Software Engineer - Ops Execution

Summary

Join Crunchtime as a Software Engineer II and play a vital role in developing new features and products for our enterprise platform used by top restaurant brands globally. You will collaborate with a talented team, utilizing our JSON, HTML5, Javascript, Backbone, React, Python/Django, MySQL, and Mongo tech stack. This role involves building customer-facing functionality, improving platform stability and scalability, and working in an agile environment. You will contribute to design and development decisions, maximizing velocity and minimizing risk through TDD/CI and DevOps best practices. The ideal candidate possesses strong communication skills, a collaborative spirit, and a deep understanding of software design fundamentals and Agile methodologies.

Requirements

• Ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts and information in English, both verbally and in writing, with clarity and precision
• Great communicator and an outstanding team player. Bias towards over-communicating and asking questions
• Desire to be part of a team, need to understand and shape organizational culture, and deep belief that the only way for them to be successful as an individual is for the team to be successful
• Curious and intentional about both mentorship and self-development
• CS/CIS/Systems Mentality
• Adoption of CI, DevOps principles, and a focus on quality
• A deep understanding about request life cycles, system architecture, and user behavior
• Strong understanding of software design fundamentals and algorithms
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and associated tools & principles
• MySQL/Postgres/RDBMS experience. (Just using ORM's doesn't count)
• Ability to design and implement the right technical solution for the right problem at the right time (i.e. you don't over-engineer, but you do thoroughly consider the constraints)
• Someone fun, interesting, and likes to build and hack. Not just software!

Responsibilities

• Using our entire technology stack to develop new features and applications for the Zenput platform, including web and mobile UI’s, commenting and messaging, webhooks and APIs, as well as expand capabilities in our mobile applications
• Contribute to and influence design and development decisions
• Work in an agile environment, quickly and incrementally delivering value to our customers using tools from the SCRUM toolbox and using tight feedback loops with customers, products, and quality
• Maximize our velocity and minimize risk by using TDD/CI and other DevOps best practices
• Use Jira, Slack, and Zoom to communicate with your team and leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant (~full stack / web) work experience
• Specific experience with our tech (React, Django, Javascript, Python, NoSQL, Mobile Development, AWS)
• Experience working remotely
• Experience with DevOps
• Experience working with hardware (mobile devices, embedded hardware)
• Expertise in and experience developing enterprise products and web products at scale
• Experience with distributed systems, complex user interfaces, or other challenging engineering problems
• Open source contributions
• You’ve helped make your work environment fun, and it’s important to you
• You’ve built great relationships with coworkers in the past and want to keep doing it
• You care similarly about building great software and building great relationships with other people
• You’re interested in the technical problems we are solving
• You’re interested in the types of business problems we are solving

Benefits

• Great mission-driven team members from diverse backgrounds with a strong company culture
• Competitive pay
• Vacation days (with premium)
• Flexible PTO
• Paid company holidays
• Yearly team off-sites
• International travel opportunities
• Major medical, life, and disability insurance
• Savings fund
• Food vouchers
• Christmas bonus (30 days)
• Wellness benefits (Headspace, Ginger.io)
• Work in an open environment on solutions that are reshaping the way businesses operate
• Fun team events
• Ability to have a big impact
• Fitness reimbursement
• Learning & development funds