Software Engineer

Who We Are

EZ Texting is a recognized leader in text message marketing for small and medium-sized businesses and organizations, setting the standard for professional texting. Our messaging solutions allow everyone to easily and effectively reach their mobile audiences.

We believe in empowering our customers, from nonprofits to retailers, to activate their audience engagement superpowers, one text at a time – and we’re looking for people like you to join our team!
Our employees are our greatest strength and we are committed to hiring exceptional, values-aligned talent. We have consistently been rated a Top 100 workplace and are committed to being a best-in-class remote work employer — with benefits to match!

We are currently only open to hiring in CA, NY, TX, MA, WA, GA, PA, FL, TN, DC, MO. At this time, we are not able to consider candidates outside of these states.

Role Overview

We are looking for a motivated Java Software Engineer, passionate about the art and craft of building quality software. In this position, you will play an important role in developing and maintaining the functional product and applications, services of our platform, and make a tangible contribution to the value we bring to customers. As a member of a cross-functional Agile Squad, you will collaborate with peer engineers and stakeholders across the organization in finding optimal solutions to set goals and challenging technical problems - your impact will go beyond just writing software. Aside from technical expertise, we’re looking for an engineer who enjoys working in teams, can influence technology decisions, bring a fresh perspective and best practices, and actively takes part in continuous improvement of the Agile process.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Agile Squad members to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality products built on top of distributed microservices ecosystem

• Design, monitor, and maintain said microservices, become an expert in the technology and business domain they cover

• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by following good SDLC practices

• Initiate and drive improvements to our practices, process, infrastructure, and technology

• Ensure long-term maintainability of source code and services operating in production through peer code reviews, unit tests, documentation, and other common techniques

• Make pragmatic decisions that further personal and team goals

• Collaborate with Product Managers and other non-technical stakeholders in making the best decisions on the cross-section of technology, customer experience, and business value

• Perform product demonstrations to stakeholders

• Develop Java based user interfaces

• Reporting to the Team Lead and under technical supervision of the Principal Engineer

Required Skills:

• 2+ years of development experience as a Java Software Engineer, Java Developer or similar role

• Familiar and experienced with significant changes in Java8+

• General understanding of Java internals (classloading, memory management, transaction management, etc.)

• Understanding of OOP concepts

• Experience with Java IoC and ORM frameworks - Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate

• Experience with build tools like Maven and understanding of continuous build/delivery

• Experience building REST/JSON APIs or web services

• Hands-on Git experience

• Basic understanding of networking and security best practices

• Knowledge of relational databases, SQL.

• Experience with NoSQL databases

• Familiarity with agile development methodologies

• Great design and problem-solving skills, passion for quality, and engineering excellence at scale

• Optionally: Experience with other languages besides Java

• Optionally: Experience with messaging models, search indexing, distributed caching

• Optionally: Experience with containerized applications and service discovery

• Optionally: Experience tuning and scaling high-volume transactional use cases

• Optionally: BS in CS or related field

What We Offer

Compensation: This role is eligible for equity and the benefits & perks listed below. Depending on your location, the starting cash compensation range, inclusive of Base Salary + Variable Target, vs base salary only is:

Tier 1 (Bay Area, NYC, SEA) : $125,546.45- $172,318.65
Tier 2 (LA, SD, BOS, ATX, DC, PHI): $119,966.60-$158,533.16
Tier 3 (DAL, ATL, HOU, NSH, MIA, ALB): $111,596.84- $151,640.41
Tier 4 (Other): $97,647.24- $137,854.92

Our compensation market ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range provided reflects the target cash compensation for new hires in major metropolitan areas. Actual compensation will vary based on the candidate’s specific location, skills, experience, and capabilities, as well as internal benchmarking.

Benefits & Perks:

EZ Texting offers Best-in-Class healthcare cost sharing for Medical, Dental & Vision! Learn more about our robust benefit inclusions below:

• 100% Employee Sponsored Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage

• Stock Options

• Pre-Tax Benefits, Fertility Benefits, and more

• 401k Plan Options

• Unlimited PTO, Disconnect Days, Paid Holidays, and more

Remote-Work Optimization Benefits Including:

• Home Office Stipend

• Remote Flex Stipend

• Cell-Phone/Internet Stipend

• DoorDash Subscription

• And More!!!

Equal Opportunity Employer

EZ Texting provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to age, race, color, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, medical condition, disability, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.