Software Engineer

Nooklyn

Full Time · Tech

The Role

• Work across our stack from the front-end to our background processing queue and everywhere in-between.
• Develop, document and extend our own API to enable our iOS and web applications to consume data from our platform.
• Develop reliable integrations between our platform and 3rd party services through web-based APIs
• Extract, transform, and load (ETL) data from open and proprietary data sets in order to improve our reporting capabilities.
• Deploy a variety of skills and techniques to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks as we scale our web service.
• Review pull requests and mentor engineers on the team in support of their career goals and development of their skills as a software engineer.
• Collaborate with the team to gather requirements, design, and implement improvements to our platform.
• Participate in providing support for our customers by helping to triage problems they’re having and develop fixes when necessary.

Your Experience

(If you feel you check a lot of these boxes, but not all, get in touch with us anyway!)

• 5+ years of web development experience using a major server-side stack and relational database.
• A fluent knowledge of SQL.
• In-depth understanding of RPC API design and how to develop APIs that are reliable and performant.
• Ability to power through ambiguity and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic start-up environment.
• You enjoy being in a situation where you don’t know the answer and are driven to try and figure it out, even if it means going outside your comfort zone and making mistakes.

Extra Bonus

• Experience working on products in advertising or payment technology space.
• Experience building web applications with modern Javascript technologies, libraries and tooling.
• Comfort to dive into code bases you’re unfamiliar, like open source libraries, in search of the answer you’re looking for.
• Curiosity for data structures and algorithms
• Love curling up with a good book on design patterns
• You’ve gone through the apartment search process and are deeply opinionated on how we can improve it.

Perks

• Remote work environment
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Unlimited vacation day policy