Trunk is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Remote - United States, Canada

Summary

The job is for a software engineer at Trunk, a company that aims to empower engineering teams by building tools to help them create high-quality software quickly. The founders have experience at large tech companies like Uber, Google, YouTube, and Microsoft. The role requires 5+ years of professional experience and specific technical skills in the mentioned tech stack. The company offers benefits such as unlimited PTO, work-life balance, flexibility to be fully or partly remote, competitive salary and equity, health/dental/vision insurance, short term disability, long term disability, life insurance, FSA, HSA, pre-tax commuter benefits, parental leave, and 401k.

Requirements

Knowledge in the mentioned tech stack: Frontend (Typescript, React, Redux, Next.js), Backend (Typescript, Node, AWS, CDK, k8s, gRPC), Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Kiali, Jaeger), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), CLI/Daemon/LSP (C++20, Bazel), VSCode Extension (Typescript), General (GitHub, Slack, Linear, Slite)

Responsibilities

• Have 5+ years of professional experience
• Know when to dive down the rabbit hole to figure something out and when to pull the plug and work around it
• See a problem and want to solve it (after maybe complaining about it)
• Are super productive. We’ll have tons of leadership opportunities as we grow, but right now every person at Trunk is coding all day every day and we have a flat structure
• Believe all code landing on main needs to be tested through unit and integration tests
• Are opinionated about how quality software should be written, but never drown out the thoughts of others
• Solve problems on their own but also know when to raise a hand for help

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Work-life balance
• Flexibility to be fully or partly remote
• Few meetings, so you can ship fast and focus on building
• One Medical membership on us!
• Competitive salary and equity
• 401k
• Top-notch health/dental/vision with $0 premium for employee and highly subsidized for family
• Short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance
• FSA, HSA, and pre-tax commuter benefits
• Parental Leave