Remote Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

at Amper

Posted 4 days ago 3 applied

Description:

  • Amper is a rapidly-growing IoT startup that helps manufacturers unleash their potential with modern software to run operations.
  • The company builds a simple but powerful platform that helps manufacturers reduce costs, increase visibility, and drive efficiency.
  • Amper's culture and products reflect a belief in keeping things simple and easy-to-understand, allowing for quick self-installation on any industrial machine.
  • The vision is to build the market-leading FactoryOS to enable cutting-edge operations, with investments in growth across GTM and product teams.
  • This is a remote-friendly role with the option to work from Chicago or San Francisco offices, supporting flexible work while valuing in-person collaboration.
  • The role involves growing the engineering team and looking for Senior Full Stack Engineers to build customer-facing and internal products.
  • Full-stack engineers at Amper work in various contexts, building large APIs and microservices, primarily using Python and React for front-end development.
  • Engineers will face challenges in distributed systems and performance tuning, and will be involved in product development alongside a Product Owner.
  • Ideal candidates will have a strong appetite for the unfamiliar, value helpfulness and humility, and be able to teach and learn from others.

Requirements:

  • Candidates must have 5+ years of professional software development experience, preferably in a SaaS or IoT environment.
  • Experience in designing distributed and highly-available systems, weighing trade-offs, and guiding others through implementation is required.
  • Fluency in one or more object-oriented languages (Python preferred), relational databases (including performance tuning and sharding), and distributed systems (including containerization, message queues, and parallelism) is necessary.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.
  • Experience working in an early-stage, growing company is preferred.
  • Knowledge of DevOps tooling and practices (CI/CD, Monitoring) and experience deploying infrastructure (Infrastructure-as-code, cloudformation, ansible) are preferred but not mandatory.

Benefits:

  • Amper offers unlimited PTO with a minimum of 2 weeks.
  • A 401(k) plan is provided for employees.
  • Health insurance coverage includes medical, vision, and dental plans.
  • Employees enjoy a flexible work schedule.
  • The company offers competitive compensation, benefits, and opportunities for growth, with an annual base salary range of $170,000-190,000, depending on various factors.