Senior Software Engineer

Seeking a senior, dynamic, highly motivated full stack developer interested in working for a very early stage bootstrap startup. We have a Beta/MVP live, but need to get bug free and fast ASAP. The position has pay commensurate with local salaries in low-cost countries but will earn equity equivalent to their salary which could be worth up to more than that when the company is successful. I can show you our assumptions and estimates once you sign an NDA).

About Us
We are a company dedicated to helping people find the food they love, no matter what food interests or dietary preferences they may have. You’ll be joining in the very early stages of the company, and have the chance to influence the direction of the company with your ideas and contributions.

Our Tech Stack (Front End):

• JQuery
• Bootstrap
• EJS templates
• HTML/CSS All new modules
• js with a team-maintained and crowd-sourced component library Middleware/Back end.
• Express
• js
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• API layer
• Elastic Search

Desired attributes:

• Enjoys iterative/agile development – We will iterate based on internal and customer feedback until we make an awesome product! We also have a very deep and compelling product roadmap we make consistent progress against.
• Works well collaboratively with other developers, contributing to the codebase, performing code reviews, and mentoring a team of junior developers. We have a lot of junior developers learning to code that need mentorship/leadership.
• A passion for food would be great, our business is to help pair people up with amazingly good food.
• Results-oriented

Responsibilities:

• Ability to build on and maintain a fully functional responsive web application
• Experience building API-driven applications

Qualifications:

• CS Degree is great but development skills are more important than degrees
• Ability to build and maintain a fully responsive website
• Prefer proficiency in our tech stack, but willing to teach people who are highly motivated and can spend significant time on the project for equity.
• GitHub or similar source code management system experience
• Nice to have: Experience developing customer-facing web applications

• Collaborate with team members to develop high quality software.
• Develop intuitive software that meets and exceeds the needs of the company.
• Professionally maintain all software and create updates regularly to address customer and company concerns.
• Analyze and test programs and products before formal launch. Troubleshoot coding problems quickly and efficiently.
• Designing, developing, and testing UI for mobile and web applications. Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Accurately translate user and business needs into functional frontend code

As a front end product engineer, you will work with product engineers & designers to improve the overall user experience, performance, reliability and scalability of our systems. From handling millions of messages/ payments a minute to extract buyer intent and priority for processing these transactions to building tools to trace and visualize payments made across a business you'll be involved in projects that span all aspects of the business. Our goals includes scaling and architecting systems to support advanced product features that may not be currently viable because of hard technical considerations. You'll collaborate with our small, but effective, framework team with a track record of highly impactful work for Finly.

WITHIN 1 MONTH, YOU'LL

• Complete Finly's new-hire training week, and learn Accounts Payable Processes & the various partners we work with to make Finly happen.
• Investigate, solve and release a bug fix to production. In order to do this you will ramp up on Finly's engineering stack by pair-programming with your teammates and attending engineering training sessions designed and presented by the team.
• Meet with cross-functional peers around the company to learn how the product functions.
• Complete your engineering starter project and deploy your first changes to production.

WITHIN 3 MONTHs, YOU'LL

• Learn Finly's technical stack and apply development patterns through your work.
• Engage in your first on-call rotation in Support Engineering to help diagnose and resolve production problems and customer issues
• Individually contribute reliably ship full features to customers.
• Estimate technical scope and time to complete major features and initiatives.

WITHIN 6 MONTHS, YOU'LL

• Move to new product vertical & initiative and start designing scalable frontend systems.
• Have made a visible impact on the product for all the users of Finly.
• Work closely with your team to remove roadblocks, educate on best practices and improve how we work.
• Be comfortable navigating most of frontend stack and infrastructure
• Be responsible for the planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new features
• Participate in interviewing and hiring, as a way to influence team growth and how our values inform our culture

WITHIN 12 MONTHS, YOU'LL

• Individually contribute and lead teams to reliably ship full improvements to our frontend services
• Define tools and standards for product engineering to measure performance impact of releases
• Drive service reliability by developing tooling that enables metric visibility using SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
• Developing Production Readiness standards to ensure service reliability
• Help grow other engineers technically by mentoring, pairing and developing other learning opportunities
• Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to define priorities and set delivery goals

Your understanding of front-end technologies, web application dev, system design, will be put to the test. You will take up a project for a team and then move to another project.

Join us & have the authority and responsibility to make things happen!

We are looking for UI developers with good knowledge of React JS. As a developer you will be responsible for understanding the requirements and developing the UI as per UX / VDs provided by the business / product team. You will be responsible for delivering a performant, robust and easy to maintain application. You will co-ordinate with different teams like backend developers, QA, product team and devops team to ensure quality deliverables.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer science or related technical field
• 2-4 years of experience in developing UI components leveraging React.js
• Experience in eCommerce domain is an advantage