Do you want to change the world? Then join Peachjar! We are helping schools connect parents to their community so that their children can have a better future. We pioneered the shift to cloud-based flyer distribution, and today we’re delivering the next generation of mobile and cloud technologies that help school districts revolutionize the way they deliver information to parents.
Company Information:
Peachjar is an ed-tech company boasting a professional, fun, and supportive environment where success is celebrated! Although the company is headquartered in beautiful San Diego, the following position is remote within the U.S.
We're looking for a highly motivated Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our team. The right candidate will be hands-on, lead and drive architectural design, and execute software solutions on the Peachier platform.
What We Have:
- Fun and dynamic team, where success is celebrated
- A company full of nice people; grumpy people need not apply
- A modern tech stack
- A very exciting road map
- Competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, vision, STD/LTD, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, stock options, and 401(k) with matching
- Other voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, auto & home insurance, personal excess liability, identity theft protection, prepaid legal, & AFLAC plans (accident, hospital indemnity & critical illness)
- Generous PTO and holiday pay
- Employee assistance program
- Employee referral bonus plan
- Perks discount program
- Training courses
- Work from home stipend
What You’ll Do:
- Inspire continuous learning through sharing your passion for engineering
- Help team members recognize and avoid engineering and architectural pitfalls
- Nurture wisdom in the team when exploring new technology, teaching independent thinking, how to see beyond the hype, and the importance of trade-offs
- Foster a culture of respecting ideals while embracing pragmatism
- Work with team members to share emerging architectural and engineering design patterns
- Own the lifecycle of your product code, including DevOps, bug fixes, and tech debt reductions
- Architect and Engineer both Web and Mobile applications from scratch
- Design and extend versionless GraphQL APIs
- Build efficient and reusable front-end and back-end systems and abstractions
- Mentor fellow engineers on back-end and front-end architecture and best practices
- Peer review code, collaborate on architecture, and challenge opinions
What You Have:
- 8+ years of relevant work experience
- Strong knowledge of JavaScript and Node.js
- Experience following the best practices of component-based frontend architecture
- Commanding grasp of HTML, CSS, and related web technologies
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals
- Experience with relational databases such as Postgres
- Defensible opinions around technology choices within the Node.js ecosystem
- A sense of obligation toward writing testable code
- Great communication skills and the ability to succeed on a cross-functional team
What You May Also Have:
- Experience working with GraphQL or designing GraphQL schemas
- Experience with TypeScript
- Experience with Functional and Object-oriented programming patterns
- Experience with Domain Driven Design and the works of Martin Fowler and Eric Evans
- Experience building large production Javascript applications
- A high sense of priority around Web Security
- Experience with some of the following: MQs, GraphQL, Distributed Systems, Data Science, ML, Back-end for Frontend (BFF) APIs
- Experience with graph databases
- Experience with NATS, Kafka, or other event-driven technologies
- Experience building mobile applications with React Native, Swift, Objective-C, Java, or Kotlin
- Experience with GraphQL clients like Relay or Apollo
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