Founding Backend Engineer
Company: Recruiting From Scratch
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: October 16, 2024
Job Description:
Who is :
Recruiting from Scratch is a talent firm that focuses on placing
the best candidate for our clients. Our team is 100% remote and we
work with teams across North America, South America, and Europe to
help them hire.
About Us
We the people (and the taxpayers) deserve effective government. But
the software powering government services is 20 years behind the
private sector. Our mission is to build modern software products to
help government serve communities better. After launching in April
2023, we now partner with government agencies in 7 states serving
200,000+ residents. We have raised $5.5 million in VC funding from
Work-Bench and Bienville Capital.
What you'll do
- Build a product that will be used at scale by cities, counties,
and citizens across the United States. Our product is the primary
workspace and system of record for our users - government staff
typically use it 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Additionally,
thousands of citizens use our platform to access government
services. You'll see the direct impact of your work and receive
immediate feedback with each new feature.
- Make an impact in an underserved, but societally important
industry. We deserve effective, transparent government, but the
overwhelming majority of cities and counties lack the modern
software necessary to deliver it. We are changing that.
- Learn how to build a company from zero to one. As employee #7
and engineer #2, you'll see the entire startup journey. If you want
to start your own company someday, there's no better way to
learn.
Technical challenges we are solving
- Building a that is powerful and easy to use, but flexible
enough to accommodate the unique processes of 80,000+ government
agencies in the United States (think: Salesforce for
governments).
- Enabling a Figma-style that helps governments easily
collaborate to review, mark up, and approve technical documents
such as building and development plans.
- Developing a flexible and powerful to automatically generate
official documents including permits and licenses for thousands of
unique processes (think: Canva for documents).
- Creating a that makes it easy for citizens to pay billions in
annual permit/license fees, property taxes, and utility bills
online.
Our Tech Stack
- is our fullstack framework
- Our front-end is written in React and TypeScript
- Our back-end is written in TypeScript with NodeJS
- We use GraphQL to communicate between front-end and
back-end
Who you are
- 4+ years of backend development
- You have extensive experience implementing backend features.
Some examples might include:
- Implementing Business Logic: You have extensive experience in
implementing intricate business logic in backend systems.
- Reducing Technical Debt: You've successfully tackled technical
debt by refactoring code, optimizing database queries for
performance gains, or implementing automated testing
frameworks.
- Scalability and Performance Optimization: You've played a
pivotal role in enhancing the scalability and performance of
backend systems.
- Security Enhancements: You've contributed to strengthening the
security posture of backend systems.
- Integration with Third-Party Services: You've integrated
backend systems with various third-party services and APIs.
- You have a strong product mindset: you love to ask questions
and are obsessed with deeply understanding customer journeys using
the product.
- You'd rather have a challenging adventure than "rest and vest".
You are excited about quickly responding to customer feedback with
feature updates.
- You're motivated by having a positive impact in the world
Nice to haves
- BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent
- Startup experience
Salary and benefits
Compensation within the posted salary band will be commensurate
with experience. All offers will include:
- Competitive base salary: $165,000-$200,000 base
- Equity / stock options
- Up to 100% of premiums paid by the company for medical, dental,
and vision insurance for yourself + partner
- Unlimited / flexible PTO
Location
The founders are both located in New York City and work in person
3-4 days per week at our office in Manhattan. We strongly prefer
NYC-based candidates, but are open to exceptional remote
candidates.
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