Senior Backend Engineer (Node or C# B2B SaaS)
Leadr, Inc, United States
Job Description
What makes this job meaningful?
This probably isn’t the first job description you’ve read today. Maybe this is one of over 100 you reviewed this week. So, before we go any further, we want to stop and say thank you for considering this role. The rest of this post will be our pitch to you. We know you have options and we’d like you to consider adding us to that list.
The world is full of strained relationships. Perhaps no place is greater evidence of this than the workplace. The cliche of conflict between manager and employee is age-old and we’re tired of it. We’re so tired of it, that we’re out to change it.
Leadr is a new kind of people management software, and while that may sound like business jargon, I promise you that this is not your typical B2B software company. At our core, we are helping organizations develop their people by turning managers into coaches and giving employees a voice. We believe today’s employees expect more than just a title and a salary they seek opportunities to learn, grow, be challenged, and be valued for the ideas they bring to the table. Unfortunately, most organizations lack the tools and structure needed to create a culture to support these expectations across every team and every manager. If this mission matters to you, keep reading.
Our development team at Leadr gets to pioneer this vision through building our world-class product and the systems to support it. We take feedback from our team and customers to create a roadmap to build.
Why You’ll Be Motivated To Apply
- You’ve mastered the basic skills of software engineering and need a new challenge. Your code is tidy and approaching an art form, your solutions are precisely architected to consider scalability, reliability, monitoring, security, automated testing, maintainability and all that.
- At this stage in your career you want to be asked to solve problems, rather than be told what to do.
- You’re excited by our tech stack and know that it presents both an opportunity for you dazzle us with your current skills but also stretch and grow.
- Leadr is an early stage startup and with that comes amazing growth opportunities. Most likely you’ve only worked at large mature bureaucratic companies or small companies that aren’t really growing. Leadr is neither of those things. You are going to stretch so much you’ll wish you were made out of nylon.
- Leadr is doing something radical and exciting. You noticed that when you checked out our website.
- Leadr is a solid financial position and we are expanding rapidly
Requirements
Our Tech Stack:
At a high level our tech stack is a React frontend on top of a serverless microservice backend implemented as NodeJS AWS Lambdas with data stored in DGraph, a graph DB. We are moving away from NodeJS to C# (.Net Core) for the backend.
Our SDLC and Deployment Process:
Our team abandoned Scrum a few months ago and found that quality improved dramatically. Now we are following a Kanban approach and we ship whatever has passed QA scrutiny to production once a week. We leverage Feature Flags heavily to control when we turn features on, but also as a safer alternative to branch-mania! We are slowly picking up the pace of deployments and are working towards eventually being able to safely and reliably deploying code to production several times per day.
You Will Be Well Set To CRUSH This Role If.
- You have 5+ years of experience building web applications, especially SasS applications.
- To be considered for this vital role you need to have prior software engineering experience on a B2B or B2C SaaS product that was a "daily-use" type of application, with a SDLC that closely matches what we are striving towards. In that role you were an integral part of successfully and reliably deploying updates to production on a daily basis.
- Experience with feature flags is practically essential.
- Experience with graph databases, something like DGraph, Neo4j or Neptune are ESSENTIAL.
- You should be proficient in Node JS and hopefully adaptable to c# .Net Core as well.
- You can devise engineering solutions by considering multiple options and then present the pros/cons including cost, effort, complexity, scalability, maintainability etc as part of your proposal and walk others through your decision matrix.
- Familiarity with a diverse range of datastore systems, especially Graph databases and traversal algorithms.
- You are no stranger to test automation, in fact you are reluctant to call something Code Complete unless it has decent test coverage.
- You’ve been part of a team that deploys commercial web apps built on cloud-native technologies through full CI/CD controlled environments.
- Experience w