GlossGenius is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer, Frontend in United States

Summary

The job is for a Staff Software Engineer at GlossGenius, a company that offers business management tools to small businesses. The role involves providing technical leadership, working closely with cross-functional teams, and influencing critical technical decisions. The position can be remote or hybrid in the NYC office.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, 3+ years of technical leadership experience
• Experience building products in a microservices environment, with breadth of experience across the stack, but are comfortable in a full-stack or frontend leaning role
• Excellent product instincts, think about our users first, and can root decisions in the business context. Experience shipping consumer facing products is 0 to 1 is a plus!
• Effective communication skills and experience coordinating across teams to ship critical products
• Experience with building a long-term roadmap and technical vision to tackle complex user problems, plus an ability to break it down for other team members to execute on
• Architectural and system design expertise in developing highly scalable and performant distributed systems
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different functions, stakeholders, and subject matter experts
• A continuous learner - learn and grow constantly to feed your passion for self-improvement and make those around you better
• Comfortable picking up new technologies (our team builds on Ruby, React, Kotlin, and React Native, and our stack will continue to evolve.)

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to a distributed engineering team to design new and enhance existing GlossGenius product offerings
• Advise the GlossGenius leadership team on key technology and product roadmap considerations
• Own problems from end to end, managing complexity, and engaging directly with stakeholders to think through everything from business impact to reliability and operability, to security; always approaching situations with a bias to action
• Work with Product Managers to prioritize roadmap initiatives and be involved in the product ideation process
• Continually drive our engineering standards (code reuse, documentation, testing, etc.) and levels of service forward
• Take high-level business requirements and develop the technical details behind them. Collaborate with Product Managers to write epics and projects and ensure they’re appropriately broken down and prioritized, well understood by the team, and sized correctly for continuous deployment
• Architect tools, services, and systems using well-accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums partially or fully covered by GG
• Fertility and adoption benefits via Carrot
• Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
• 401k benefit - employees are eligible to contribute starting day 1 of employment
• Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Dependent Care FSA
• Home office support
• Team Bonding opportunities - as a distributed team, being able to build meaningful bonds both virtually and in person is incredibly important to us! We are constantly evaluating how we accomplish this and currently, teams are given opportunities to gather in person throughout the year