Staff Software Engineer & Squad Leader
Fountain is the market leader in high volume hiring with solutions that enable customers to get ahead of their hiring goals. Fountain’s all-in-one software allows companies to find and hire the right candidates faster. Our automated and customizable platform provides a seamless applicant experience while ensuring organizations have pipelines full of hourly talent who are ready to work.
Hundreds of customers, including Stitch Fix, GoPuff, Fetch, and sweetgreen, use Fountain to hire over 3 million workers annually in more than 75 countries.
In 2022, we closed $185M in our Series C, led by Softbank and B Capital, which 4.5Xed our valuation. Join our growing team of collaborative, compassionate, and unconventional Fountaineers as we empower our customers to exceed their hiring goals and open opportunities for the hourly workforce.
Position Overview:
As a squad leader in the Fountain Worker Experience team, your role will involve guiding a product team of 2 to 4 engineers throughout the entire product cycle. This includes tasks such as planning, architecture, development, and maintenance. You will receive support from product managers, designers, and other software engineers.
To succeed in this position, it is important to have a proven track record of working with products, strong leadership skills, and a solid technical background in backend development, data structures, and architecture.
The Worker Experience team is organized into product squads, each responsible for independently developing new products using a product-led growth approach. New products are released every quarter, with a focus on product-based software development. It is important that you are comfortable with this approach.
The team operates with agility and speed. You will be expected to make decisions even when faced with uncertainty, and you will have the freedom to do so. In fact, you will operate with the autonomy typically found in early-stage product development, rather than in a larger organization.
This role requires collaboration within a globally distributed organization, spanning different time zones, continents, and cultures (including Western and Northern Europe, USA, South Africa, India, and more).
Responsibilities:
- Plan and take responsibility for delivering your product
- Lead, train, and coach your team members
- 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
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering
- Demonstrated experience in product-oriented software development
- Extensive experience in leading engineering teams
- 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, to facilitate effective collaboration with the team. Proficiency in French is also highly regarded
Nice to have:
- Previous positions in global startups will be highly valued
- Familiarity with event-driven architecture, 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 during East Coast time zones.
Salary Range: $220,000-$286,000
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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