Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Join Fountain as a Senior Software Engineer - Backend

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer - Backend in the Fountain Worker Experience team, you will be part of a dedicated product team of developers working throughout the entire product cycle, which includes planning, architecture, development, and maintenance of the Fountain products. You will receive support from product managers, designers, and other software engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and take responsibility for delivering your product.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain product features.
• Collaborate to enhance core stack technologies and architecture.
• Review and collaborate with other developers' work.
• Ensure the quality, reliability, operations, and security of your product.
• Collaborate closely with the product team throughout the product life cycle.
• Implement and maintain the stack using best practices and current pragmatic boundaries.
• Provide clear reports on your product scope, planning, and team members to your superiors.

What You Should Bring

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Demonstrated experience in product-oriented software development.
• Strong technical expertise in software development and architecture, TypeScript, and cloud-first solutions.
• Ability to work independently and confidently, even in dynamic situations and with limited information.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, in English. Proficiency in French is also highly regarded.

Nice to Have

• Experience in B2B SaaS startup environments and remote international settings is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, serverless architectures, high volume architectures, API strategies, MongoDB, AWS, micro-services, web security, and Agile methods is highly desirable.

Location

You will work remotely from the US or Canada in the Eastern timezone.

Salary Range

$156,000 - $225,000 USD

Why Work with Us

Fountain offers an incredibly unique work environment. We employ a diverse team all over the world. Each Fountaineer is given the freedom to do their best work from wherever they choose. We also understand the importance of in-person connections and hold in-person meetings with your team and meet annually as an organization to build our relationships and focus on the future of moving Fountain Forward.

The benefits we offer in the United States include competitive health plans and a retirement plan. Some Fountain-wide perks offered to all employees across the globe include a flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, monthly lunch stipends, annual allowances for ongoing education related to your profession and career advancement, along with home office, cell phone, and wellness reimbursements. Fountain is a global employer, so some benefit offerings will vary from country to country.

Fountain is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status.