Back End Software Engineer

The Role:
As Poplin’s Back End Engineer, you’ll report to and work closely with the Head of Engineering,
who is responsible for creating and driving the technical strategy for the user experience. You
will help champion the technology selection and best practices in Poplin’s app and web
development. You will help lead the way in bringing technical excellence and innovation to
Poplin’s codebase. You will spend the vast majority of your time building the Poplin product.
You must love to code, and want to spend most of your time doing so.

Duties and responsibilities:
? Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other
engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build world-
class products and features that our users will love.

? Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test,
experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving
feedback on product specs and mocks.
? Reviewing pull requests for code reviews
? Contribute to code
? Execute on the product road map, including ensuring that customers are matched with
high quality Laundry Pros, facilitating a seamless order flow for customers and Laundry
Pros from web or app, enabling recurring orders, geo-based dynamic pricing, expansion
to Canada, and more.
? Achieve and maintain world-class product velocity.
? Timely and consistent communication with company leadership, engendering trust and
confidence in code quality and product velocity.
Requirements
? Ideally, the right candidate has demonstrated organizational-wide impacting experience
building back end services, jobs, and workflows.
? Minimum of 8 years active coding experience. You are coding now and want to keep
coding.
? Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
? Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, driven, innovative, and biased towards
action in fast-paced environments.
? You love to build new things. You care about innovation.
? Strong communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote
environment and can discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical
colleagues and leadership.
? Can code in a multitude of languages but is highly proficient with Typescript.
? Well versed in backend and DevOps technologies such as containerization,
microservices, message brokers.
? Experience implementing and monitoring metrics for cloud services.
? Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
? Self-motivated and a desire to work in a high velocity, async environment.

Tech Stack:
Our tech stack is mostly TypeScript, allowing engineers to implement end-to-end functionality.
On the frontend we use Angular/Ionic and on the backend Firebase.