Principal Software Engineer, Backend

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As the leading workforce management solution for the skilled trades, Workrise makes it easier for skilled laborers to find work, and for companies to find in-demand workers. Workrise currently operates in wind, solar, construction, oil and gas, and defense industries. We’re growing, and we’d love to learn what you can add to our team!

Workrise is hiring a Principal Frontend Software Engineer to lead and influence talented software engineers, establish best practices, and drive architectural decisions as we continue to build the next evolution of our platform in a scalable, service oriented architecture.

Why Join us? Our Engineering team at Workrise is building the platform to power the largest skilled trades marketplace in the world. We have a relentless worker-first focus on providing better pay and more consistent work to skilled trades workers across the country. This equates to a better living for them and their families.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Play a key role in establishing best practices and driving architectural and complex decisions on larger initiatives
  • Work closely with other technical leads and principal engineers, actively looking for integration opportunities
  • Share and promote innovative ideas that will benefit the broader organization through brown bags, organization wide presentations, and direct conversations
  • Through collaboration with our Product team, contribute to the short and long term vision of our product while ensuring the quality of the team deliverables and maintaining the architecture/tech debt backlog 
  • Understand and own all aspects of the team’s features, evangelizing the team's deliverables, supporting large complex projects and features, including post-deployment ownership.

What you should have:

  • 10+ years of relevant professional experience with a solid track record of building, shipping and monitoring large scale systems in production
  • Expertise in building production grade microservices in the cloud
  • Expertise building RESTful APIs
  • Proficiency with multiple languages (Node.js, Javascript, .NET or Java) and datastore technologies (SQL and no-SQL)
  • Expertise with cloud computing providers, order of preference: GCP, AWS, Azure
  • Experience with pub/sub messaging and/or streaming technology like Google Pub/Sub, Kafka or equivalent
  • Expertise with CI/CD tools and strong fundamentals with testing and delivery methodologies 
  • Experience mentoring and growing other junior to staff level engineers
  • Strong in agile development methodology, with an understanding of what it takes to write software that is used by millions of people.
  • A love for writing robust, secure, scalable, and performant applications
  • A love and desire to learn new things, mentor other engineers, and lead by example as you push for engineering excellence

More than a job:

At Workrise you can feel good about your work and furthering our mission to serve those who do the hard work. We recognize that making an impact matters to you and we believe in providing an environment that fosters that ambition. We welcome you to develop relationships with coworkers by displaying our company values: Own the Mission, Learn and Grow, Solutions Over Ego, and Raise the Bar. In appreciation for your contributions, we support you with various health insurance plan options (including medical, dental, vision), flexible paid time off, and competitive 401k matching. 

As a world-class employer, Workrise is committed to providing an environment where any and all people feel welcome, respected, and free to be their authentic selves. We welcome applicants of all gender identities, sexual orientation, educational background, religion, ethnicities, veteran status, and citizenships. We’d love to learn what you can add to our team!

Who we are:

In 2014, we set out to create a better way to get work done in the Oil & Gas industry. The goal — to build the most reliable and cost-effective workforce solution, using technology to make it easier to manage and deploy workers at scale. Over time, we’ve grown to serve construction, wind, solar, and defense. 

We’re a Series E startup, backed by industry-leading investors Founders Fund, Bedrock Capital, Andreesen Horowitz, Baillie Gifford. To date, we’ve placed over 26,000 skilled tradespeople with over 500 businesses and are poised to grow exponentially over the coming months and years.

We’d love to share more through the interview process!


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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Product
  • Sales & Marketing
  • People Operations
    • JavascriptLanguages
    • KotlinLanguages
    • PythonLanguages
    • TypeScriptLanguages
    • ReactLibraries
    • ReduxLibraries
    • DockerFrameworks
    • GraphQLFrameworks
    • HadoopFrameworks
    • KafkaFrameworks
    • KubernetesFrameworks
    • Node.jsFrameworks
    • TensorFlowFrameworks
    • MongoDBDatabases
    • Neo4jDatabases
    • Google CloudServices
    • TableauAnalytics
    • FigmaDesign
    • MiroDesign
    • AsanaManagement
    • JIRAManagement
    • WebflowCMS
    • HubSpotCRM
    • SalesforceCRM
    • MandrillEmail
    • Hubspot, DemandbaseLead Gen
    • Google HangoutsCollaboration
    • SlackCollaboration
    • ZoomCollaboration
    • AsanaProject Management

Location

Workrise is located in the heart of downtown Austin right next to Lady Bird Lake. We're close to restaurants, coffee shops, entertainment, hotels, and trails.

An Insider's view of Workrise

What's something quirky about your company?

At Workrise, you'll find a multitude of quirks. One is our unique journey, where we introduced technology disrupt and redefine the entire Oil & Gas sector and committed to delivering exceptional benefits to companies and workers. We thrive on continuous evolution, constantly adapting to meet every challenge head-on as we Raise the Bar.

Logan

Senior Recruiter, Oil & Gas

How do you collaborate with other teams in the company?

At Workrise, we foster collaborative culture through open communication and open-mindedness. We collaborate with other by understanding each other's needs and the common goals we are trying achieve together.

Ravanpreet

Senior Manager, Engineering

How does the company support your career growth?

When I first joined Workrise I had a bucket list of skills I wanted build at my new career opportuny. In just three months, Workrise gave me the strength and support blow that list out of the water! I am so exced continue learning, growing, and getting hard work done!

Alyssa

Senior Designer

How would you describe the company’s work-life balance?

I’m part of a very distributed team and we have set core hours that we all try align with have overlap and collaboration as a team. Outside of these core hours, we have the flexibility tailor our schedules our individual working styles and lifestyles. We’re encouraged make time recharge and live balanced lives.

Chandhini

Principal Product Manager

What are Workrise Perks + Benefits

Workrise Benefits Overview

At Workrise you can feel good about your work and furthering our mission serve those who do the hard work. We recognize that making an impact matters you and we believe in providing an environment that fosters that ambition. We welcome you develop relationships with coworkers by displaying our company values: Own the Mission, Learn and Grow, Solutions Over Ego, and Raise the Bar. In appreciation for your contributions, we support you with various health insurance plan options (including medical, dental, vision), flexible paid time off, and competitive 401k matching.

Workrise is committed providing an environment where any and all people feel welcome, belonging, respected, and free be their authentic selves. We welcome applicants of all gender identities, sexual orientation and expression, educational background, age, religion, ethnicities, veteran status, and citizenship. We’d love learn what you can add our team!

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Quarterly engagement surveys
Hybrid work model
In-person all-hands meetings
Employee awards
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Mandated unconscious bias training
80% of people leaders trained through Workrise Leadership Academy in 2023.
Diversity employee resource groups
Diversity recruitment program
2023 Internship Program with 4 out of 5 members of underrepresented groups.
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Performance bonus
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Company sponsored family events
Fertility benefits
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Flexible time off
Floating holidays
Bereavement leave benefits
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
We provide an array of onsite refreshments, ranging from bars, chips, and fresh fruit cold brew and kombucha, ensuring a variety of options for our team.
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Mother's room
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Paid industry certifications
Personal development training

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