SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Company: Recruiting from Scratch
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: October 19, 2024
Job Description:
Our client is hiring a Software Engineer for their growing
team.This role is located in San Francisco.The
Role:Responsibilities:
- Unification: we're unifying dozens-to-hundreds of fragmented
systems under a single standard that we define. Our unification
covers data objects, data models, authentication, account-linking
UX, and features like filters and pagination. When designing any
new feature, we have to do it in a scalable way. For example, when
adding filters, we have to research each system we support (and
plan to support) and create a generic, system-agnostic
solution.
- On-prem: we're connecting with many types of on-prem systems
(SQL-based, DLL-based, API-based), many built 20-40 years ago. We
provide tremendous value to customers allowing them to interface
with these systems in a secure, fast, reliable way, as if they're
modern, cloud-based products. We need to support real-time
communication and webhooks when they don't exist (e.g., using
web-sockets).
- Scale & speed: we're handling millions of API requests per day,
and growing daily. For our products that we power with our own API
(e.g. Analytics), we need to store and retrieve large amounts of
data in an efficient way, building elegant caching layers to reduce
latency. We ship code daily and iterate quickly based on actual
feedback from paying customers (they share tons!).
- Operational excellence: we're creating a reliable API layer on
top of many old systems that don't have APIs. It's like building a
skyscraper on quicksand, enforced by SLAs. We need to innovate in
expanding the depth and breadth of our integrations while
simultaneously increasing our development velocity. We need to be
very creative in how to continually test our code and integrations,
creating scalable testing frameworks that can catch edge cases and
bugs across 1k+ endpoints.
- Mix of back-end and front-end: we're building front-end apps
that dog-food our own APIs (e.g. Sync, Analytics). This helps us
build world-class APIs because we suffer any pain present in our
API. We're building both the lego blocks and the higher-level lego
models: we see what kinds of APIs our SaaS customers want, then
also look at the kinds of API niceties we want for our own
applications (like a caching layer, advanced filtering) and
implement a combination of the two.
- Variety: without knowing, you might assume adding a new
integration is low-ambiguity and routine. But each integration we
launch is special, completely different and posing unique
challenges. This requires researching that system and its nuances
in great depth before building on top of it. It's part engineering,
part archeology.Tech stack:Backend: PHP LaravelCandidate
requirements:
- 1 - 4 years of experience as a Back-end/full-stack engineer.
(we're open to exceptional college grads with strong intern/co-op
experience).
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS)
- Self-motivated, high ownership, low ego; desire to work on a
fast-paced, intense, fun team. Excited to be our next hire; passion
for building a world-class engineering cultureCompensation:$110,000
- $175,000 base + equity
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Keywords: Recruiting from Scratch, Berkeley , SOFTWARE ENGINEER, IT / Software / Systems , San Francisco, California
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