Senior Full Stack Engineer

The Opportunity:

At DataGrail, we believe that privacy is a fundamental human right. Individuals demand transparency and control over their identity and personal data more than ever before. With increasing demands for transparency and control over personal data, DataGrail is committed to transforming how brands manage data privacy.

We’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer who can help us execute on this mission. You’ll build products that deliver value to our customers, ensuring that individuals have the transparency and control they should over their privacy.

Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager on our Trust team, this is a true full stack role in which you will work alongside a small team of talented engineers, inspiring your teammates to produce their best work as a force-multiplier, while also demonstrating best practices in code, communication, feedback, and vulnerability. We offer a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and growth. We solve problems, celebrate wins, and are always looking for ways to iterate and improve.

The Skill Set:

1. Use your full stack software engineering expertise to:

• Operate in a Ruby on Rails and React w/ Typescript environment
• Work hands-on with AWS in a production environment
• Leverage your deep working knowledge with Postgres or similar DB technologies
• Design and implement platform-level technical solutions for product features on a day to day basis
• Build scalable, resilient, and observable distributed systems
• Independently scope milestone-based, extensible technical solutions as part of project planning
• Take ambiguous problems and break them down into clear, manageable parts
• Lead teams to improve code structure and maintainability by example
• Partner with your Engineering Manager and Product Manager to lead the delivery team in the collaborative development of new features
• Partner with Staff Engineers across teams to develop our guiding principles of engineering, focusing on technical direction

2. Strong and Effective Communicator:

• You consider the effects of work across multiple teams and proactively communicate and manage potential issues
• You identify team-impacting problems, suggest solutions, and drive resolutions in a collaborative remote environment

3. Bonus Points if You:

• Are familiar with CI/CD tools like Git, Github Actions, and Terraform
• Can use Figma for UI/UX design and specifications
• Are familiar with Python or similar languages

Within 90 Days You'll:

• Get to know DataGrail, our products, customers, architecture, and technologies
• Pair with other engineers to learn our codebase, and deployment process and to deliver new product features while resolving bugs
• Start to take ownership over new and existing feature development
• Contribute to discovery and technical planning for upcoming features and sprints
• Give and receive consistent peer feedback on quality of work, team contribution, and alignment with DataGrail core values

Within 180 Days You'll:

• Lead development of major features and platforms that are important for your team and our customers
• Be a go-to person for code reviews, technical designs and/or mentorship for engineers in your team or other teams
• Participate in the on-call rotation by triaging incoming questions and bugs, and helping lead the resolution efforts for high severity or high priority issues

Within 365 Days You'll:

• Play significant leadership role in the launch of new products and platform features
• Be the subject matter expert for certain areas of the product and you will use your business and technical acumen to ensure the projects in those areas succeed