Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

Overview

Job description

The Senior Software Engineer will join the team responsible for designing, developing, deploying, debugging, maintaining, and testing software solutions (e.g., products, tools, or systems) for Shift4’s built-for-cloud Lighthouse Business Management System (“Lighthouse”) used by 10,000’s of restaurants, hotels, e-commerce merchants and other businesses in the US (soon the rest of the world).
As a Senior Engineer, you will be joining a small, dedicated Scrum team. We value openness, growth, responsibility, and teamwork, and we hope that you have the same attitude.
In addition to transforming business intelligence for Shift4 customers into actionable insights with a single click, Lighthouse provides:

• Remote point-of-sale (“POS”) management for Shift4’s SkyTab POS Android/Cloud POS platform;
• Cloud-delivered reporting & analytics;
• Labor management and scheduling;
• One-click deploy of online ordering and table reservations;
• Reputation and social media management;
• Marketing tools that manage campaigns w/automated email marketing;
• API for integration to 3rd-parties (e.g. UberEats, DoorDash);
• Customer database with email capture from Shift4’s SkyTab platform (www.skytab.com);
• Quick access to monthly credit card statements, chargeback notifications & 1099’s.

The tech stack includes:

• Node.JS (Sequelize ORM, Express web framework, Yarn package manager, Mocha, NYC & Istanbul (test code coverage), Node Security Package, Nest.js);
• Web UI Stack (React, Ember, Typescript, Semantic UI, SASS);
• Continuous Integration/Devops (GitLab, Docker compose, Kubernetes);
• SaaS Services used: DataDog, Sentry, Twilio.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside other Software Engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices as they relate to the project and general software engineering concepts;
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Business Analysts, QA, and other team members to achieve creative solutions which satisfy business needs, goals, and objectives within a Scrum framework;
• Ensure the service uptime through participating in the on-call rotations and the production support process, as well as monitoring the application performance and addressing bottlenecks;
• Grow the technical maturity and capability of the team by driving improvement, facilitating knowledge sharing and proactive mentorship;
• Help grow the maturity of the team dynamic, suggesting process improvements, work distribution strategies and keep the team aligned technologically;
• Drive large-scale technological initiatives, ensuring the maintainability, scalability, robustness and security of the designed solutions;
• Drive technical cross-product collaboration by designing cross-component architecture, actively maintaining the technical discussion and helping coordinate engineering efforts between teams.

Requirements

• Solid experience in building commercial software;
• Deep knowledge of Javascript and related tools like Node.js, Nest.js, Ember.js and React.js.
• Extensive experience working with SQL databases (PostgreSQL, Redshift, Athena, OracleDB, MSSQL etc.);
• Extensive experience with design of distributed systems and large-scale user-facing applications;
• Fluency with the concepts of OOP, design patterns and SOLID principles;
• Experience identifying and addressing issues in the application performance;
• Experience working in an agile software development lifecycle (SDLC) by designing, developing, and deploying working software through analysis of functionality as defined by a Product team;
• Comfortable and experienced identifying and implementing non-functional requirements, writing clean code, of good quality;
• Proficient with testing work-in-progress deliverables to make sure they meet acceptance criteria and functional requirements as defined by a Product team;
• Demonstrated ability to work well in a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team environment;
• Ability to efficiently collaborate with a geographically distributed team, making heavy use of various virtual communication tools and methods.

We offer

• A growing innovative company with a friendly atmosphere;
• Social Responsibility Initiatives;
• Creative, people-oriented, encouraging working environment;
• We also have our library, and anyone can order new books;
• Cutting-edge technologies and tools;
• Office in the city center with parking for cars, bicycles, and scooters;
• Private health insurance;
• Additional vacation days for each year spent with us;
• Solid salary and annual bonuses for the achieved results;
• NYSE: FOUR Restricted Stock Units award based on your seniority;
• Employee referral program.

The salary range for this position is 5500-7500 EUR / gross. The exact salary will be determined based on the candidate’s experience.

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.