best practices concerning security and data management

• Directly contribute to our various codebases as needed

• Foster a healthy work environment for engineers, including opportunities to grow and take on new challenges

• Take on high-value projects that improve DX at Niche, but don’t necessarily fit on any one product team

At Niche, I get to build modern React apps that have millions of visitors every month!

Product Team Tech Lead

• Help Product and Design teams understand engineering implications of new features

• Organize work and define acceptance criteria to help engineers be successful during sprints

• Provide guidance to more junior engineers on the product team

Member of the Front End Architecture Group (four members)

• Make sure applications remain, performant, secure, and maintainable

• Define and disseminate best practices for Niche’s Front End Engineering team

• Review critical changes that require approval from an architect

Principal creator and maintainer of Niche’s internal React component library

• Create library based on MUI

• Work closely with the design team to create components that work well for users and developers alike

• Add automation with GitHub Actions to make it easier for other developers to contribute

• Design solutions that meet customer requirements as outlined by Product Management

• Decompose work into tasks that allow multiple developers to collaborate and progress to be tracked

• Lead a team of 4-8 developers by assigning tasking, providing technical guidance, and reviewing code

• Ensure the team completes tasks on time and manage course corrections so deadlines are met

• Demonstrate progress to interested parties with regular demos as projects progress

• Participate in final decisions about stability, completeness, and releasability of software

• Design and implement complex database structures in PostgreSQL

• Design REST APIs

• Implement APIs with Java services that communicate with SQL and NoSQL databases

• Create web client components with ReactJS to utilize APIs

• Add automated testing

• Find and implement robust solutions to bugs

• Create new services and components to meet requirements established by Project Management

• Make full stack contributions to enterprise scale products