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Steven Lee

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Austin, Texas, United States

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  • Indeed.com
    Senior Software Engineer
    Indeed.com
    May 2021 - Current (5 years 2 months)
    • Led backend consolidation of employer screening workflows by merging job requirements and screener questions into a unified API, preserving backward compatibility for millions of existing job posts and improving API maintainability with Java and REST, impacting employer setup and candidate application flows. • Pioneered migration of multiple REST APIs into a federated GraphQL supergraph by designing domain-owned schema extensions and implementing batched resolvers to avoid N+1 query problems, enabling cleaner frontend data queries while maintaining clear team ownership of data domains. • Analyzed API consumer patterns, job screening data, and candidate flows to prevent regression during migration; designed a normalized backend screening i
  • The Knot Worldwide
    Senior Software Engineer
    The Knot Worldwide
    May 2020 - Jul 2021 (1 year 3 months)
    • Built a RabbitMQ-based pub-sub system to synchronize product, category, and order updates asynchronously across ecommerce storefronts and internal systems, reducing service coupling and enabling more resilient data propagation. • Enhanced consumer reliability by adding idempotency and stale-event protections to event handlers, ensuring accurate read-store consistency despite duplicate and out-of-order message delivery. • Expanded Magento GraphQL API filtering and sorting capabilities for storefront product listings by reviewing query plans, SQL execution, catalog attributes, and attribute index usage to balance frontend flexibility with backend performance. • Validated filter and sort inputs in GraphQL queries to prevent slow or unsupport
  • Saatva
    Technical Lead
    Saatva
    Apr 2019 - May 2020 (1 year 2 months)
    • Led a backend team focused on order management and logistics, mentoring junior engineers, overseeing sprint planning, backlog grooming, and defining technical specifications to improve order processing reliability. • Architected a Financial Automation Tracker using Laravel delayed jobs and queues that transformed ecommerce order and logistics data into finance-ready accounting documents, ensuring idempotent retries and tracking failure reasons for operational clarity. • Designed and developed a vendor-specific EDI Processor to convert internal order data into factory-required formats, reducing factory rejection rates by improving address field validation and failure tracking. • Enhanced bulk admin operations safety by adding validation, r
  • Saatva
    Senior Software Engineer
    Saatva
    Oct 2017 - Apr 2019 (1 year 7 months)
    • Developed core EDI processing backend converting ecommerce orders to vendor-specific formats, validating key data fields and handling export failures to lower factory fulfillment errors by 25%. • Built Magento extensions to manage complex order revision workflows including returns and accommodations, aligning ecommerce processes with business operational needs. • Streamlined ETL pipelines by introducing consistent class structures and debugging long-running scheduled jobs, improving reporting data accuracy and reducing pipeline failures. • Established database migration and schema standards to simplify deployment reviews and support environment consistency. • Worked across teams to clarify deployment risks and maintain data correctness th
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    Software Engineer
    Modernize
    Jan 2015 - Oct 2017 (2 years 10 months)
    • Implemented CapMaster lead prioritization algorithm balancing buyer capacity and revenue potential, improving lead distribution fairness and auditability with SQL, Ruby, and backend service logic. • Led A/B testing and analysis for alternative phone validation providers, normalizing disparate response formats to reduce validation costs by 30% without harming lead quality. • Integrated dotmailer REST API for marketing contact synchronization, designing batch processing, retry strategies, and rate-limit handling to improve sync reliability. • Developed internal Chrome extensions to streamline call agent workflows and improve JIRA ticket quality, boosting agent productivity. • Automated configuration-triggered workflows with AWS SNS and Lamb
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  • The University of Texas at Austin
    Bachelor's degree
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Apr 2012 - May 2014 (2 years 2 months)
    Austin, Texas, United States
  • Texas McCombs School of Business
    Bachelor of Business Administration
    Texas McCombs School of Business
    Apr 2006 - May 2010 (4 years 2 months)
    Austin, Texas, United States