Frontend Software Engineer
Role and Responsibilities
As a Frontend Software Engineer at thatDot, we are seeking someone who understands the crucial role that a well-designed user interface plays in user success. The ideal candidate has experience building highly scalable, low latency interfaces in the presence of large amounts of visual data. As a fast-growing team it is important that you can successfully collaborate with developers, architects, and product managers, ideally in an early stage company environment.
Job Requirements
- Strong experience with frontend technologies (React, Bootstrap, JavaScript/TypeScript)
- Able to rapidly learn and apply new technologies
- Hands-on experience designing and developing scalable, high performing and fault-tolerant applications
- Familiarity with functional languages and ability to use it pragmatically (ideally Scala)
- Demonstrative understanding of functional reactive programming
- Interest and background in distributed systems
- Experience in Scala, Java, or other strongly typed JVM languages
- Understanding of concurrency in the JVM
- Automated unit testing and end-to-end testing tools
- Expertise in measuring, evaluating, and tuning application performance
- Nice to have: familiarity with Akka or the Actor-model
- Nice to have: experience using Cassandra (esp. in large clusters)
- Nice to have: experience using Kafka
Day to day, your role at thatDot will be:
- Learn. We value curiosity and share a desire to continuously learn new things, including from each other.
- Collaborate. As a fast growing team, we must communicate and work together to achieve goals. That includes both within teams and across our small, dynamic team.
- Write. Clarity of thought is best reflected in clear documentation. We document our work in ways our community of backend software engineers will want to engage with.
- Represent. Advocate for the needs of our users and contribute to the community discussion on product direction and uses.
Location
Support for fully-remote and in-person collaboration as it works best for individuals and the team. Some of our team is based in Portland, Oregon, but we are a remote-first company.
What We Believe
Work:
- About more than just a paycheck.
- Should be intellectually engaging.
- Should provide the opportunity to learn and grow.
- Short-termism in tech is bad. It’s worth building lasting relationships.
- Punching a clock or counting hours is bad. Results > Hours.
- It’s a big part of our lives, but it’s not all there is.
Creativity In Work:
- Work should be fun!
- Knowledge work: Coding is the easy part. Figuring out the ideas is hard work.
- Our mental model is really what we’re building when coding. Communicating is an expression of your mental model. First think clearly, then help someone else share your thoughts.
Hiring:
- Plan to teach us something about the cool work you’ve done in the past.
- Let us teach you something about the cool work we’re doing now.
About thatDot
thatDot is a growing company that specializes in solving high-throughput data streaming problems (entity resolution, streaming joins, ingest pipelines, incremental computation, pattern matching, etc.) using graphs.
- Designing and maintaining protocols in distributed systems
- Implementing new features in our querying engines and actor-based graph interpreter
- Creating high-throughput back-pressured streaming pipelines
- Ensuring horizontal and vertical scalability
Quine, our core technology, is a streaming graph interpreter that makes it easy to find complex patterns and anomalies in massive data streams and trigger action immediately. Built on native streaming graph technology as the result of 7+ years of DARPA-funded R&D, this hot new technology makes it easy for infinite datasets to be efficiently analyzed in real-time. Quine powers many key use cases in cybersecurity, fraud detection, data pipeline engineering, infrastructure optimization, and a long list of others.