Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Wonderschool, a company using technology to support childcare providers, as a Senior Software Engineer on the Marketplace team. You will enhance the parent experience on the platform, collaborate with other engineers to improve architecture and code quality, and contribute to the development of features from initial analysis to delivery. This role involves debugging production issues, participating in rotating engineering support, ensuring high test coverage, and communicating progress to the product team and leadership. You will also gain insights into the early childcare industry by attending user interviews and onboarding sessions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience as a backend or full stack engineer
• Previous experience with Elixir or other functional programming languages
• Previous experience with Postgres, with a focus on database design and optimization
• Writing high-quality and readable code with effective test coverage
• Interacting with product and engineering stakeholders; articulating and resolving concerns about potential side effects of a feature
• Clear verbal and written communication skills
• Proven experience breaking down features into bitesize deliverables
• Experience working with relative estimations with a high degree of accuracy

Responsibilities

• Fully own and deliver features from end to end, from requirements analysis, estimation, and project planning, to data modeling and feature delivery
• Debug production issues across the entire stack
• Participate in rotating engineering support
• Coordinate with QA to ensure quick bug resolution on critical issues
• Ensure high percentage of test coverage across the codebase
• Proactively communicate progress to our product team and leadership
• Learn our customer workflows and nuances within the early childcare industry
• Occasionally attend user interviews and onboarding sessions to give support and receive feedback directly from customers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience utilizing concurrent systems and patterns in Elixir or Erlang/OTP
• Previous experience with Phoenix LiveView
• Previous experience with the design/development of REST and GraphQL APIs
• Previous experience working with early stage startups
• Previous experience developing complex SaaS products
• Working with a distributed team

Benefits

• Health benefits offer 100% coverage for employee premiums and 80% for dependents
• WIFI, Employee Wellness, and co-working space reimbursements offered to all employees
• A flexible PTO plan, paid holidays, and mental wellness days
• Highly competitive parental leave policies, eligible to qualified individuals after 6-months of employment
• An autonomous workplace that prioritizes health and wellness to ensure our employees can produce their best work while achieving their personal and professional goals
• A highly collaborative work environment with a variety of team bonding opportunities