Senior Full Stack Engineer

Summary

Join Honeycomb's growing engineering team as a Full-Stack Senior Engineer and contribute to building pivotal features for Enterprise customers. You will build and deliver high-quality software using Typescript/React and Go, collaborating with cross-functional partners. Responsibilities include supporting production software, learning new ways to solve complex problems, and potentially taking on tech lead roles. The ideal candidate possesses deep experience in React, Typescript, and web development, along with experience in full-stack development and production support. Honeycomb offers a remote-first culture, competitive compensation, generous equity, unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, and more.

Requirements

• Deep experience in React, Typescript, and building for the Web. You have experience of at least 2 years working with technologies we use and have the experience of being a technical lead to design and implement new features for the browser
• Act with Autonomy and Ownership. Can work independently and with the team as needed and be accountable end-to-end through planning, deployment, and maintenance, showing ownership of their own work in production. Proactively identifies and suggests solutions to problems impacting the team. Knows how to create their own learning path, proactively seeking out the resources they need to level up
• Experience working across an application stack. You have experience with modern frontend and backend languages. You have delivered features for which you built the UI, as well as the database migrations, services, and API endpoints that power them. You also bring experience with services that interact with distributed data stores, like event streaming (Kafka)
• Comfortable supporting production software. You have experience shipping features to production and understand how to investigate and triage issues in your deployed code. You may have participated in an on-call rotation before and have opinions about making it an effective and positive experience
• A strong sense of teamwork. By working as a member of an effective team our shared objectives are consistently reached, our users benefit from our rapid delivery, we grow together by sharing knowledge, and we ensure that every team member can get the rest and time away they need
• A flexible mindset. The urgency of product delivery within a growing business sometimes requires us to alter our strategies or roadmap. You have an open mind and are comfortable pivoting when necessary to meet the company's or customers' needs
• Can balance engineering investment with customer value. It’s easy to get caught up in building a perfectly polished solution and lose the context of the value you are delivering. You have experience revisiting scope and working in small iterations to quickly put features in customers’ hands

Responsibilities

• Build and deliver quality software. You will write code across the full application stack, primarily in Typescript/React and Go
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners. Our team follows a product triad model composed of design, product, and engineering. You will collaborate with these partners, beginning with problem discovery through solution design and delivery. We work through building small changes/experiments and then iterate based on customer interaction
• Support our software/systems in production. We believe in owning the software that we build. The ownership is built through defining our own team KPIs, product SLOs, and alerting. Every engineer on the team participates in an on-call rotation to support issues that our customers encounter (reactive) and to look for other areas of toil that our customers may face (proactive)
• Learn new ways to solve complex problems. As our company and product grow, we regularly face new challenges in scaling to meet our customers’ demands. You will learn new technologies as we look for new ways to use our databases, caches, and streams to optimize for this growth. With the support of your team and the larger organization you can be creative in your problem solving, experiment carefully, and participate in designing novel solutions
• Wear the tech lead or feature lead hat. The ideal candidate would probably enjoy a variety in their work and be willing to jump between creating software and helping break down work to support the team to deliver against its goals. You will be expected to successfully plan, lead, and deliver complex, multi-team or system, long-term projects, including ones with external dependencies
• Values clear, open communication and teamwork. We see clear, thoughtful, and regular written & face-to-face communication (including a willingness to give & receive feedback) as a fundamental engineering skill and one of the strongest predictors of future engineering impact, not just a nice to have, and we hope you do too. In this role, you will also be a part of helping others maintain resilience in periods of change

Benefits

• Base pay (range) of $185,000 - $206,000
• A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
• It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience
• Time to recharge - Unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical
• A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)
• Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
• 100% employee/75% for dependents coverage for all benefits
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
• Annual development allowance