Senior Software Engineer

Mark43 • New York City, NY

107d • $115,000 - $155,000

About The Position

Mark43's mission is to empower communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all. We build powerful, scalable, and elegant software that sets a new standard for the tools upon which our first responders rely. Our users are diverse, and we are therefore committed to embracing diversity of thought and experience within our team. We're seeking experienced and innovative full stack software engineers who have shipped at enterprise scale and released commercial software to enterprise customers. Come and help build the next generation of cloud based public safety software. As a member of the Mark43 team, you'll take ownership of products and features from start to finish, and become a knowledge resource that your teammates can trust and rely on. You'll build robust solutions to our unique problems of scale, security, and reliability. We heavily leverage technologies like Java, React, SQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch and enjoy participating in the open source community. As an engineer here, you'll have the freedom to implement your own solutions and have a meaningful impact on our product.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of professional experience using Java and React in production.
• Comfortable utilizing agile development and thoroughly testing your own code.
• Deep understanding of databases, automated testing, Agile methodologies.
• Proficiency building and managing RESTful APIs.
• Deep experience designing and building out infrastructure for complex cloud-based software applications, preferably hosted in AWS or Azure.
• Knowledge of or prior experience with microservices architecture.
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript and its many frameworks, HTML, CSS, and an interest in testing out new FE technologies.
• Knowledge of web architecture concepts including HTTP and REST.

Nice To Haves

• Humble, open, and curious.
• Attentive, active listeners.
• Resilience.
• Enthusiastic collaborators.
• Comfortable with uncertainty.
• Passionate about personal growth.
• Eager to help others.

Responsibilities

• Spent time working with a Product Manager to understand requirements for a new feature.
• Building features using popular technologies including but not limited to: Java, React, SQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
• Improve architectural strategy of a front-end or backend area of the product to meet higher velocity needs created by our growing customer base.
• Reviewed code submitted by other software engineers, and submitted your own code for review as part of our pull-request deployment process.
• Spent time meeting with a Product Designer to explain technical constraints for a specific feature.
• Collaborating with design and product teams to understand and document feature requirements.
• Written clear, concise technical documentation to accompany your code that your teammates will trust.
• Spent time testing out a new technology or taking part in a discussion on ways to improve our code base and engineering practices.
• Nurturing an engineering culture that cares deeply about the quality of the code we write, while still working quickly to bring our technology to as many departments as possible.

Benefits

• Market competitive total compensation including a target base annual salary range of $115,000 - $155,000.
• Bonus opportunity.
• Company stock options.
• Full benefits package including health insurance.
• Paid time off.
• 401k plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees