Staff Software Engineer - Application

May 24

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💰 $69.4M Series B on 2022-02

Description

• Drive the technical vision and architecture of Dune’s applications, ensuring they align with business goals and performance metrics. • Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, and other Engineers to ideate, develop, and launch robust features that enhance user interactions on Dune. • Optimize application performance to minimize downtime and latency, ensuring a seamless user experience. • Enhance the content browsing experience on Dune by implementing new features and improving existing ones. • Continuously improve various personas to elevate the experience for users creating and consuming queries and dashboards. • Write high-quality, well-tested TypeScript code focusing on scalability, maintainability, and performance. • Mentor junior engineers, leading by example in developing clean, efficient, and reusable code. • Champion best practices in software development, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a back-end engineer with a strong foundation in computer science and software engineering principles. • Demonstrated ability to lead projects and drive software development cycles from inception to deployment. • Extensive experience with cloud-based infrastructure management, specifically AWS and Kubernetes • Extensive experience in building scalable, high-performance web applications. • Expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and GraphQL, with familiarity with modern frontend frameworks such as Next.js. • Experience optimizing applications for performance, scalability, and reliability. • Excellent collaboration and communication skills, thriving in a fully distributed team environment. • An entrepreneurial spirit, paired with strong problem-solving skills and a hands-on approach to software development.

Benefits

• A competitive salary and equity package 🚀 The compensation for your role, both salary and equity, is top 25% of companies in the space. • Our employee equity scheme has world-class employee-friendly terms with a heavily discounted strike price (~90%) and a 10-year exercise window • 🏖 5 weeks PTO + local public holidays (that can be swapped to suit you) • 🧑‍💻 A fully remote-first approach with flexible working hours within a distributed team • Good health is important, so we offer Dune employees private medical insurance as standard 🩺 • We believe in paid parental leave 👶 to help you celebrate this important milestone, transition to your new life, and bond with your new baby. We offer 16 weeks to primary caregivers and 6 weeks to secondary caregivers, fully paid. Plus a 2-week part-time phased return at full pay to help you get used to your new (and slightly more complex!) schedule. • Regular offsites with the team in various exciting locations (so far in Tuscany 🇮🇹 Berlin 🇩🇪 Austria 🇦🇹) • On top of this 👆 each person gets a travel allowance to connect and co-work with someone or a team of people for a few days. • Stipend for setting up your home office / co-working space • Work with some of the best people you’ll ever get to meet! • And of course, you get some awesome Dune swag! ✌️😎