About Super.com We started Super.com to help maximize lives–both the lives of our customers and the lives of our employees– so that everyone can experience all that life has to offer. For our employees, our promise is that Super.com is more than just a job; it's an opportunity to unlock one's potential, where learning is celebrated and impact is realized.
We are more than a fast-paced, high-growth tech company; we care about our people and take career progression seriously. This is your career and our aim is to supercharge it through the people, the work, and the programs that fuel who we are.
About this team Super.com engineering has four full-stack product development focus areas: fintech, travel, earnings, and a superapp membership program to unite them all. Between them, our dozens of microservices and event-driven architecture handle 1000s of requests and events per second, ingest over 1TB of data per day and process over $1MM per day in sales. We have 80 engineers across our product development and infrastructure teams. We work in close partnership with Product Managers, Designers, and QA in an agile, fast-paced scaleup environment that respects work/life harmony. About this role As a Software Architect you will be the most senior technical individual contributor in our company. You will be the point person for solving the most difficult technical challenges our engineering org faces spanning frontend and backend web development as well as system architecture. You will drive our long-term technology roadmap and how to best leverage engineering to drive user and business impact in our fintech, travel, earnings, and membership products. You will predominantly work with React on the frontend, and a combination of Python and Node microservices on the backend. Other technologies you'll work with include Gitlab, AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, Datadog, Amplitude, and Snowflake. You will report to the engineering department head, and play a key role on our "techxecutive" team.
\n Challenges you'll solveOversee the technical direction for engineering org full-stack web development projects and system architectureRaise the bar for engineering through mentorship, leading by example, and contributing to technical decision making and guildsTackle high-priority, high-impact, and ambitious initiatives to propel our company and technical excellence forward, getting your hands dirty with POCs and working with others to productionizeReport into the engineering department head, but work largely self-directed and autonomously. Your role will be versatile, making use of your judgment to direct your efforts to the highest leverage use of your time in any given weekContribute to quarterly OKR planning and brainstorming to ensure we are prioritizing technical initiatives to improve engineering productivity and architecture robustnessHelp ensure our engineering teams strike the right balance between building quickly and building sustainably, and build vs. buy decision making About YouHighly motivated, interested in wearing multiple hats, and looking forward to working in a fast-paced scaleup environment with an emphasis on delivering business valueStill highly technical and have at least staff-level coding skills at this point in your careerA positive / enthusiastic person who enjoys solving problems, not just identifying themStrong technical and non-technical communication skillsGet excited about leading cross-team technical discussions and driving architectural change progressively and through influence 5+ years experience as a Staff Engineer or above (including CTO), working on full-stack web developmentAt least staff level coding ability and intuition for full-stack web development At least senior depth in JS and PythonDeep expertise in full-stack web development, system design, and using modern web technologies & cloud-based infrastructureHave been a technical lead (not necessarily people lead) for shipping major projects, and have worked with multiple complex codebases and across teamsHave mentored senior engineers, and look forward to continuing to do soHave experience owning, monitoring, and debugging production services, including high QPS servicesHave worked in a startup or scaleup environment Bonus PointsTechnical depth with our stack (python & node web services, react, postgres, kubernetes, aws, datadog)Data engineering experienceDevops experienceHave participated in engineer org knowledge sharing / tech talks, and/or led a guild to establish engineering best practicesHave been a key decision maker for build/buy decision making and SaaS selection Perks & BenefitsWe are a Remote-first company, we offer flexible working hours with complete work-from-home freedom and a guilt-free unlimited vacation policyEnjoy rewards and travel discounts using SuperTravelCompetitive salaries, equity options, full benefits from day one, wellness budgets, and paid development - we've got you covered!UberEats credits, meal budgets, special treats, and team lunches. When in the office, enjoy daily snack services and unlimited coffee, tea, and other drinksGuiding continued growth with Learning & Development, Diversity & Inclusion events, TED talk Tuesdays, and Lunch & Learn opportunitiesWe welcome new additions with a generous EI top-up, parental leave, additional vacation, and a flexible return-to-work planGame nights, Happy Hours, internal hackathons, team-building games, workouts, and more
\n$164,000 - $251,000 a year
As part of our compensation philosophy at Super.com we benchmark roles based on geographic location. The base salary range for this position is $164,000 USD - $251,000 USD. \nWe Believe in Equal Opportunity We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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