Senior Software Engineer

TL;DR

🤔 Short Description: Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience contributing to software companies.
🏌️‍♂️Three Core Skills: (i) Strong written communication skills and can explain complex technical concepts to non-engineers; (ii) Production experience with a major cloud service providers; (iii) Familiar with data structures and algorithms, profiling and optimization
🗣️ Language: English (our working language is English)
📌 Location: Remote 🌎 (between GMT-2 & GTM+2)

Who we are

detech.ai is the most comprehensive (and only) Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Platform that allows companies to keep innovating and delivering features fast without sacrificing reliability and performance.
We do this by productizing and democratizing SRE practices, such as the definition and management of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) that allow teams, even non-technical ones, to have a clear understanding of the health of their IT applications, to make data-driven decisions about when it's important to improve reliability and to alert on-call engineers the right way.
We are backed by top tier investors like Techstars NYC, TheVentureCity and Shilling Capital Partners, which makes us well positioned to scale globally!
We are building the next generation of DevOps and SRE tools. Something so simple that even your grandma could use!!
To achieve this, we believe that an inclusive and diverse culture are mandatory! This is why we want to encourage people from different backgrounds to apply to join our team!
Join us, and help us build a top notch company and product, that helps companies worldwide and that scales like a rocket 🚀

What makes detech.ai unique?
We strive to make an impact and to make a change in the entire industry. We plan to do this by democratizing the access to SRE practices to companies of all sizes, to help them innovate and deliver new features fast (as they should be doing) without sacrificing software reliability and user experience.
To get there we are focused in hiring hungry, passionate and driven people who share our values. Here they are below:

• We move fast and with focus
• We are passionate about what we do
• We always go above and beyond
• We work as a team to grow and succeed
• We always focus on outcomes to our users, not on output
• We value and respect everyone

Ok, so what is the Senior Software Engineer role all about?

This is an incredible opportunity to be one of the first engineers at detech.ai and shape our trajectory. You will experience what being at a scrappy startup is like. You will be empowered to identify opportunities that will help us grow and own it. What you'll be doing one day could be radically different the next. But here's what you'll be doing now:

• Leveraging the latest technologies to make a product that simplifies Cloud Operations for tech companies around the globe!
• Building a performant web application for Site Reliability Engineers to create Service Level Objectives to make sure their product is providing incredible user experiences.
• Helping architect core parts of our infrastructure from the ground up in a reliable way.
• Scoping, designing, implementing, and owning end-to-end feature sets.
• Improving performance and address scalability limits
• Defining the development standards, processes and guidelines at detech.ai
• Teaching and learning from the other team members to make sure the team is growing together
• Owning meaningful parts of our service, having an impact and growing with the company

What about the person we are looking for?

Must have
You have at least 5 years of experience contributing to a software engineering team.
Proven production experience with a major cloud service providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Strong written communication skills and can explain complex technical concepts to non-engineers.
You are familiar with data structures and algorithms, profiling and optimization
Passion and ability to work well in a fast-paced, rapidly changing, and ambiguous environment.
You value code simplicity, performance, and details
Nice to have
You are familiar with Agile methods.
You have strong experience in any backend language. (we are using Python)
You have experience on AWS or GCP
You have already worked in a startup.
Can empathize with the challenges of running software in production and are eager to solve them

What is the Tech Stack?

Web App:

• React.js framework for the front-end.
• Python & GraphQL

Data Pipelines:

• Kafka
• TimescaleDB
• Airflow
• Python

Both:

• PostgreSQL, MySQL & Redis
• AWS
• Terraform for infrastructure as code
• Github, Slack, Notion
• Gitlab for CI/CD
• SonarQube

What do we offer?

🗓️ Start date: as soon as possible. If you want a date, it would be yesterday!

📌 Location: Remote. We plan to open offices early next year in Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹 and in New York, United States 🇺🇸. If you want you will be able to work from there.

📜 Full-time contract.

👩‍⚕️ Comprehensive private health insurance (currently available for people living in Portugal, but we can explore the possibility for people in other countries).

🍛 Rewarding food subsidy (currently available for people living in Portugal, but we can explore the possibility for people in other countries).

🛩 22 paid vacation days per year.

⏳ Flexible working environment. There are no fixed office hours, only deliverables.

💪 Being part of a growing team in one of the most high-paced startups in Europe, with plenty of room for personal and professional development.

🤘 A young, driven and ambitious team that knows when to work but also when to have fun (company events, weekly lunches, beers😀🍻, etc.).

What is the application process like?

1 → You apply below!

2 → You have a phone screening

3 → You have a People Experience interview to figure out if your experience and profile are relevant for the role we are looking for

4 → You have a technical interview where you go through a technical challenge where to prove that you have the necessary skills for the job you will be doing

5 → You have a cultural fit interview with our Founder & CEO, Jose

6 → If you are a fit for the job, you will receive the final offer

Either way, we will get in touch with you in less than 48 hours and let you know what we thought about your application. So go ahead 🤘