Senior Software Engineer - Ops Execution

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer I you will play a vital role in developing new features & products and helping to maintain and update our enterprise products. Working collaboratively with other talented engineers as an empathetic system thinker you will continue to evolve our platform.

Our software stack leans heavily on JSON HTML5 and Javascript. We extensively use Backbone & React in the frontend connected to a Python/Django backend with MySQL and Mongo for persistence. Our hybrid iOS and Android apps are also fully written with HTML and Javascript to round out our end-to-end JSON based stack.

The Zenput Core Platform teams own the full-stack web application that powers our customer experience across web and mobile devices. Everything from APIs to storage indexes to IE quirks unit tests to integration tests and greenfield features to spelunking in legacy code.

Youll be building new customer-facing functionality and continuing to improve the stability and scalability of Zenput.

What youll do as a Senior Software Engineer

• Using our entire technology stack to develop new features and applications for the Zenput platform including web and mobile UIs commenting and messaging webhooks and APIs as well as expand capabilities in our mobile applications.

  • Contribute to and influence design and development decisions
  • Work in an agile environment quickly and incrementally delivering value to our customers using tools from the SCRUM toolbox and using tight feedback loops with customers products and quality.
  • Maximize our velocity and minimize risk by using TDD/CI and other DevOps best practices.
  • Use Jira Slack and Zoom to communicate with your team and leadership.

What were looking for

• Ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts and information in English both verbally and in writing with clarity and precision.
• Great communicator and an outstanding team player. Bias towards over-communicating and asking questions.
• Desire to be part of a team need to understand and shape organizational culture and deep belief that the only way for them to be successful as an individual is for the team to be successful.
• Deep hands-on experience designing and operating software infrastructure.
• Curious and intentional about both mentorship and self-development
• CS/CIS/Systems Mentality
• Adoption of CI DevOps principles and a focus on quality
• A deep understanding about request life cycles system architecture and user behavior
• Strong understanding of software design fundamentals and algorithms
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and associated tools & principles
• MySQL/Postgres/RDBMS experience. (Just using ORMs doesnt count)
• Ability to design and implement the right technical solution for the right problem at the right time (i.e. you dont over-engineer but you do thoroughly consider the constraints)
• Someone fun interesting and likes to build and hack. Not just software!
• Desire to mentor and level up people around you

Nice to haves

• 5 years of relevant (full stack / web) work experience
• Specific experience with our tech (React Django Javascript Python NoSQL Mobile Development AWS)
• Experience working remotely
• Experience with DevOps
• Experience working with hardware (mobile devices embedded hardware)
• Expertise in and experience developing enterprise products and web products at scale
• Experience with distributed systems complex user interfaces or other challenging engineering problems
• Open source contributions
• Youve helped make your work environment fun and its important to you.
• Youve built great relationships with coworkers in the past and want to keep doing it.
• You care similarly about building great software and building great relationships with other people.
• Youre interested in the technical problems we are solving.
• Youre interested in the types of business problems we are solving.

What youll get

• Great mission-driven team members from diverse backgrounds with a strong company culture
• Competitive pay
• Flexible PTO
• Paid company holidays
• Yearly team off-sites
• International travel opportunities
• Medical dental and vision benefits (FSA HSA & HRA options)
• Basic & Voluntary Life Insurance
• 401k employer match
• Wellness benefits (Headspace Headspace)
• Commuter benefits
• Work in an open environment on solutions that are reshaping the way businesses operate
• Fun team events
• Ability to have a big impact
• 10 weeks of paid parental leave
• Fitness reimbursement
• Learning & development funds