Senior Backend Developer

About HqO

As the leader in workplace experience technology, HqO is revolutionizing how people connect with each other and the places they work right from the palm of their hands.

Composed of an award-winning app, analytics suite, hybrid work tools, and a flex space management system, the HqO Workplace Experience Platform empowers top employers and commercial property teams to create personalized experiences that engage and delight the people at their properties and inform data-driven decision making.

Active in over 200 million square feet and across 25 countries, 57% of the Fortune 100 rely on HqO to build meaningful relationships with the people in the workplace every day.

We’re backed by some of the world’s most prominent VC and real estate companies, and growing rapidly across the world. We’re driven by our core values of Let’s Go (Learning, Excellence, Truth, Service, Goodness, Ownership) which define our culture and push us to do our best work every day.

If you want to join a stable, fast-growing, and highly collaborative and supportive team that is at the forefront of workplace transformation, we’re the company for you.

We build the digital experiences that elevate physical office space.

HqO has momentum and is looking to add the right talent to our strong, skilled team. We’re a smart, mobile, early-stage company with an entrepreneurial culture and you can have a direct impact on the future of our business, starting now.

We engineer products for both consumers and enterprises that are equally critical to our value proposition. In addition, we are evolving our technology into a true global platform for integrating thousands of service providers to address the needs of this emerging space.

It takes superior execution and problem-solving skills to make this work. This is where you come in.

Responsibilities :

• You will work to design systems and API’s that power HqO software that people love to use every day.
• You will be responsible for providing technical leadership and defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure
• You will write code that meets high quality standards and delivers desired functionality with a focus on application performance
• You will develop, maintain, create testing strategies, and participate in design discussions for our API’s written primarily in NodeJS and hosted in AWS
• You will work with product management to translate requirements and vision into a prioritized list of user stories and deliver to required timelines and quality standards
• You will act as a mentor to the engineers in your squad and lead technical discussions to uplevel our technical approach
• You will troubleshoot bugs and other issues and work with the right team to resolve them on a quick timeline
• You will learn new tech! In addition to AWS, Terraform, k8s, NodeJS, etc. You will have the option to grow full stack (learning React) or full cycle (mastering kubernetes and terraform) or both as a member of a full stack team

Qualifications :

• BS in Computer Science or related area of study
• You have 5+ years of relevant work experience in a full stack or backend development role, preferably with a SaaS company creating web services at scale
• Mastery of modern JS frameworks like NodeJS and Nest, including deep understanding of architectural principles, specific tools of the trade, and their strengths and weaknesses
• Expertise in relational databases and managing schema migrations
• Significant experience with AWS and or relevant cloud technologies
• Experience in client side JS frameworks like React, Redux
• You are a strong collaborator who is transparent about progress on tasks, seeks feedback early and often, works effectively with the team to deliver on engineering estimates
• You have a natural curiosity about how things work

Bonus Points :

• Worked with team-wide Containerization Tech Docker and Kubernetes
• The ability to write comprehensive test suites at all levels of our technical stack
• Experience with Go and Postgres
30+ days ago