Lead Software Engineer
Jellyvision is hiring a Lead Software EngineerWho we are
We at Jellyvision are the proud parents of ALEX®, an interactive employee communications platform that makes tricky decisions—like choosing and using employee benefits—easier and more enjoyable. The success of ALEX has exceeded our wildest work-related dreams, which is why we need a talented Lead Software Engineer to help us.
How you'll help
As a Lead Software Engineer in the Core Engineering team, you’ll helm a team of engineers in the software development effort for our flagship product. You’ll also be working closely with our Product team to help design the technical solutions needed to accomplish our business goals.
Experience & skills you’ll need
- 5+ years of experience
- Experienced with Ruby, React, and Redux (not required, but preferred)
- An excellent giver and receiver of constructive code review feedback
- Committed to testing their code as a part of writing it
- Able to navigate testing framework
- Horrified at the thought of working without Source Control
- Solid software engineering fundamentals
- The ability to design and build performant, reliable, and maintainable code
- A passion for code quality, identifying and solving problems, and making sure they stay solved by writing tests.
- A commitment to mentoring and teaching other, less experienced team members.
- Experience with full stack development
- Experience with a relational database (ORMs are great, experience writing raw SQL is even better)
- Experience developing software with Git (especially familiarity with git-flow)
- An understanding of how to build web applications with a modern frontend Javascript framework (any experience is great, but React and Redux would be a big plus!) and modern backend framework.
- Docker and DevOps skills (not required, but definitely a plus)
Note: We’re not necessarily looking for engineers who know a specific language. However, here are the sorts of languages you might work with if you join our team: Our backend systems are built on multiple languages including Ruby, Javascript and Python. Our frontend systems are built with Javascript.
Skills:
Demonstrates Self Awareness
Drives Result
Optimizes work process
Collaborates
Persuades
Self-Development
Manages Ambiguity
Decision Quality
Communicates Effectively
Anything else?
Our credo is a simple one: be helpful. And we think we can be most helpful if our workforce is as diverse in thought, perspective, and culture as the people who use our products. We are looking to add amazing people to our team who will bring diversity across many lines, including race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity, sex, and country of origin.
Thanks for your interest in Jellyvision!