Meroxa is hiring a
Remote Software Engineer Backend
\nMeroxa is looking for talented engineers that are obsessed with creating intuitive, data-centric developer experiences. Currently to build real time data infrastructure, it means choosing between taking 6+ months to integrate a commercial product, 6+ months and your most skilled engineers' time to cobble together open source projects, or hiring a specialized team of experts at $200k+ per person to build and maintain your systems. We believe everyone regardless of expertise, company size, or available resources should be able to leverage real-time data infrastructure in minutes not months.\n\n\nYouโll play a critical role in enabling Meroxaโs growth by building highly performant distributed systems with an emphasis on resiliency, security, and scalability. You will also build the tooling and internal systems essential for other Meroxa engineers to monitor, debug, and safely deploy our software.\n\n\n\nIf you are interested in...\n* Addressing and solving complex problems at both an application and system level\n* Collaborating effectively with teammates, technical partners, and the open source community\n* Owning and managing all the phases of the software development lifecycle (planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support) and guide critical decisions correctly that fully consider software best practices, Meroxa's architecture, and customer requirements\n* Designing, building, deploying, and maintaining microservices optimized for high-availability, throughput, fault tolerance, & performance.\n* Challenging architectural choices we make in building platforms or products/services at Meroxa. Ensure technical decision making aligns with our brand ethos of ease of use and high developer productivity.\n* Teaching and mentoring other engineers to level up our collective capabilities and knowledge\n* Working in a culture of feedback, inclusion and engineering excellence\n\n\n...Meroxa is the place for you, so fill out the application below :-)\n\nYou will be a fit for this role if...\n* You have a strong technical background with software engineering and designing large scale systems.\n* You have extensive experience with languages such as NodeJS, Ruby, or Java and the willingness to learn new technologies (although our main language is Go, there is no hard requirement that you be an expert in Go. We do expect that you are able to pick up Go fairly quickly).\n* You have solid OOP and software design knowledge โ you should know how to create software thatโs extensible, reusable and meets desired architectural objectives.\n* You prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale. You prioritize building the right thing that provides the most customer value.\n* You work autonomously, are excited by new technologies, and will never back down from the challenges of scale\n* You listen well and internalize the best ideas from all over the organization, while also setting a vision that others are excited to get behind.\n* You work well cross-functionally and your co-workers at all levels and across all teams trust you.\n\n\n\nProjects you may work on:\n* Developing a data orchestration platform using our open source Conduit data streaming tool.\n* Resource that allows customers to write serverless functions to consume events from a data source in any language\n* Ensuring our platform can run on Kubernetes deployments in any environment(cloud native, on-premise)\n\n\n\n\n\n$120,000 - $200,000 a year\n\nBenefits we offer:\n\n\nCompetitive salaries - We know you're in high demand, so we aim to be in the top 10% of salaries based on what you'd make as a Silicon Valley engineer.\n\n\nRemote work - Work from where you want. We've been a remote first company from day one. Also, we supply whatever hardware and software you need to do your job from home.\n\n\nHealth, dental, & vision - Meroxa offers PPO and HMO plans for you, your family, or domestic partner. We pay 75% and you pay 25%\n\n\nUnlimited vacation - We know you'll love working at Meroxa so much that you'll want to stay heads down every day and night but seriously we want you to take the time you need to bring your best self to work.\n\n\nPaid parental leave - When you welcome a new baby, Meroxa encourages you to take up to 16 weeks leave as primary caregiver and up to 6 weeks leave as secondary caregiver, at 100% paid salary.\n\n\nAnd more... We're constantly looking at ways we can improve our employee experience through service offerings(401k, student loan payback, discount programs, self service training, mental health, etc...)\n\n\nAbout Meroxa:\n\n\nMeroxa was founded by DeVaris Brown and Ali Hamidi. We've spent years working together building the world's best PaaS experience for web apps at Heroku and want to bring that same magical experience to the data ecosystem.\n\n\nWe've been building our platform since early 2020 and are backed by some amazing investors(Root Ventures, Amplify Partners, Village Global, Drive Capital, and Hustle Fund) and angels who've been in senior engineering and leadership roles at companies like GitHub, Looker, Heroku, Datadog, Autodesk, WePay, and TheRealReal.\n\n\nMeroxa is an equal opportunity employer and celebrates diversity. If youโre smart and good at what you do, come as you are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Java, Serverless, Senior, Heroku, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n
$60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐
We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote