Senior Software Engineer (Dev Lead)

Applause

8h•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Back-end Engineer will have the opportunity to work directly with our Lead Developer & Co-Founder, building many new features and architecting new back-end tools and conventions for other engineers to use. They will also be responsible for overseeing a Pod structure that eventually will include a designated PM and support engineers.

Requirements

7-12 years of experience as a back-end engineer
3-5 years of experience serving in a dev lead or similar role
5-10 years experience w/ Node as your primary environment
Aptitude and willingness to quickly learn established conventions
Very high standards for code quality
Passionate about programming with a strong history of shipping a lot of features in a short timeline
Very effective in a remote-work environment

Responsibilities

You should spend 80% of your time shipping a lot of back-end code, owning, building, and releasing a lot of new features and feature updates. Do this quickly, with high quality, and by the due date of an aggressive product roadmap (e.g., 90% + released on time).
Ensure code meets Applause’s high engineering standards, and that it still works with 10x more usage.
Working closely with the product team, you will lead out and own the design and architecture of new features/sub-systems on a per-project basis.
You will take ownership of the development side of a release from start to finish. This includes presenting and proposing multiple solutions for a given problem, determining the optimal solution based on requirements and constraints, delegating tasks to other developers on the project, assisting other developers during feature development, and building out and delivering on your own code tasks.