🤔 Sound like you? 🤔

Writes code gud:

You are a software engineer generalist and you’re good at it. You own technical architecture, enjoy identifying future needs and ideating on solutions to help us scale. You thoroughly research and document implementation options and their trade-offs, and make the best choice. You complete your work with a high degree of quality.

Mentorship:

You enjoy pointing out code that ‘smells’, enforcing best practices/conventions, teaching new concepts, and reviewing code/coaching junior engineers through your reviews.

Technical Direction Setter:

You are a documentation god; laying the groundwork for best practices, contributing to the wiki, owning code conventions guide and linting rules. You vet and re-vet tools and frameworks and you’re not afraid to call out the CTO on his shit!

Glue:

You are a great teammate and usually the glue for your team. Doing the needed, but often invisible, tasks to keep the team moving forward and shipping their best work. Working behind the scenes to expedite the most important projects and ensure that they cross the finish line. (Learn more here)

Have taken the Oath of Growth:

You have a growth mindset. You give and receive feedback well without being combative or getting defensive, take accountability for your mistakes and choose to learn from them, and you approach subjects and issues with curiosity.

Problem solver:

You excel at understanding and solving complex problems, identifying tech pain points, and thinking about future implications of a solution/feature. You also have incredible attention to detail.

Communication enthusiast:

You have strong communication (written and verbal) and can use that ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with a diverse range of people and job functions.

Authentic:

You bring your authentic self to work and are able to have fun, not take yourself too seriously, and genuinely love what you do.

💻 Role 💻

StartPlaying is a web-based product. (just fyi 🙃 )
Champion the best engineering practices and build excellent engineering culture within the organization.
Help estimate, plan, and execute projects, features, and integrations.
Own and deliver technical projects from the planning stage through shipping.
Work with CTO to define the overall technical architecture for major parts of the product, focusing on the user experience.
Lay the groundwork for and help maintain engineering guidelines, processes, and coding standards.
Continually grow your technical skills to solve our hardest technical challenges around quality, performance, robustness, and reliability.
Laugh at CEO’s poor attempts at humor.
Use modern tools and frameworks to develop new product functionality.
Use and develop your skills as a mentor and technical leader to help build up junior engineers.
Perform design and code reviews and advise/mentor junior engineers.
Understand how key technical decisions will drive business outcomes.
Contribute to the product process: thinking through UX, beautiful UI, and connecting with customers to solve their problems.
Actually writing code!

Requirements

Experience:

5+ years of full stack development experience
Prior mentorship experience
Languages: TypeScript/JavaScript, PostgreSQL, GraphQL or REST, React

Nice to haves:

AWS
Startup Experience

Technologies we use:

Languages: TypeScript, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, React, Next.js
Tools: Linear, GitHub, AWS (Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch), Notion, Discord, Zoom

Benefits

✅ Taking Care of Your Future ✅

Compensation: $119,000 - $162,000 + 75th percentile Equity
Medical, dental and vision insurance: 100% coverage for you, 50% coverage for all your dependents.
Voluntary insurance: short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
401(k) plan through Slavic401(k).
Free access to OneMedical, Health Advocate, and Teladoc
Click here for a benefits overview

🏝 Generous Time Off 🏝

Take as much vacation as you like (no less than 2 weeks!)
All Federal holidays, plus Thanksgiving and Winter Break.
- We’re flexible on individuals moving their time off to align with their celebrated holidays.
Flexible parental leave
One free nerd convention (of your choosing) + one company sponsored offsite/trip per year

✍️ Investing in Your Growth ✍️

We budget for your professional development.
We do an optional company “book club”. We read books together and discuss if/how to implement some of the ideas into the company.
We do team building activities and seminars together.

💯 Setting You Up For Success 💯

Custom MacBook Pro.
$1000 budget for workstation setup (not including your MacBook)
Flexible spending accounts for commuter costs, dependent care, and healthcare expenses.

At StartPlaying, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. (We shouldn’t have to say that, but we unfortunately have to)

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