Software Engineer

What you'll do

• Have a huge impact on which products and features we build
• Define our technical architecture, processes, stack, and culture
• Own engineering and product goals end-to-end
• Work directly with customers to learn their needs

Suggested background

• Experience with JavaScript/React or Ruby/Rails. We're open to a people with different levels of seniority who specialize in different areas of the stack, front or back)
• High sense of ownership to independently make good decisions for users and the business
• A desire to be part of an early stage startup and wear multiple hats
• Curious about data
• Have an attention to detail and quality, but know how to balance that with speed given we're a startup
• A sense of humor (startups should be fun) as well as gravitas (startups are serious; money and livelihoods are on the line)

Challenges we face

• User experience: we want to build a delightful experience and beautiful interface for our users. How can we build powerful features that help people get to insights fast, and make it fun to use?
• Scalability: our users query and analyze large datasets in PopSQL, so our frontend and backend systems need to be performant and reliable to support these workflows.
• Team agility: as an early-stage startup, our objective is to balance product quality with speed within a rapid feedback loop with customers; not an easy feat!

Tech Stack

Frontend

• React, TypeScript
• Apollo to fetch data from our GraphQL API
• Storybook component library
• Electron to power our cross platform desktop application
• Next.js to build server side rendered static sites
• Tailwind CSS

Backend

• Rails hosted on AWS ECS
• GraphQL API
• PostgreSQL for our primary data store, Redis and Memcached for caching
• Terraform for infrastructure as code

Practices

• We love to weave testing, analytics, logging, monitoring, and alerting into our projects
• Continuous integration/delivery
• GitHub pull requests/code reviews
• Quick daily synchronous product meetings to demo progress and get rapid feedback from your peers