Senior Software Engineer

Who We Are

Founded in 2017, Arkestro is a rapidly-growing early-stage startup that is transforming the way every company in the world does Procurement. Our platform leverages state-of-the-art machine learning methodologies, combined with game theory and behavioral science, to enable top global enterprises to manage their spend. By optimizing transactions and providing deep insight into spend data at a massive scale, our customers are able to mitigate supply chain risk, increase efficiency, and achieve best-in-class cost savings without increasing headcount.

Join Arkestro on our journey to revolutionize procurement! Although we are a small startup, we have big dreams and potential. Our customers are some of the most successful and recognized large enterprise organizations in North America. We are seeking passionate individuals to work with our talented team to make an impact on our customer’s lives. If you are a creative problem solver looking for a challenge, or just want to shake up the procurement world, apply now! See Arkestro in action at arkestro.com.

About This Role

We’re looking for a strong Senior Software Engineer with a passion for engineering to join our Product team to help us scale our platform and deliver cutting edge capabilities to our customers. This person will be an integral part of the team that designs, builds and innovates our product. The right candidate will collaborate with a phenomenal group of software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and quality engineers to deliver and scale a transformational software product.

Technologies and tools we use:

• Frontend: React, TypeScript, AntD, Jest + React Testing Library
• Backend: Ruby, Rails, Node, Postgres, Redis, Sidekiq Pro, RSpec, GraphQL
• Workflow and Deployment: Github, AWS, Sentry, FullStory, Code Climate
• Technologies we’re experimenting with: Puppeteer

An ideal candidate has:

• Strong communications skills and the ability to learn quickly
• Experience with agile development methodologies and willingness to embrace changing requirements
• A performance mindset that encompasses client-side and server-side performance optimization and techniques
• Experience working with large datasets and building scalable frontend architectures that take into consideration HTTP requests, SQL queries and memory management
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, a strategic mindset, and a proactive approach to driving team success and achieving organizational goals. Leadership ambitions are a plus.
• Experience with Chart.js, Highcharts, D3 or other popular charting libraries
• 5+ years of experience building web applications using Rails, Entity, Spring, or a similar MVC framework
• 5+ years of working with SQL databases -- ideally ANSI-Compliant relational databases like Postgres & RDS
• 5+ years of experience using JavaScript & TypeScript to write Single-Page-Applications with modern web technologies and frameworks like React, Angular, Vue, etc.
• 5+ years of experience using HTML, CSS, and styling various kinds of applications for the web.
• 3+ years of experience being able to take wireframes or mockups and convert them into clean and semantic HTML and CSS with a focus on responsive design and performance.
• Experience with using Git for source control using Github.

Arkestro is committed to providing our employees with a benefits package designed to give you the flexibility you need to ensure a healthy life/work balance. Arkestro offers our employees great benefits and perks, including, but not limited to:

• Competitive salary and startup equity
• Medical insurance covered up to 100%
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Generous 401K matching
• Unlimited PTO
• We are highly supportive of flexible work hours
• We are a remote-first team, but we like to get together for team building, design sprints, and customer visits
• A one time allowance of $1,500 for home office supplies
• Annual budget of $1,000 for learning and development
• Diverse, inclusive, highly collaborative, and vibrant culture

Arkestro is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

Disclaimer

Please note this job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described and that additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands. Arkestro reserves the right to change duties, responsibilities and activities at any time with or without notice.