Remote Software Engineer

Description:

• Whereby is a remote-first video meetings company with a vision of a world where anywhere works.
• The company values diversity and believes in the strength of every intersection of race, religion, ethnic origin, physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
• They are an engineering-centric business aiming to scale sustainably with beautiful code, an ethical approach to users and data, and an innovative opinion on new technologies.
• The role involves developing new capabilities, shaping the product and technical roadmap, setting ambitious goals, and collaborating closely with the team.
• Responsibilities include ensuring security, scalability, and reliability of the platform, improving user experience, contributing to the product roadmap, and fostering an engineering culture based on high-quality code, innovation, and diversity.
• The position requires working with Node.js, React, designing and managing APIs, adhering to high information security standards, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Success will be measured by leading and shipping new features, platform uptime and reliability, engineering efficiency, and peer reviews.

Requirements:

• At least 3 years of experience as a full-stack developer with a focus on back-end development.
• Demonstrated impact with full stack development in a SaaS product.
• Good knowledge of JavaScript development, particularly Node.js and React.
• Experience in designing and managing APIs.
• Value security and adhere to high information security principles.
• Enjoy working in distributed teams and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Develop code with proper documentation and structure.
• Strong ability to be self-driven, take responsibility, and see tasks through to release.
• Familiarity with operations (AWS, Docker, Terraform) or experience with Redis and websockets is a plus.

Benefits:

• Starting salary at £62,112.00 globally with no salary caps.
• Share options granted with 4-year vesting.
• Fully-remote position with a global and hours agnostic approach.
• Opportunity to work in a diverse and inclusive environment.
• Chance to work on a product used by millions of users worldwide.
• Growth opportunities beyond managing people with career progression tracks available.
• Background checks performed on certain roles.
• Legitimate posting with detailed information available on the company's open handbook.