Software Engineer

Posted Sep 21

Who We Are

At Firstup, our mission is to improve the employee experience at every moment that matters, large and small. As the communication pipeline for the world's workforce, we now serve 40 of the Fortune 100 companies, reaching and connecting more than 17 million employees daily.

Our employees are experts in the employee experience, workforce communications and technology. 

Joining Firstup means joining a movement to make work better for every worker. As the world’s first intelligent communication platform, Firstup meaningfully engages employees at every moment from hire to retire, and delivers engagement insights to help companies support, promote and retain their talent. Our movement has taken root and is evident in our world-class customer base. Now we need your help. Ready to make a difference in the world?

Our Values

Every employee is an owner with responsibility and credit for our progress.

Leadership is in our build and we see change as a catalyst for improvement.

We win as a team, committed to help our coworkers and customers thrive.

Position Overview

We are looking for talented Software Engineers  to join our team! You will have opportunities to work closely with customers to solve real technology challenges. We are rapidly expanding and you will be responsible for delivering new solutions and services while constantly improving our approach to architecture, scale, availability and fault-tolerance. Engineering is a craft, and at Firstup we believe the internals of our technology should be as elegant as user experience. If there is a specific challenge you are looking for, we most likely have it for you.

Teams are empowered and supported to do their best work every day. We work in cross-functional autonomous product teams, so you'll interact with Product Managers, Designers, QA, and other engineers on a daily basis. You will partner with others across the company in shared codebases, and contribute directly to other services when needed. We iterate quickly to see what works and what doesn’t and follow the data to drive our strategy. We encourage you to take chances and fail because that is how we learn and grow. We are a distributed team and have been since day 1. We build solutions for distributed workforces, so we model our workforce the same way. In this role you really can work where you want within Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK!

Responsibilities

  • Utilise your real-world knowledge and experience to help us build scalable SaaS applications.
  • Write high-quality code (i.e., reliable, readable, efficient, testable, scalable, maintainable), provide quality code reviews, create comprehensive tests and quality documentation.
  • Apply broad, in-depth knowledge to develop and maintain large-scale multi-tenant services in the cloud.
  • Collaborate across teams on industry standards and best practices to help others solve complex problems.
  • Design future ready solutions and address architectural gaps.
  • Recognise opportunities and advocate for better performance and efficiency of software, systems, processes across teams.
  • Identify, analyse, and resolve system availability, reliability, and performance issues.
  • Encourage and promote ideas/opinions of others from diverse backgrounds and experiences.

You Have

  • 3+ years of experience building reliable and performant microservices.
  • Identified as a polyglot who is comfortable evolving as tech changes. May have experience working with: Ruby, TypeScript or JavaScript frameworks (ie: Node.js, React.js,) 
  • Proven experience developing on the front-end, back-end, and even the database. 
  • Technical depth and mastery in at least one software engineering topic (networking, security, serverless, event streams, etc.)
  • Excitement and drive to build beautiful, intuitive products.
  • Innate curiosity, and a desire to learn and teach.
  • Empathy for your customers and colleagues.
  • Eagerness to share your own ideas and openness to those of others.

You Might Have

  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm.
  • Experience with AWS.
  • Experience with ML, AI.
  • Experience working for an enterprise SaaS organisation.
  • Open-source contributions and history of side-projects.

Why Firstup?

Because you care - about people, the work you do, and the connections you make. Work is such a large part of life; it only makes sense to make it awesome.

If you want to engage brilliant minds in a high-growth and inclusive environment where ideas are rewarded regardless of who they come from, join us. This is a rapidly changing space so if you thrive on ambiguity, are hungry for a challenge, and have the guts to speak your mind, you could be a perfect fit.

We offer an excellent PTO program, great health benefits, a casual and friendly environment, remote work, and a leadership team who truly believes in your growth – both personally and professionally.

Firstup is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state or local laws.

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