Vendelux is hiring a
Staff Engineer, Backend, Remote - Worldwide

Summary

The job is for a Staff Platform Engineer at Vendelux, a fast-growing SaaS company specializing in event marketing. The role involves owning technical strategies, shipping high-quality software, solving challenging problems, collaborating with various teams, mentoring engineers, and using modern technologies like Python, MySQL, Typescript, React, AWS, Snowflake, Dagster, Sigma, Datadog, Cloudwatch, PagerDuty, GitHub, and Docker.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building complex applications using a modern language (from Java to Typescript)
• Track record of shaping and shipping valuable features
• Track record of driving high-leverage improvements to infrastructure and process
• Judgment to take on technical debt and risk where appropriate
• Strong communication skills, especially written

Responsibilities

• Be the technical owner for features end-to-end, including the systems that power our data platforms and best-in-class web application
• Ship high quality, secure, and well-tested software that scales as highly distributed systems, using incremental deliveries based on data driven prioritization and decisions
• Solve interesting and challenging technical problems, coordinating technical roadmap deliveries across our product team and front end engineers
• Collaborate with our operations and revenue teams, as well as our users to respond, react, and plan feature delivery based on user feedback and analytics
• Identify opportunities to work across our stack, and areas of the business, to help meet the needs of a quickly scaling business and product
• Work closely with our leadership team to define our product roadmap and technical strategy, and continuously improve our development process and engineering practices
• Mentor a growing team of engineers through pair programming and code reviews, on performant, scalable engineering principles, with a focus on iterative delivery

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous startup experience
• DevOps or platform/infrastructure experience (or deep interest)