Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Responsibilities

Hi, I’m Chris, the Co-Founder and CTO at Navattic. I’m excited to open this position because it has many responsibilities I want as an engineer. As a full-stack engineer, you’ll take ownership over a large portion of our core products and own projects end-to-end. To ground it with examples, full-stack engineers at Navattic have:

• Implemented a feature that allows users to further customize the look and feel of interactive demos with custom fonts, margins, and padding. This project included reviewing customer requests, scoping where these components would live on our theme builder, and implementing the feature end-to-end.
• Improved the logic in our capture player so that the transition between DOM states is seamless. Because SVGs rely on stylesheets for their size and positioning, it was a non-trivial challenge quickly loading in new DOM states while properly formatting SVGs elements. Launching an improvement here helped customers create interactive demos that maintain a tight fidelity to their actual application.
• Built out a reporting dashboard that helps customers track aggregate demo activity over time. Importantly, this allows customers to see which demos are highest performing. We collect millions of analytics events at Navattic and it was an interesting technical challenge creating the data pipelines and performant queries that could surface this data to users in a matter of milliseconds.

These projects reflect what we’re accomplishing at Navattic: enabling non-technical users to instantly create beautiful interactive demos. We’ve abstracted away the challenging technical components to make sharing your product demo easy and accessible to all users.

We fortunate to have grown to 750+ customers (including Dropbox, Elastic, Mixpanel, Ramp and Digital Ocean), and we have great investors like YCombinator, 645 Ventures, and strategic angels.

One formality, we do require at least 1.5 years of experience as a full-time software engineer for this role.

Engineering Culture

Our engineering culture is motivated by our belief that a small talented team, given the right environment, can build high-quality software fast.

• Collaboration is Natural & Communication is Deliberate

Engineers at Navattic (and the team at large) are naturally curious, have deep end-user empathy and are earnest to collaborate. These attributes create an environment where collaboration happens naturally (we filter for it in interviews). We’ve found that extended periods of focus, combined with a bias towards action, are powerfully amplifiers of productivity at Navattic.

• Increase Leverage, not Team Size

We Built Navattic With The Quality, Breadth, And Depth That Many Customers Would Expect From Much Larger Teams Over Larger Time Scales. We’ve Done This Through Investment In

• Great developer tooling. We’ve built a CI/CD pipeline to facilitate rapid deployments. We’ve also built custom developer sandboxes to reduce time spinning up new environments and conduct performance tests.

• Building blocks to create powerful and customizable demos, fast. Our no-code builder is powerful, but easy to use (see an interactive demo) using modular components. Building with composability in mind is an essential part of our philosophy.

• Give Engineers Ownership & Autonomy

We, as engineers, find clever ways to solve problems, which amplifies when we deeply understand the problem. We do our best work as engineers when we had a deep understanding of the end-user and the business and ownership over the solution. Our engineering culture reflects this experience: engineers own projects end-to-end, from speaking with users, to UX design and ultimately, implementation. These are skills that we often don’t get to practice as engineers, and, at Navattic, we provide mentorship to grow them and help from the team where you want it.

Interview Process

At Navattic, Our Team And Interview Process Want To Help You Show Your Best Self. We’ll Dive Into Past Projects And Provide Additional Context On Navattic. Our Interview Process Is Three Rounds

• 30-minute introduction call
• A technical screen (take home task)
• Call with the founding team

You’ll meet the founding team and get the chance to show off your technical aptitude. If we don’t give an offer, we’ll provide feedback!

Your First Two Months at Navattic

We want an exceptional onboarding experience for every new hire. At Navattic, we spend a lot of time focused on building your confidence in our codebase and practices culminating in the delivery of a prominent, impactful feature. We’ll pair you with a peer who’ll guide you through your first tasks and be someone you rely on, from answering questions to pair programming.

Technology Stack

I’m sharing our tech stack with the caveat that we don’t require previous experience in it (but a love of typed languages is helpful 😀): TypeScript (frontend & backend), Javascript, Node.js, React, Apollo GraphQL.