Senior Software Engineer
About the role
A full-stack software engineering role at Proven Group involving JavaScript, React/Node, cloud platforms, and leadership responsibilities within a remote, fast-growing company disrupting the skincare industry using AI and data.
Responsibilities
- Full-stack web development, writing and reviewing code in JavaScript in applications built in React/Node
- Operate as an engaged member of the team - leading meetings, providing input on technical design documents & project plans, pairing with other engineers to work towards a solution, etc.
- Design, estimate and review new and refactored software services on the platform. Take ownership for quality of design and implementation of software components to ensure that they run securely, reliably, and at scale.
- Work with internal tech teams to identify and build platform elements required to support key product features.
- Collaborate closely with product, design and growth to conceptualize, design, implement, test and deploy new features for our user base.
- Identify and execute on opportunities to improve the software development lifecycle and processes.
- Learn about new technologies and discuss potential solutions to problems.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to other members of the engineering team.
Qualifications
- Hands on experience with running modern web stacks (Node.js, Typescript, React, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Redis, Kafka)
- 5+ years of direct industry experience or a MS in CS or related field + 1 year industry experience
- Solid computer science foundation and coding skills
- Experience with Java or C/C++
- Ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability and scalability
- Well-versed in modern cloud platforms, like AWS, and their associated technologies
- Experience with Agile software development and tools like JIRA
- Strong communication skills, eager to learn and teach
Skills
Benefits
- Work flexibly - fully distributed with employees in CA, NY, IL, FL, & DC
- Unlimited paid time off
- Exclusive employee subscription discounts and SWAG
- Comprehensive health insurance (health, vision, dental, FSA, dependent care)
- Industry-leading 401k match
- Company-wide events & outings
About Proven Group
PROVEN is using AI, data and personalization to disrupt CPG
Proven is a data powered skincare company that creates personalized skincare products based on more than 47 factors about an individual's skin, genetic background, lifestyle and environment. Our formulations are rooted in the largest beauty database in the world, the proprietary Skin Genome Project, built in-house by Proven's cofounder Amy Yuan, a computational physicist from Stanford. The database has won MIT's AI Technology of the Year award and encompasses more than 20Million consumer datapoints and thousands of scientific articles on skin. Our challenge now is to tell the story of Proven, and share our industry leading personalized skincare products with the world.