Sr. Software Engineer (Backend)
DataPad
Software Engineering
Posted on Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Intro
Our mission is to enable a data-driven culture for teams of all sizes.
So we're on the road to build the world’s easiest data solution.
Recently raised $1m in pre-seed, backed by 500 Startups.
Forming a team of A-Players.
Position
- Role: Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
- Comp: min $3.500 Salary & Stock Options
Challenge & Opportunity
- Help discover product-market-fit via iterations
- Shape the initial culture & vision of the company
- Autonomously own & lead a major platform
- Build a world-class product from the ground-up
- Build this thing into a Unicorn -> get very generous stock rewards
Work
- Report to the CTO
- Join a team of 4 extremely talented senior engineers
- Own, build & maintain an entire domain (i.e. API, Integrations)
- Make leading contributions to the entire tech-stack & architecture
- Come up with creative solutions to business & technical problems
- Set the initial tech-culture & processes in the company
- Provide mentorship to juniors
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience (must have)
- Strong knowledge of JavaScript (ES2015+) or Python
- Experienced in creating RESTful Apis & microservice architecture
- Experience with document-oriented databases (i.e. MongoDB, Couchbase)
- Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
- Professional experience of cloud platform hosting via AWS
- Excels in industry best-practices & standards
- Up-to-date & ahead of modern-technologies
- Takes a results/value driven approach (no over-engineering)
- Passionately wants to be in a startup environment
- Eagerness to work in a fast-paced environment
- Proficiency in English
Our Values
- Iterative & lean product development
- Data, research, customer driven
- Autonomous team of A Players
- Hackers, makers, creators
- Simplicity & elegance > complexity
- Customer value > engineering challenge
- Positive attitude
Technical Assessment