Senior Principal Fullstack Engineer (Django Expert)
Our customer is a computer vision-based platform for construction risk. They are a startup with a group of highly motivated entrepreneurs who are ambitious to build the future of
visual documentation and risk assessment for construction sites. With groundbreaking technology, we are reimagining how construction sites are built with more transparency, accountability, and safety in mind.
Technology and design is in our DNA and at the core of everything we do. An
engineering role with us requires an all-in startup mentality, a team-first attitude,
self-motivation, a strong desire to succeed, and building world class products.
Candidates should have the ability to contribute in all phases of the development and design process, work with a distributed team, and execute in an agile development environment while maintaining good dev-ops discipline. Their software engineers are strong in programming and problem-solving skills, computer science fundamentals (i.e., data structures, object-oriented design, and algorithms) and an energetic, driven group of people.
Responsibilities:
- Work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and design teams to build consistent and clear products for user experience
- Prototyping, testing, and iterating upon new features
- Execute in an agile development environment and write robust, highly tested, well-crafted code
- Contribute to the product development roadmap, code reviews, and have your code reviewed, and bring new technologies to continuously improve and innovate the software engineering process
Requirements:
- Minimum 6 years of hands-on experience in front-end software development
- Experience building Single Page Applications
- Extensive experience with JavaScript and web frameworks such as React/Redux, Angular, and Vue. React/Redux is a plus
- Strong familiarity with core web technologies such as CSS, HTML, and HTTP
- Experience building responsive layouts and UX
- Past experience in product oriented development: extreme attention to details and delivering a high-quality user experience in a lean development environment
- Experience with agile development processes (i.e., SCRUM) and the Git version control system
- Dedication to crafting clear and readable code
- Good verbal and written communication skills and problem solving skills
- A collaborative mindset. You are able to balance working individually and as part of a team
- Experience in a lead role or being a senior member of a technical team
- Experience architecting and re-architecting web applications to the evolving needs of the business
- Experience with cloud based development environments. Especially in AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, S3, Cloudfront etc.)
- Familiarity with Python and Django framework or basic backend development experience (Python, Postgres DB, Linux)
- Experience in working in an high-paced, goal driven early stage startup environment
- Experience with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD)
- Experience with test-driven development (TDD) practices and/or interfacing with test teams
What is it like to work with our customer:
- We are a team of entrepreneurs hell-bent on changing the world of construction and insurance
- We are a diverse group of passionate and motivated people and have worked hard to create a work environment where diversity and transparency matters. We have every intent to keep it that way
- We are on a mission for our technology to touch every construction site in the world and to help save lives. We are fully committed to this mission
- We believe in team-first and learning oriented attitude. We have crafted the strongest team of advisors in construction, risk, and real estate and are venture backed by world-renowned leaders in risk and InsureTech. Here you will have access to this experienced and diverse network of people
Our customer why:
- 3 people per day die on construction sites here in the United States
- The vast majority of these fatalities can be avoided by a better risk control process in place