Senior/Staff Backend Engineer

Series A, well-funded US start-up in HRTech space.

We're developing WorkHQ.com platform and an AI Recruiter product: https://airecruiter.com

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4. Customer value over tech excellency

Experience:

• Total: 7+ years
• 3+ years of backend experience with NestJS as most recent
• 3+ years of backend experience (NodeJS) in previous companies (NOT Express.js & MongoDB)
• 3+ years of Typescript Experience
• 3+ years of experience with PostgreSQL (NOT MongoDB)
• 1+ year of experience with GraphQL

Required:

• Experience building scalable, consumer-grade APIs.
• Previous experience working in a team larger than 3 people.
• Collaborative mindset with focus on iterative and fast delivery approach.
• Experience building data-driven solutions.
• Experience working in startups.

Nice to have:

• ElasticSearch experience
• Previous experience as Solutions Architect
• Previous experience as Team Lead/Tech Lead

Our tech stack:

Complete tech stack here: https://stackshare.io/boris-11/workhq

Current Team Structure (Europe, LATAM, Africa)

3 Senior FE engineers, 3 Middle FE engineers, 2 Senior BE engineers, 3 Middle BE engineers, 1 DevOps, 2 Data Engineers

Working Process

Scrumban - We plan Epic sized projects with 3-4 people, getting product specs, Figma designs.

Outcome of planning are design documents, architectural decisions by engineering team.

We try to deliver the Epics within 2-3 weeks. Measuring in complexity sprint points.

We have daily meetings and planning sessions.

Product - WorkHQ is an all-in-one recruiting platform that provides:

1. Database of 250M global professionals
2. Email and phone number lookup
3. Email outreach and sequencing, LinkedIn messaging, SMS texting
4. Applicant tracking system
5. Job Multi Posting
6. CRM Features
7. Powerful candidate search infused with AI
8. Chrome Extension

Recruiting well can set a company up for long term success, while poor recruiting can setup a company for failure. We are working on a bold mission to replace the current jumble of multiple expensive and confusing systems all into a single platform at an affordable price.

Engineering Culture (Values)

Work Hard & Act Mature - Every individual is mature enough to understand when to apply speed to their project and when to keep it paced and build a more solid solution.

Get Things Done - We expect everyone to deliver what they took responsibility over - end to end, meaning, it's only considered done when it's usable by all customers on production.

Ship It - We do not overthink what we're building today, we want to test it with real customers before building a proper solution. We don't develop emotional attachment to the code, but rather to solutions we build and iterate.

Zero Bullsh*t & Brutal Honesty - We're a group of professionals with friendly relationships who want to build cool stuff. We're not in a high school, we don't play drama or gossip. We share honest feedback directly during 1to1 or team huddle meetings.

Be Empowered - You are the product. Everything we ship is built by you. You are trusted and expected to make moderate product and design decisions in the face of ambiguity. You become the feature expert during development and very likely know the best solution. Even if we have to redo 20% of these decisions ... we still come out wildly ahead.

Team Cohesion & Culture - Help each other. Ask questions. Answer questions. Review PRs. Propose help. Check on your team mates. Help them test their solution. Volunteer to fix bugs. Take leadership over Epics. Help people who are off/sick to finish their tasks. Give feedback if someone is falling behind. This will dramatically improve your sense of belonging, help you feel safer and more appreciated and most importantly - you will build bonds with people you spend so much time with.

Trust for Transparency - You all work remotely and have the luxury of choosing your working hours, unlike people in the office. Provide the needed transparency on what you do during the standup, when you are stuck - ask for help instead of trying not to look bad ("Student fallacy") and waste time.

What we want to know as a bottom line is - when you are going to finish what you've started and commit to that date it if possible or adjust the estimations and expectations often and vocally.