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Jordan Mitchell

Senior Software Engineer

jordan.mitchell@email.com·+1 415 892 3041·San Francisco, CA

Summary

Results-driven software engineer with 7+ years of experience building scalable web applications and distributed systems. Passionate about clean architecture, developer tooling, and mentoring junior engineers. Led migration of monolithic services to microservices, reducing deployment time by 60%.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Stripe · San Francisco, CA
Mar 2022Present
  • Architected and delivered a real-time fraud detection pipeline processing 50K+ events/sec using Kafka and Flink.
  • Led a cross-functional team of 5 engineers to redesign the merchant onboarding flow, reducing drop-off by 34%.
  • Established CI/CD best practices and reduced average deployment cycle from 45 min to 12 min.
  • Mentored 3 junior engineers through quarterly growth plans and weekly 1:1 code reviews.

Software Engineer II

Airbnb · San Francisco, CA
Jun 2019Feb 2022
  • Built and maintained the Payments Reconciliation Service handling $2B+ in annual transactions.
  • Developed a custom React component library used across 12 internal tools, improving dev velocity by 25%.
  • Implemented comprehensive integration test suite that caught 40% more regressions before production.

Frontend Engineer

Figma · San Francisco, CA
Aug 2017May 2019
  • Contributed to the real-time multiplayer editing engine, optimizing WebSocket communication latency by 30%.
  • Shipped the plugin API v2, enabling 500+ community-built extensions within the first quarter.

Education

B.S. Computer Science

UC Berkeley
20132017

Skills

Languages: TypeScript · Python · Go · Java · SQL
Frontend: React · Next.js · Vue.js · CSS-in-JS
Backend & Infra: Node.js · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Redis · Kafka · AWS
Tools: Git · Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · Datadog