Description
Who is Recruiting from Scratch:
Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more.
If you are a fit, the team will reach out to you about this role or any others that may be a fit for our clients.
Meet The Teams
Our client's teams are all united in a mission of helping small businesses grow with confidence, which is no small feat. It takes a village to exceed customer expectations. Meet the teams (or as we call them, clusters & pods) they are hiring for!Benefits:Help small businesses attract and retain the talent they need to grow by enabling their employees to confidently take care of their health and wellbeing, as well as their family’s.
- Growth:Enable sustainable growth for the company and its customers.
- Payment Experience:Help businesses get the most out of their finances, to sustain their success today, tomorrow, and in the future.
- People Management Tools:Empower high growth startups seamlessly hire, onboard and manage employees at scale.
- Shared Experiences & Services:Owns the platformization for the primarily web productsWho You Are- You will work closely with senior engineers to scope, design, and build new features and functionality in this area. As a staff engineer, your responsibilities also include coordinating and participating in engineering efforts across teams, including scalability, performance, and modularization efforts. You will work primarily in Ruby on Rails and/or JavaScript/React, but may employ other technologies where appropriate. You should have a deep understanding of technology that goes beyond the ability to use these tools.What You Will Work On
- Work collaboratively with other engineers, product managers, and designers
- Lead complex projects or changes that will benefit the entire organization
- Keep our code healthy and follow good practices, and motivate other engineers to do the same
- Provide guidance and support growth in other engineers across multiple teams
- Build features and functionality that our customers use directly, typically in an iterative fashion taking into account user feedback
- Own the technical direction of an evergreen initiative operating as a start-up
Perform other related duties as assigned
How You Will Do Your Work
As a Staff Software Engineer, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following:
*Good judgment - *the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.
- *Resourcefulness - *taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what’s in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better.
- *Teamwork and communication - *putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism.
- Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking.-
- In addition, all of the team members focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:
*Camaraderie - *Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others. - *Openness - *Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
- *Grit - *You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
- *Integrity - *Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
- Simplicity - *Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”Qualifications*
- Minimum of 8 years of professional hands-on experience
- Demonstrable experience leading engineers without formal direct reporting relationships
- Strong systems architecture and coding/scripting ski