Our client is the first and largest peertopeer marketplace driven to change how the world views laundry. Their customers tap the app and outsource their laundry. For them its life without laundry because it was hacked out of existence. They solve a second problem too which is that more and more people of varying backgrounds want to work from home. Luckily most people have an underutilized washer/dryer which when combined with their Laundry Pro app provides the firstever manual labor workfromhome gig in the world.
Perfect product market fit drove a 100x surge in users & revenue and doubledigit MoM growth over the past few years. In 2021 they scaled to 500 markets throughout the United States. In March 2022 they closed a $10m seed round which included VC investments from Headline Origin Ventures Starting Line VC Ludlow Ventures and Clean Ventures as well as notable angel investments from some of Silicon Valleys most successful founders. Rocket growth continued in 2022 and 2023.
The Role
You wont just write codeyoull shape the architectural vision that powers the entire ecosystem. As our Staff Engineer youll partner with our Head of Engineering to orchestrate largescale highly available systems set new standards for code quality and push the envelope of technical innovation. Youll be the guiding force that ensures our platform remains lightningfast secure and endlessly scalable.
What Youll Do
Architect the Future: Design and implement distributed systems microservices and advanced database strategies (think sharding partitioning replication) that form the backbone of our web and mobile products. Build at Scale: Develop both frontend and backend solutions in TypeScript. Your code will power seamless experiences for customers and Laundry Pros across iOS Android and the web. Champion Excellence: Establish best practices for security performance optimization and monitoring. Youll make sure our product isnt just goodits worldclass. Lead & Mentor: Guide crossfunctional teams mentor engineers and provide strategic technical direction. Youll influence major decisions and shape the engineering roadmap. Push Product Velocity: Execute ambitious product goalslike dynamic geopricing or international expansionwhile keeping the codebase clean stable and blazing fast. Stay HandsOn: You love coding. Youll spend most of your time in the trenches building new features and ensuring our platform evolves at lightspeed.
Heres How Youll Leave Your Mark
Architectural Wizardry: Youll spearhead system designs that handle high traffic maintain uptime and support fastgrowing user demands. Quality Evangelist: Through code reviews and pair programming youll level up the entire teams technical barno spaghetti code on your watch! Technical Visionary: Collaborate with product and design to translate big ideas into robust scalable solutions that keep us on the cutting edge. Operational Maestro: Implement monitoring alerting and incident response strategies so we can squash bugs and anomalies before users even notice. Innovation Engine: Spot opportunities to adopt new tools or refine existing processes fueling our culture of continuous improvement.
What Youll Bring to the Table
Seasoned Coder: 10 years of active coding experience (and counting). Youre a TypeScript pro but youre equally comfortable exploring new languages when the problem calls for it. System Design Sage: Mastery of architecture principles deep understanding of system design patterns and advanced data modeling. You can handle the toughest scaling challenges in your sleep. Cloud KnowHow: Youve deployed monitored and maintained services on platforms like AWS and GCP as well as managed infrastructures like Firebaseand you can spin up infrastructure without breaking a sweat. Leadership DNA: Youve guided teams mentored engineers and influenced tech decisions in previous roles. People trust your judgment and rally behind your direction. HighVelocity Mindset: You thrive in a fastpaced async environment and see obstacles as fuel for creative solutions. Startup Spirit: Youre selfdirected love taking ownership and believe that no is just the starting point for how. Performance Tuner: Youve built largescale lowlatency systems and have the battle scars to prove it. DevOps Wizardry: Containerization orchestration CI/CD Infrastructure as Codeif you know it we want it. Global Expansion Experience: If youve scaled products across borderslike rolling out dynamic geobased featuresyoull fit right in.
Tech Stack Our tech stack is mostly TypeScript allowing engineers to implement endtoend functionality. On the frontend we use Angular/Ionic and on the backend Firebase.
Why Youll Love Working with Them Early Impact: Youll be one of the first employees at a fastgrowing startup. Your fingerprints will be all over the data universe. Rocket Growth: Were experiencing explosive expansionbe part of the journey and watch your own career soar. Shape Our Culture: Help define our values collaborate on worldclass practices and influence who we hire next. Endless Opportunities: As we grow you grow. The skys the limit for your career trajectory. MissionDriven Team: We work hard innovate nonstop and serve our community of users with passion. Compensation & Perks: Competitive base salary equity package benefitsand the freedom to work where and when you do your best work.
Location Remote (with a 9am Central Time daily standup and at least 5 hours overlapping CST)
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