Principal Software Engineer, Burq
On-demand delivery services
Open for applications
On-demand delivery services
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
Burq's mission is to turn the complex process of offering delivery into a simple turnkey solution.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor of science degree from an accredited university in Computer Science/Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent
- 5+ years of experience working professionally designing and developing highly scalable software systems
- 5+ years of experience in REST API design for extensibility and portability, development and, integration of data sources, other APIs, and databases
- 5+ years of experience in Javascript/Typescript
- 5+ years of experience in NodeJS
- 5+ years of experience in SQL and at least one of these relational databases: MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, PostgreSQL
- 3+ years of experience in NoSQL, preferably with MongoDB, or another non-relational DBMS
- 3+ years in HTML5 & CSS3
- 3+ years in one of these frameworks: ExpressJS, NestJS or a similar framework
- 3+ years in one of these frameworks: Angular, React, or Vue or a similar framework
- 3+ years working with architecting, building, and maintaining microservices
- 3+ years with AWS infrastructure or a similar cloud platform
- Expert in problem solving with data structures, design patterns, and algorithms, and how they apply to scalability of applications
- Expert in code refactoring, best practices, design principles and object oriented programming
- Expert in writing testable, efficient, and reusable code via unit testing and end-to-end automated testing in frameworks like Jasmine, Karma, and Selenium
- Expert understanding of asynchronous programming/promises and its application
- Expert understanding of user authentication, user authorization and security compliance between environments, servers, and other systems using Oauth
- Expert in debugging and solving issues
- Experience in CI/CD Pipeline creation and maintenance
- Fluent with Jira or a similar issue-tracking system
- Fluent in an AGILE/SCRUM development environment
- Fluent with code versioning tools like GIT and participating in code reviews
- Fluent in API Documentation automated generation and manual additions
- Highly capable in influencing and mentoring the software development teams while also taking the initiative on structuring the engineering culture from the highest level
- Skilled in time management with excellent verbal and written communication skills
- An excellent communicator, flexible team player, independent thinking, strong in documentation that has experience working with teams in different time zones
- Thrives in a fast paced global engineering environment with continuous innovation
- A willingness to go above and beyond to solve problems and tackle dynamic challenges
- Strong customer service and client facing skills and brings a positive attitude and energy
What the job involves
- You will influence the engineering organization, leaders, product managers, and the business in creating a developed approach for our API Integration partner workflow and overall software architecture
- You will mentor, lead, and help develop our engineering team into future leaders that are highly capable within our organization
- You will define and maintain the overall technical architecture of our platform
- You will develop innovative strategies, processes, and best practices that aim to reduce technical debt, increase reliability, and ensure on time and successful delivery of releases to our clients
- You will be planning the end-to-end development of software architecture, features and milestones ranging from high-level designs all the way to code implementation while participating in a fast-paced global agile environment
- You will communicate with a wide array of internal and external stakeholders to understand the business goal and technical work going into the integrations
- You will have a deep understanding of feature break-downs, story pointing, and incremental delivery of features
- You will work with new technologies in order to design highly scalable software which achieves our desired functionality
- You will create documentation and be a champion of our architecture as the company is rapidly growing
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Surviving within today's business landscape depends on meeting the on-demand delivery needs of B2C sales, something that can be difficult to achieve as a small business. Whilst last-mile delivery warehouses save small businesses from having to build their own delivery infrastructure, working exclusively with a single provider can greatly limit delivery options and stall a company's growth.
Burq provides an on-demand B2C delivery service platform which allows businesses to access multiple delivery providers for same-day delivery. The platform integrates directly with major sales platforms such as Zapier and Shopify, offering an analytic dashboard and delivery tracker across different modes of transport and providers.
Taking advantage of the growth in the last-mile delivery sector, Burq has scaled its operations, swiftly building a thriving customer base in the small retailer and startup sectors. Having received funding from investors such as Village Global, it is aiming to hire additional talent and increase its marketing reach to bring on new clients.
Insights
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back within 2 weeks
Company
Company benefits
- Option to work fully remotely or in-person
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Reimbursement for educational courses
- Generous Time Off
- Workstation setup stipend
Company values
- Owners: We hire a smaller number of high-quality, talented individuals and trust their judgment
- Builders: We are a very early-stage startup, which means there is an endless amount of opportunity to build! We value transparency and cross-collaboration when trying out new strategies, testing new ideas, and giving/receiving feedback
- Velocity: We move fast and with intention. We believe in transparency across our team in order to maintain our velocity and ensure we are not losing focus on the company's mission and vision
- Long-Term Thinking: As a small startup, there are endless opportunities that we can tackle in our industry. To ensure we effectively scale and continue to be a market leader, we keep our team focused on our critical initiatives, and provide every team member with full-autonomy over their work in order to meet our long-term goals
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Salman Habib
(Co-founder)Experience as Co-founder and President of the HelpED Foundation. Co-founder and CEO of Hellofriend since 2017.
Shaban Habib
(Co-founder)Experience as Business Data Manager for SunTrust. Co-founder of Hellofriend since 2017.
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Diversity & Inclusion at Burq
- At Burq, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status
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