Staff Engineer

Staff Engineer

Storable is looking for a Software Engineer to join its Platform product team! As an engineer for Platform, you will be responsible for designing and developing Platform subsystems to support our highly trafficked self-storage software.   We enable our clients to DO MORE and worry less by building trusted relationships, delivering innovative technology solutions, and providing an exceptional, worry-free experience.

Our teams reinforce our Development best practices, provide actionable data, automate as many processes as possible, and ensure our offering is well integrated across all our products.

You will utilize our tech (Facility Management Software + APIs) to ensure the Platform experiences are compliant.    You will be a key decision-maker in the technical direction Platform takes its products, and you’ll be considered a leader within the team. You will be joining an experienced engineering team to help come up with innovative solutions that will help self-storage operators, big and small, market their business and stand out in a competitive industry, as well as helping consumers find the best deals possible to fit their self-storage needs.

About Us

Storable Platform is the leading online Platform for the self-storage industry. The Platform network includes more than 30,000 facilities and offers consumers the ability to find, compare and reserve self-storage units within their area. Platform provides a suite of industry-leading web marketing tools for self-storage operators and has been chosen as a preferred partner by more major online brands than any other self-storage company. We also work closely with our facility management software partners (such as SiteLink and storEdge) to provide smooth move-in experiences for operators and customers alike.  We are an all-remote workforce.

What you’ll do every day:

• Participate in the entire software development life cycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Work closely with product managers, project managers, and other stakeholders to define requirements and deliver high-quality software applications that meet business needs.
• Ensure the software applications are scalable, reliable, and secure on the AWS platform, including following best practices and coding standards.
• Develop and maintain a strong understanding of the technical architecture and design of the software applications, ensuring they are optimized for the AWS platform.
• Continuously learn and adopt new services, tools, and methodologies to improve the software development process and increase efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including other developers, architects, and DevOps engineers, to ensure the software applications are integrated with other systems and services.
• Develop and implement strategies for scaling and optimizing AWS applications for performance and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security and compliance requirements are met for the software applications on the AWS platform.
• Monitor and troubleshoot application performance and ensure issues are resolved in a timely and effective manner.
• Mentor new and developing engineers on the team
• Driving the technical direction of our products to help us create business value in new ways
• Continually monitor system stability and performance and suggest improvements where necessary
• Enhance our practices and procedures to reduce redundancies, streamline development, and make the team more efficient
• Create unit and integration tests to validate the development work automatically
• Share your knowledge with the rest of the engineering team to help grow and mentor the team

What you need to bring to the table:

• Must-haves:
• Bachelor’s degree in a computer-related field or work experience equivalent
• 10+ years of experience developing applications
• Consistent track record of being a leader and key contributor on multiple projects.
• Proven hands-on design and implementation experience in high-volume, high- performance real-time systems.
• Strong experience developing and designing using the NodeJs or C#
• Experience working with JavaScript / ReactJs or any frontend technology
• Good Exposure to Microservices, API gateway
• Experience developing and designing REST and/or SOAP APIs
• Good understanding of containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong experience with relational database and writing and optimizing queries (preferably Postgres / MySQL)
• Understanding of Ruby / PHP / C# is a plus
• Strong grasp of responsive web design, HTML, and CSS
• Strong exposure to DevOps and understanding of CI/CD
• Passion for mentoring engineers to produce elegant, maintainable code
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work in a team environment and collaborate effectively with other stakeholders.
• Strong experience with Agile software development

Other information on our stack:

• Microservices architecture exposing REST APIs deployed using Docker on AWS
• Backend services are written in NextJS on Node.js  
• Amazon Web Services: EC2, S3, SNS, SQS, Lambdas, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Redshift

About Us:

At Storable, we believe storage operators should have one partner they can trust to help you get the results they need for their business. That’s why we’ve built the industry’s first fully integrated platform that offers facility management software, facility websites, marketing programs and services, payments, and deeply integrated tenant insurance capabilities all in one solution. 

We leverage our platform in combination with our over 25 years of storage industry expertise to help our thousands of storage customers achieve their tenant experience and operational efficiency objectives every single day.

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