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Technical Lead

Mavik Ventures

Technical Lead

Los Angeles, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    About:

    Fully integrated scheduling, payments and automated marketing platform, specializing in large multi-location chains and franchises. Our mission-critical software -- which includes in-store scheduling and online booking, client record management, email and SMS marketing, and a full point of sale for handling payments -- is used in every aspect of the customer journey.

     Come help us realize our vision of becoming the world's leading online scheduling and local commerce platform!

     JOB DESCRIPTION

     This is a full stack software generalist can work on strictly backend or be a full stack developer, doing anything it takes to solve problems and delight users both internally and externally. You will work closely with a talented team of UX designers and other engineers to implement and ship scalable and well-tested features in our highly available platform. You'll strive to create responsive pixel-perfect web UIs while simultaneously solving scalability problems and handling complex business logic. The application is used by millions of consumers and tens of thousands of employees each month to interact and transact with one another in the modern era. Engineers are responsible not just for writing code, but ensuring that it gets deployed and works properly in production.

    We have created a cohesive, collaborative team environment that works hard to deliver on our innovation roadmap and meet pressing customer commitments. We are looking for individuals who want to both learn and mentor others. While we work independently, we support each other through frequent code and design reviews, daily stand-ups, and pair programming which facilitates learning and reducing friction in our nightly release schedule.

     You should have prior experience developing high quality software and be excited about doing it at a fast growing company. You should also know how to have productive technical discussions and be ready to continuously iterate on features based on feedback from our analytics as well as user feedback.

     You will not only craft high quality software, but also help in other aspects of building a new company: Designing features, making good product decisions, and building a culture of excellence. We're seeking engineers who are ready to attack deep technical challenges as well as have an impactful role in product and company development.

     KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

    • Design, code, test, debug and document new and existing components to ensure that software meets business, quality and operational needs.
    • Drive and participate in code and document reviews, mentoring team in best practices.
    • Collaborate with peer organizations, devops, support organizations on technical issues and provide guidance.
    • Interpret and translate business needs to technical requirements and make accurate estimates.
    • Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes to ensure the highest quality and performance is achieved.
    • Work with team to troubleshoot code level problems quickly and efficiently.
    • Focus on scalability, security and availability of all applications and processes.
    • Manage technical roadmap and technical debt elimination, balancing time, resource, and quality constraints to achieve business and strategic goals and requirements.
    • Motivate and educate team members on coding standards and best practices. both within the team and as part of the architecture group.

     QUALIFICATIONS

    • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years building Single Page Applications; Ruby on Rails and Angular is a plus
    • Experience working with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL
    • Some experience with Memcache and ElasticSearch is preferred
    • Some experience with AWS products (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, ELB) is preferred
    • Comfortable writing test suites and specs in our test-driven environment
    • Experience with performance analysis and optimization across the stack
    • Self motivator with strong communication skills
    • Degree in computer science or a related field is preferred, but not required.