Senior Software Engineer - Backend (E5)

Position Overview

Join Fountain as a Senior Software Engineer - Backend, where you will be an integral part of the Worker Experience team. This role involves working with a dedicated product team of 3 to 4 developers throughout the entire product cycle, which includes planning, architecture, development, and maintenance of Fountain products. You will receive support from product managers, designers, and other software engineers to ensure success.

What You'll Be Doing

• 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

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

Even if you do not meet all the requirements above, we still encourage you to apply for this position. While we try to be thorough with our prerequisites, not everything about you as a candidate can be condensed into a list of bullet points. What do you have to lose?

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.

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