Who becomes a TopSyntax Engineer:

• You have at least 4 years of industry experience as a software engineer. If you have worked as a senior software engineer, tech lead or architect, you will have even more job opportunities  on TopSyntax.
• You have strong data structures and algorithms concepts.
• You can spend 2-3 hours on our programming tests, skill challenges, and video interviews. These tests were designed by our leadership (ex-Engineers from Macys and WalmartLabs).
• You can adjust work hours to overlap at least 4 hours a day with a company in Silicon Valley or New York.
• You are a fluent English communicator, and you will be able to communicate effectively over daily video calls with engineering managers in the U.S. Software companies.
• You can function effectively and be valuable to U.S. engineering management without too much hand-holding and micromanagement. 
• You don’t need your manager to write detailed JIRA tickets for you. 
• You are capable of discussing your manager’s objectives and proposing a work roadmap and specific tasks to the manager for approval.
• You are an extremely proactive communicator, who understands the challenges of remote work and the need to over-communicate to offset those challenges.
• You are good at feature planning and estimation. You can discuss business priorities with U.S. companies and propose sensible software/business tradeoffs that are in line with their priorities.
• You should be strong in at least one programming language. (Php,Java,Python,JavaScript,C# etc)

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in similar roles 
• Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or similar from a recognized top university  
• Fluency in English 
• Java, JavaScript, or Python 
• PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server,or Oracle DB 
• Ability to work independently and be familiar with delivering outcomes under conditions of uncertainty
• Build efficient, reusable well-designed and high-quality code 
• Test-oriented development mindset 
• Strong User-Experience considerations 
• Understand overall solutions architecture and how development activities fit into this 
• Curious, collaborative, humble and are a Doer

Benefits of Becoming a TopSyntax Engineer:

• TopSyntax salaries are higher than local software engineer salaries in most countries.
• Opportunity to work with ex-WalmartLabs and Macy's engineers.  
• You don’t need a US visa since you’ll be working remotely.
• You’ll be able to join an exceptional community of engineers.  
• TopSyntax also offers mentorship and guidance regarding technologies most valued by US companies and also resources to help you grow fast as a software engineer. Today this is accessible to engineers working locally for Silicon Valley companies, but we want the same to be available to exceptional software engineers.
• TopSyntax help fill a large number of full-time remote roles including full-stack, frontend, backend, mobile, and DevOps.