AppSumo - Senior Software Engineer
AppSumo is the tool every entrepreneur should have in their arsenal.
AppSumo helps millions of entrepreneurs start, build and manage their business by partnering with and sharing industry-recognized SAAS tools. We have a track record of partnering with big industry names (think: Evernote, Dropbox, Mailchimp) and helping them become the next big thing.
We’ve used our incredible community and partners to launch Briefcasehq.com, a monthly subscription service that gives members access to 30+ of our most highly-rated software offerings. Entrepreneurs can quite literally start, grow and manage their businesses with our hand-picked suite of top-tier SAAS tools.
We’re looking to grow the company and need you, an experienced developer, to help us get there. We believe in full flexibility, working on awesome projects, and having fun at work.
With alumni from MIT, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and successful entrepreneurs, you’ll be surrounded by some of the smartest people you’ve ever had fun with.
REQUIREMENTS
Who You Are:
- You have a team first mentality
- You love solving problems
- You’ve launched a mini-app in your spare time or have an idea for a few apps
- You like learning things and probably are always reading a book or new blogs on the latest technology
- Local preferred, but remote okay
What Does a Typical Week Look Like?
- Meet with Head of Engineering to review and tweak roadmap
- Meet with Product Designer to see latest mock-ups and provide feedback
- Code features using test-driven development to be shipped the following week
- Test code in dev environment
- Ship bug-free code that delights millions of users
- Use data to tweak and iterate your features
Your manager’s working style?
- Flexible and coaching driven
- Encourages pushback and involvement in the strategic roadmap decisions
- Prefers autonomy and ownership and hates to micro-manage
- Like proactive development and minimal hand-holding
What Results Would You Drive?
- Drawdown 30% of our Engineering Roadmap over the next year
- Help reduce AppSumo’s site-speed to under 1 second
- Build a personalized machine learning product recommendation engine
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience developing
- Experience with front and back-end (full stack)
- Open to PHP, Java, Ruby on Rails, Node, Python, Go, or Data Engineers
- Experience with databases
- Working knowledge of Python or Django (or can learn it very quickly)
What's in it for you:
- We offer top pay for the industry
- You will be an individual contributor helping shape the future of AppSumo!
- Flexible work hours. Need to run an errand, hit the gym, or meet a friend for lunch? Go for it.
- Speaking of travel - we don't just not track vacation days. We encourage it (the best ideas happen outside of the office)
- Awesome office with paid lunches, unlimited drinks, snacks, and fully stocked bar
- Weekly massages
- Two company trips per year where we go to the local Hilton conference room to synergize our efficiencies. Just kidding. Last trip we went to a mansion in Mexico, hired a private chef and bartender, and sipped drinks in the infinity pool.
We don't care about your resume - we care about your passion. Good work leaves breadcrumbs on the web.
We'd love to see it.
If this sounds like something you'd be interested, send us your github or links to your favorite projects.
Let's do this :)