Principal Software Engineer, Full Stack - Remote US or EU

August 3, 2023

Syrup Tech

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Description

• Collaborate closely with product management and cross-functional teams to understand requirements and translate them into scalable and performant software solutions. • Drive architecture and design of the application stack, making strategic decisions to drive innovation and maintain flexibility for future growth. • Design and implement clean, extensible, and scalable solutions, leveraging modern server-side frameworks and adhering to best practices. • Collaborate with fellow engineers to establish and maintain development standards, code quality, and efficient workflows. • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior members of the team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth. • Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies, identifying opportunities to improve our application and development processes. • Play an active role in code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices. • Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, ensuring the smooth functioning of the application.

Requirements

• A proven track record of success in leading the development of applications from inception to production, specifically with high-quality SAAS products. • Strong expertise in designing scalable, extensible, and performant solutions. • Proficiency in system architecture and data modeling, with a focus on optimizing data flow and storage. • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to think critically and propose innovative solutions. • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams. • A passion for staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies. • Leadership abilities, with experience mentoring and guiding junior engineers. • 7+ years of successful experience as a full-stack developer in a fast-paced startup environment. • Experience in incremental feature development, scalability improvements, and performance enhancements. • Full-stack development using JavaScript/TypeScript. • Designing clean and scalable APIs (GraphQL/REST/tRPC) with frameworks like Express.js or NestJS. • Familiarity with async workers and distributed systems. • System architecture and data model design, including optimizing data flow from the database to the user's browser. • Optimizing data models and access patterns using databases like PostgreSQL, and search services such as ElasticSearch, OpenSearch or Redis Search. • Cloud-based deployment and operation, leveraging services like RDS or Aurora, ECS Fargate, and other AWS ecosystem components. • Infrastructure automation and CI/CD practices, maximizing the potential of cloud-based infrastructure in the development lifecycle (e.g., GitHub Actions, Pulumi, Terraform). • Familiarity with HTML, CSS, real-time event-driven applications (e.g., SocketIO), front-end frameworks (e.g., VueJS, Angular, React/Next.js), data visualization tools (e.g., D3, Plotly), and Java or Python-based data management.

Benefits

• Remote First: We’re a remote first team across Europe and East Coast North America. For our colleagues in New York, you can come into our office in SoHo as often as you like. • Syrup summits: We bring the whole global team together every quarter for our Syrup summits. Previous locations: Barcelona, Madrid, Los Angeles, Warsaw, Boston, New York. • Equity: We offer generous equity compensation for all our early employees. • Generous health, vision, and dental coverage to our employees. • Generous PTO to take all the time you need, whenever you need it. • We offer competitive base pay with the NYC salary range of $150,000 - $240,000, and a similarly competitive range in other locations, commensurate with experience, generous early-stage equity package, and benefits including medical/dental/vision.