Bobtail is a company focused on removing inefficiencies in the supply chain to increase happiness. They aim to create a frictionless supply chain where companies succeed based on the value they create. The company values teams over individuals and encourages experimentation and iteration to constantly improve. Bobtail is currently experiencing high growth and is looking for a servant leader responsible for all software development activities.

Job Responsibilities:
• Contribute to the design and development of an enterprise-scale application.
• Debug production-level issues throughout the application.
• Collaborate with product management and other stakeholders within engineering (frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Develop features and improvements to the Bobtail product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Craft code that meets internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
• Conduct code review within the Code Review Guidelines and ensure community contributions receive a swift response.
• Recognize impediments to team efficiency (“technical debt”), propose and implement solutions.
• Provide mentorship for junior and intermediate engineers on the team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy. • Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Help to define and improve internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Confidently ship large-sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.

Job Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related engineering degree
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages such as NodeJS and Typescript, and overall system design
• Experience building enterprise software, event-driven microservices architecture, and distributed systems at scale
• Experience scaling engineering organizations and have a deep understanding of the importance of tools, processes, organizational design, and the culture of strong teams
• Experience managing a rapidly growing and distributed organization
• Expert understanding of software development processes and lifecycle
• Expert knowledge of agile methodologies and frameworks
• Excellent social and communication skills with the ability to be personable yet persistent
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a track record of a solutions-driven approach
• Experience with modern DevOps design and implementation
• Exposure to SDLC from reviewing requirements through to debugging complex systems in production
• Adept at working within SCRUM and Kanban workflows
• Strong theoretical fundamentals and hands-on experience designing and implementing highly available and performant fault-tolerant distributed systems

Job Values:
• Mission
• Communication
• Diversity
• Collaboration
• Iteration
• Teams over individuals
• Experimentation and failing fast
• Initiative and solutions-oriented approach
• Documentation
• Data
• Mental health and work-life balance
• Transparency

Benefits:
• Paid time off
• Work from home or wherever
• Monthly Mental Break Day
• Parental leave