Software Engineer

Summary

Join Mark43, a company empowering communities with innovative public safety software, as a full-stack software engineer. You will build and maintain cloud-based applications, collaborating with product and design teams. This role requires at least 5 years of experience with Java and React, along with expertise in databases, APIs, and cloud infrastructure. You'll work in an agile environment, contributing to a large and complex codebase. Mark43 offers a competitive salary ($115,000-$155,000), bonus opportunities, stock options, and a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, paid time off, and a 401k plan.

Requirements

• Have at least 5 years of professional experience using Java and React in production
• Be comfortable utilizing agile development and thoroughly testing your own code
• Write clear, concise code and intuitive documentation to help other engineers understand your contributions
• Have a deep understanding of databases, automated testing, Agile methodologies
• Have proficiency building and managing RESTful APIs
• Have deep experience designing and building out infrastructure for complex cloud-based software applications, preferably hosted in AWS or Azure
• Have knowledge of or prior experience with microservices architecture
• Have extensive knowledge of JavaScript and its many frameworks, HTML, CSS, and an interest in testing out new FE technologies
• Have knowledge of web architecture concepts including HTTP and REST
• Be authorized to work for any employer in the country in which the role is being hired

Responsibilities

• Spend time working with a Product Manager to understand requirements for a new feature
• Building features using popular technologies including but not limited to: Java, React, SQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch
• Improve architectural strategy of a front-end or backend area of the product to meet higher velocity needs created by our growing customer base
• Reviewed code submitted by other software engineers, and submitted your own code for review as part of our pull-request deployment process
• Spent time meeting with a Product Designer to explain technical constraints for a specific feature
• Collaborating with design and product teams to understand and document feature requirements
• Written clear, concise technical documentation to accompany your code that your teammates will trust
• Spent time testing out a new technology or taking part in a discussion on ways to improve our code base and engineering practices
• Nurturing an engineering culture that cares deeply about the quality of the code we write, while still working quickly to bring our technology to as many departments as possible

Preferred Qualifications

• Be humble, open, and curious
• Be attentive, active listeners
• Be resilient
• Be enthusiastic collaborators
• Be comfortable with uncertainty
• Be passionate about personal growth
• Be eager to help others

Benefits

• Target base annual salary range of $115,000 - $155,000
• Bonus opportunity
• Company stock options
• Full benefits package, including health insurance
• Paid time off
• 401k plan