Full-Stack Software Engineer

The Opportunity

We are searching for a Full-stack Software Engineer to build end-to-end features that enable our web and mobile applications ( in the future! ) to bring innovative, effective, personalized, and scalable solutions to our clients.

What You’ll Do

• Projected Division of Responsibilities: 90% contributing code / 10% collaborating with stakeholders and mentoring.
• Builder: Leverage a self-starter mindset by taking a product concept and building the feature end to end.
• Product thinking: Work with Product and Engineering leadership to scope new features and plan the engineering roadmap.
• Mentorship: Support other members of the team through mentorship, lunch and learns, and more.
• Continuous Learning: Be a flexible contributor, learning new skills as required and solving a wide variety of engineering challenges in different areas.
• Leadership: Lead new feature initiatives spanning all parts of our stack, ranging from frontend redesigns to building tools for data insights.
• Operational Practices: Help set operational best practices and tech standards as we rapidly scale our user base.
• Engineering Culture: Contribute to improving and building a considerate and inclusive engineering culture.
• Our tech stack: MySQL, AWS Lambda, Node.JS, React, Amplify.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-stack software development experience building end to end features in a complex web system
• 2+ years of frontend experience working with React or similar front end frameworks
• 2+ years of backend experience working with relational databases

Nice to Haves

• Experience working with NodeJS/express
• Experience leading multiple new feature initiatives
• Experience working on HIPAA-compliant applications in the healthcare space
• Experience with SQL databases such as MySql, Postgres, or similar
• Experience with AWS services

A Successful First Year May Look Like:

• Lead the development of new features which may include building new React Components to display your gut health in fun and personalized ways!
• Collaborate with the team to scale the tech stack based on the growing user base.
• Ownership of a component of the system, or a significant piece of functionality.

Benefits

• Competitive equity compensation structure: we don’t have “founders” and “early employees” – only founding team members. As a founding member, you will be granted shares instead of options (on top of other generous benefits)
• Healthcare insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• 401k
• Unlimited PTO
• Remote-First Company: While our founder is based in Austin, TX, we have a really diverse and international team from the midwest, east coast, Europe, and South America. As long as you can work within 3 hours from the 9-6pm CST timezone, it doesn’t matter where you live.
• Tremendous growth opportunity and autonomy are given, we’re a high-growth startup.

About Us & More

• Crazy ambitious mission: we’re reinventing how we should think about pregnancy and infant wellness, leveraging all the exciting research in the early-life microbiome space. This is an opportunity to have a trajectory-altering impact on humanity
• Feels like family: we have a grown-up, thoughtful culture but we love having a playful side and a sense of humor
• ‍Lots of room to experiment, iterate, and build: we have a huge vision and you’ll have the opportunity to grow rapidly and influence the strategic direction of the company (and we have 2+ years of runway to make that happen)
• Transparent culture: we do the right thing: by the team, users, stakeholders. When you have complete trust in your teammates, you can be much more open and move faster 😉

Interview Process

• You’ll meet with our CEO to get to know a little bit about who she is, why she started the company, and what the short and long term vision of the company is.
• Next, you’ll meet with a technical advisor to go through a technical interview.
• You’ll also meet with the tech and product team where you’ll get to see what we’ve built so far and get to know your potential teammates.
• We will ask you about your work dev experience and talk about React, ask you to build a page in React, and just talk through how you’re handling state and a chance to show off some of those front-end skills!
• No DS and Algos! Not going to waste your time as they aren’t needed for this role. If you are a wizard at reversing a linked list that’s great, we just need beautiful React components that render quickly and don’t overload the database with API calls 🙂

*If interested, please apply through AngelList and complete the following form: https://tally.so/r/wdWW5D. *

Some candidates may see the list above and feel discouraged because they don’t match all the items. Please apply anyway: there’s a good chance you also have important skills we’ve missed! We are committed to diversity and building an equitable and inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and experiences, and we’re taking steps to meet that commitment. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, underrepresented people of color, LGBTQ+ people, veterans, and people with disabilities.