Responsibilities
- Break-down complex problems into solvable pieces of work for other Engineers.
- Depending on your specialization, projects/initiatives may include: Security, scaling distributed systems, working on our core services related to user management, building out new verticals, guiding new engagement features, scaling traffic/imports/exports, managing APIs.
- Help scale the company in both headcount/workforce, as well as our technology.
- Scale our platform to handle an increasing number of enterprise customers: +50,000 employees
- Work extremely cross-functionally across Engineering and Product Management.
- Train and mentor junior engineers.
- Deliverables: (30 days) Own a feature; possibly being paired with another engineer. (60 days) Own and drive a new initiative. (90 days) Bring that initiative to production.
Desired Skills and Experience
- Software development experience of 1+ years
- Expert proficiency in Ruby (Mandatory).
- SaaS /Internet company background: web-based, hosted on Heroku or AWS.
- Experience in an Agile and Scrum environment.
- Experience with one or more technologies desired, NOT required: Redis, Memcache, Redshift, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Hadoop, Microservices, Aws lambda and kinesys.
- Played a pivotal role in scaling a company. Startup experience strongly desired.
- You learn quickly, you’re adaptable and versatile.
- Experienced as a mentor.
- Track-record of achievements impacting team(s) and company(ies) versus solely building features.
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