Sprinto Career

Sprinto is an early stage SaaS startup, working in the information security "compliance" space. This is a flourishing area, but has not seen any innovation in the last couple of decades. Thanks to some macro-changes, we think the space is ripe for a startup to become a market leader. Our job as founders and founding engineers is to ensure that Sprinto has a shot at this opportunity.

• Sprinto has an experienced founding team. Prior to Sprinto, we (http://girishredekar.net/" target="_blank">Girish and https://www.linkedin.com/in/raghuveerkancherla" target="_blank">Raghu) built Recruiterbox.com. We bootstrapped recruiterbox from 2011 to 2017, and scaled it to 2500+ global customers and a team of ~45 people spread across India and US. At the end of 2017, Recruiterbox was acquired by Turn/River capital.
• We wrote most of the early code at Recruiterbox, and remained among the top 5 committers even when the company ran at scale. We program because we love to, and understand the importance of good programming practices. At Recruiterbox, we adopted practices like writing unit tests, integration tests, CI, CD very early in our journey.
• We believe good engineering breeds good results - rapid development, low tech debt, easy maintainability etc. Our current choice of tech stack can be an interesting point of conversation when we meet.
• We believe that the best way to scale an engineering team is to build it around the founding engineers. That means, should you grab it, you will have unlimited opportunity for fast career growth. Needless to say you become an integral part of shaping the culture, engineering practices, tech choices etc.
• Sprinto is well capitalised from top notch investors. While you have all the advantages of working on challenging problems that come with working in a startup, you also don't have the risk of the company running out of money.
• Last but not the least, stock options. While all early stage startups offer stock options, not all of them are same. At Sprinto, we aren't satisfied with being just a large/successful company. We want to be the category leader. On a good outcome, your stint with Sprinto will leave you with no need to work for money and you only continue to work for passion.

• You are a hands-on programmer, and have professionally programmed for at least four years, preferably in a small team.
• You are a versatile programmer - not religious about any specific programming language, editor or libraries.
• You do not pigeon-hole yourself into frontend, backend, infrastructure etc. Good engineering requires working across these boundaries
• Your current peers look up to you for technical guidance or in making architectural choices. In your current team, you are the goto person when your systems are on fire.
• It helps if you've lived with the consequences of bad programming choices. You have an eye for spotting premature over-engineering that needlessly delay projects, but also notice when something that sounds fast/easy/tempting today will cost us severely in a few months
• You understand that, ultimately, Code is in the service of the business/customer problem it solves, and thrive in making tradeoffs that solve such problems efficiently
• While we do not expect you to have experience in our current tech stack, it is a bonus if you do — you can start contributing sooner. Our tech stack is: nodejs, nextjs, react, apollo-graphql, postgres, heroku. It would be interesting to hear from you what you think are the pros and cons of this tech stack