Senior Software Engineer

About the role

• Skills: PostgreSQL, Go, React, Google Cloud, TypeScript
• Languages - Go, Typescript, Postgresql
• Frameworks / Infra - Encore, Next.js, Vercel, GCP, Rende

About you

We are looking for a startup-focused and experienced software engineer, who is keen on solving the real-world problems in an industry ripe for innovation.

• You excellent communication skills and think from first principles.
• You understand the start-up environment and embody "Move fast and break things".
• You are endlessly curious and open-minded to working in new ways.
• You can learn quickly and have the capacity to deeply understand business operations.
• You've made significant contributions in your previous roles.
• You have experience communicating directly to product users to come up with business and technical requirements.
• You have the confidence to operate autonomously and understand when collaboration is required to drive the project forward.
• You proactively keep up with tech trends and want the opportunity to implement simple but powerful technologies to drive the company forward.
• You'll be working closely with our VP of Engineering and domain knowledge experts to distill business discussions into technical requirements.

What you'll do

• Fully own our full-stack monorepo to ensure that the engineering team can maintain velocity while scaling.
• Design, develop and maintain our customer-facing app and internal backoffice tool.
• Discuss requirements directly with our tax team to vertically design new features from frontend to backend and everything in between.
• Drive architectural decisions and optimise efficiency across the tech stack.
• Collaborate with other engineers as well as non-technical colleagues.
• Keep a keen eye on the customer experience to proactively raise issues and deploy fixes.
• Ship new features and fixes quickly.
• Play a leadership role by consistently innovating and developing a culture of excellence.

Technical requirements

• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• 5+ years writing production-ready code for frontend as well as backend.
• React (Typescript) + Golang
• 5+ years writing SQL (Postgres) for query optimisation, migrations and analysis.
• Experience with serverless applications, containerisation (e.g. Docker) and CI/CD.
• Experience in managing cloud services like Google Cloud and AWS.

Bonus points

• Startup experience.
• Data science / analyst experience - turning big data into meaningful insights.
• Experience building machine learning systems with LLMs, RAGs utilising embeddings.

Technology

• Frontend: Typescript, Next.js, Vercel
• Backend: Go, Postgres, Encore.dev, Google Cloud
• Services: GitHub, Sentry, Stytch, OpenAI

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Company Benefits

• Remote friendly - We operate in a remote-friendly way, but enjoy meeting in person when it matters.
• Book subsid - We'll invest in your big juicy brains by giving you access to interesting reads.
• Option grants - Everyone shares in the future success of Caribou with our generous options.
• Custom equipment setup - We'll pay for the equipment you need to do your best work.
• AXA Health insurance - High quality health and dental insurance through AXA Insurance.
• Pension - We offer standard pension contributions to all employees.

Interview Process

• 15-30 minute intro call with Juan - CEO
• 15-30 minute call with Ryan - VP of Engineering
• 30-45 minute technical conversation
• 60-90 minute call involving a technical assessment
• 15-30 minute call to meet some of team and ask questions
• We make a decision - and share an offer if you're successful