Remote Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join our team at Ghost, a private b2b marketplace that helps scale distribution for top brands, as a Staff Software Engineer. You will help build our platform from scratch, collaborating with engineering and product teams to meet milestones. This role is remote-friendly in select states.

Requirements

• 7-10 years as a software engineer at a high-growth startup
• Technical thought leader with proficiency in Ghost’s current tech stack: NestJS, Next.js, Typescript, postgreSQL, Redis, AWS
• Ability to communicate technical ideas across teams
• Coach/mentor engineers as our team grows to pay it forward and align the team in a growth mindset
• Ability to listen: Shows genuine interest in understanding customers' needs, asks questions, and thinks answers through
• Effective communication: Brings you along for the ride, and you can follow a coherent message. Writes and speaks efficiently; doesn’t sugarcoat a message; you don’t feel like you have to interrupt to go to the next question
• Growth mindset: Eagerness to embrace unknown scenarios; bias towards learning
• Scrappiness: Enjoys taking initiative; doesn’t need to gather a team around them to get things done. Embrace a “done is better than perfect” mindset, knowing things can improve over multiple iterations
• An individual contributor: Hands on, collaborative, and proficient in their craft
• Data-driven: outcomes to validate their work
• Passion: Genuine interest in the problems we are solving

Responsibilities

• Help us build our platform from the ground up to serve our growing customer ecosystem
• Deliver outcomes by understanding business needs and producing quality code to scale existing business
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with engineering and product teams to meet milestones
• Create a knowledge-sharing environment where code reviews and design discussions are the norm
• Speak up and contribute to collaborative technical discussions with leadership
• Deliver scalable technical solutions to solve business needs
• Solve complex technical problems and build scalable solutions for business/customer needs
• Lead and evangelize engineering best practices
• Produce high-quality code, perform code reviews, help with architecture and design, and introduce technical best practices (testing, monitoring, etc.)

Benefits

Total compensation for this position can range from $180,000 - $220,000