(Full Time) Senior Software Engineer - Frontend at Criya (United States)
Senior Software Engineer - Frontend
Criya, United States
Date Posted: 31 Oct, 2022
Work Location: San Jose, CA, United States
Salary Offered: Not Specified
Job Type: Full Time
Experience Required: 3+ years
Remote Work: Yes
Stock Options: No
Vacancies: 1 available
About Criya
You’ll join the founding team and partner with our CEO Deb , a passionate Product leader, Technologist and a Creator with 150,000 followers, and CTO Danis , a serial entrepreneur, early Linkedin employee and experienced technology leader. Together, we’ll solve some of the biggest monetization challenges 50M+ creators face today.
The creator economy (a $100 billion market) suffers from the 99:1 problem - only the top 1% make the most money from brand endorsements, while the remaining 99% struggle to make a recurring income. We are here to empower the 99% of talented and passionate creators globally, with the opportunity to turn their passion into a livelihood.
We are a small team with a big vision and are growing rapidly. Funded by top-tier Silicon Valley VC and angel investors, we are well positioned to build a powerful platform for solo entrepreneurs across the globe.
About our stack and process
- Our backend is mostly in Ruby on Rails.
- Our front-end is mostly in React.
- Typesense powers our search engine.
- We're not religious about any particular technology — we believe in using the right tool for a given problem.
About this role
You’ll be instrumental in the design and development of Criya's client-facing frontend. It's an ambitious and complex product, with a ton of engineering challenges. Simplifying complexity and building technology that is robust and scalable is your North Star.
Criya is a product-driven company on a massive emerging market and we value good software development practices. You'll be working on a beloved product with a lot of usage and visibility in the small business community. You'll be working with bright, creative, energetic people who are extremely passionate about their work.
You'll be a key early software engineer working closely alongside our CTO, backend, and product teams. You'll own your work, to build, test, and iterate quickly.
Qualifications/Skills
- 3+ years of experience building web applications.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable code.
- Strong programming skills in Javascript is a must.
- Experience working with MongoDB/Postgres/MySQL and ElasticSearch/Typesense/Algolia.
- Strong understanding of JavaScript frameworks - React/Angular, Express.
- Experience working with open-source projects.
- Experience working with AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Render, DigitalOcean.
- Good English communication skills.
- (Optional) Understanding of CI/CD paradigm.
- (Optional) Basic knowledge of docker/kubernetes.
- (Optional) Have worked with Redis, RabbitMQ.
Benefits
- Compensation at the high end or top of market for a Series Seed/A startup, with full health insurance coverage and other standard benefits.
- Remote-first work environment.
- Flexible Hours & Location
- Unlimited PTO
- Health, vision and dental insurance
- A truly flexible, trust-based, performance-driven work culture.
- Once in a lifetime chance to be an early team member at a company that’s re-imagining a massive category.
Does this role sound like a good fit?