Senior Software Engineer

Job Overview

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will be a hands-on contributor to the frontend and backend apps powering our platform. You will learn Elixir on the job from your colleagues and technical leaders. You will collaborate with technical leaders and the founding team to deliver new features to our application. You will work closely with your colleagues to refactor and improve the codebase; create a beautiful, functional, and delightful user experience; and build an excellent and supportive engineering culture.

We are open to candidates in Vancouver, BC, Remote, Canada or Remote, USA.

Requirements

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Consider themselves highly capable at hands-on development of features in both the frontend and backend and be able to ship React/Typescript code on day one.
• Possess the know how to build customer-facing products across the entire stack, from the data model to the UI.
• Have a strong desire to learn Elixir and experience picking up new programming languages.
• Be proactive and self-motivated and comfortable learning on the job in a fast-paced environment.
• Be comfortable working with a small team including directly with the founders on building a product and a company.
• Adapt well to a quickly moving environment.

Required Experience

• Substantial expertise building interfaces with React and working in Typescript.
• Strong experience building backend API services using Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
• Have a philosophy in writing automated backend tests.
• Translating design mockups (e.g. Figma) into frontend implementation.
• Working closely with product designers on feedback for UI/UX changes.

Preferred Experience

• Understanding of the ins and outs of data modeling and software architecture for developing performant and maintainable code.
• Experience building or working with GraphQL APIs.
• Working closely with product managers on understanding use cases, prioritizing features, and scoping work.
• Exposure to Elixir or other functional languages.

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