Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Fountain's growing team as a Software Engineer and lead a team of 3-4 developers. You will guide your team through product maintenance, enhancement, and strengthening, collaborating with product managers, designers, and other engineers. Success requires a proven track record with enterprise products, strong leadership, and a solid technical background in frontend/backend development. The role involves working in a globally distributed organization and making decisions with autonomy. Fountain offers a unique work environment with flexible work arrangements and various benefits. Apply even if you don't meet all requirements.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• Demonstrated experience in a product-oriented software development
• Experience leading engineering teams
• Strong technical expertise in software development and architecture, and cloud-first solutions using some of the following technologies: React, TypeScript,TailwindCSS, MUI, Vite, Vitest/Jest, Playwright, Storybook, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL or equivalent SQL based technology, Redis
• Ability to work independently and confidently, even in dynamic situations and with limited information
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, in English, to facilitate effective collaboration with the team

Responsibilities

• Plan and take responsibility for delivering improvements to your product
• Lead, train, and coach your team members
• Design, develop, test, and maintain product features and enhancements
• Collaborate to enhance core stack technologies and architecture
• Review and collaborate with other developers' work
• Ensure the quality, reliability, operations, and security of your product
• Collaborate closely with the product team throughout the product life cycle
• Implement and maintain the stack using best practices and current pragmatic boundaries
• Provide clear reports on scope, planning, and team members to your superiors

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in B2B SaaS startup environments and remote international settings is strongly preferred
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, serverless architectures, high volume architectures, API strategies, MongoDB, AWS, micro-services, web security, and Agile methods is highly desirable

Benefits

• Competitive health plans
• A retirement plan
• Flexible vacation policy
• Paid holidays
• Monthly lunch stipends
• Annual allowances for ongoing education related to your profession and career advancement
• Home office, cell phone, and wellness reimbursements