Staff EngineerAugust Venture Talent

August Venture Talent, a startup-focused recruiting firm, is serving as talent advisor to the founder of a well-funded B2B software startup in Boise, Idaho. (Relocation assistance is available.)

We're looking for someone with exceptional experience as a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to join our client as one of the first five team members.

You will play a critical leadership role in the architecture and engineering of our client's product and broader technical platform.

We are building this engineering team with the philosophy of hiring the smartest and most seasoned talent, all working together in Boise, and equipping each of those people with cutting-edge AI development tools to kill the drudgery of low-level tasks, unit tests, and documentation.

Help to capture the long-term vision for our product roadmap, and work with teammates to convert that into a step-by-step plan for how to sequence the building of our product and technical platform to support it.

Assist with standing up our AWS datacenter systems in the cloud to support the product and platform.

Design and engineer back-end services and front-end features and user experience for the product across web, desktop and mobile.

Engage with users and customers to understand how they think, what they need, and how to build the best product to serve them.

Work with teammates to set standards for writing code that is scalable, manageable, reliable, and testable.

MEASURABLE OUTCOMES:

●     Stand up AWS infrastructure

●     Build out database schemas

●     Build, test and deploy the back-end services and front-end functionality we need to ship our beta release

●     Polish, revise, and iterate until we can ship our launch release

• Ability to set technical vision and standards for peers, and drive improvement in our use of technologies

• Functional breadth of knowledge across many areas of the technologies we are building in, and is self-driven in expanding knowledge when necessary

• Mentors others in developing problem solving expertise, and assists them with appropriate technology choices

• Contributes to architecting sustainable, self-healing systems and features that are fault tolerant, and instrumented for ease of troubleshooting when a fault occurs

• Consistently keeps teammates informed when shipping changes and making decisions that impact them

• Strong knowledge of our business objectives and product strategy to inform engineering decisions

• Shows interest in new technologies not immediately needed

• Understands the intricacies of some systems beyond the ones they are personally involved with; able to serve as a domain expert for the areas of primary focus

Our client is a highly successful founder launching a well-funded startup in Boise, Idaho. His previous company is well known for an outstanding culture and customer relationships. Several of the early team members became the company's top leaders as the business skyrocketed to becoming an industry leader.

Wow Our goal is to deliver 10x the value we capture, striving for 100x. It’s everyone’s job to wow customers and radically improve how they achieve results.

Craftsmanship We aim for nothing less than excellence. “Good enough” is not part of our vocabulary—we deliver “insanely great” work, raising the bar every day.

Intensity We thrive at an incredibly fast pace, prioritizing and achieving our goals with precision. Measuring success in days, we’d rather masterfully achieve two objectives than partially fulfill five.

Truth We value honesty, addressing challenges directly with the toughness to handle the truth and solve problems collaboratively.