Senior Software Engineer, Backend - GlossGenius : Job Details

GlossGenius is building an ecosystem enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. We empower small business owners to focus on being creators, not admins, by offering a range of business management tools including booking and scheduling, marketing, analytics, payment processing and much more.

Over 80,000 small business owners have chosen to rely on GlossGenius every day to run their entire set of business operations. Joining its powerful, intuitive platform with its vibrant, distinguished brand, GlossGenius is the ideal combination of a fintech, SMB software, and consumer company all in one.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend you will focus on contributing to our backend services that power our suite of products. Our backend engineers write and maintain our APIs, build the communication between our systems, handle data modeling, deal with events, and ensure we are capturing what is needed for our services to continue scaling as we scale to support hundreds of thousands of professionals booking millions of appointments and processing millions of payment transactions.GlossGenius has grown significantly, supporting tens of thousands of customers and seeing billions of transaction volumes on our platforms. As our customers continue to grow their businesses, we want to enable them to be more successful.

This role can be based remotely in the San Francisco Bay Area OR Hybrid in our NYC headquarters (Tuesdays & Thursdays in-office).

What You'll Do

• Own projects end to end, from design to implementation, managing complexity and working with stakeholders to think through areas such as business impact, reliability, operability, and security.
• Collaborate with product managers, product design, or other cross-functional stakeholders on roadmap initiatives, product ideation, and prioritization. Break down epics and projects to consumable size for the team and continuous deployment.
• Produce high-quality code that's easily testable, readable, and accounts for edge cases and errors.
• Architect tools, services, and systems using well accepted design patterns to allow for iterative autonomous development and future scaling.
• Uphold best practices and high standards for engineering and product quality in addition to mentoring newer team members to do the same.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• You have experience leading and owning end-to-end product development and impactful technology initiatives for organizations; you're able to break down work into manageable tasks for a team and partner with operational teams to roll out changes that affect their workflow
• You have experience working in a collaborative environment involving different functions, stakeholders, and subject matter experts
• You have a desire to work in a fast paced environment, a bias for action, a passion for self-improvement, and helping to elevate and mentor those around you

What We Work With

We are open to candidates who have worked in different languages but are open to learn.

• Ruby (Rails, Sidekiq), Kotlin (micronaut, jooq), GRPC, Protobuf, and Postgres for backend
• React-native for mobile
• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums partially or fully covered by GG
• In-person opportunities that are designed to help team members foster collaboration and build community (ie; working out of a co-working space, team dinners, and other team building activities)
• 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
• Dependent Care FSA
• Home office support

The starting base salary for this role in New York, California, and Washington is between $160,000-$210,000 + target equity + benefits. The base salary offered is dependent upon many factors including skills, experience, location, and education. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Additionally, this role is currently eligible to participate in GlossGenius's equity plan as well as a range of health & wellbeing, retirement savings, and other benefits within our total rewards offering.

At GlossGenius, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. GlossGenius is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.

Agency SubmissionsIf a resume or applicant is submitted to GlossGenius by a third party without a signed search agreement in place, it will become the property of GlossGenius and no fee will be paid, irrespective of whether the candidate is hired.

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