Senior Full Stack Engineer

at Octane AI

Remote (worldwide)

Octane AI is an all-remote and venture-backed startup seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer interested in developing the future of ecommerce.

You will have a major influence on the culture of a rapidly growing team, working for a company that is an employee-certified Great Place to Work. What you do here will really, really matter…seriously. For example, you will participate in establishing and evolving the Octane AI Engineering Team’s development processes. We aren’t there yet, so you need to be ready to roll up your sleeves and give us your ideas!

As part of this team, you will have the opportunity to grow and lead the charge in the application of Machine Learning in some of our ecommerce tools.How cool is that?

You will exhibit your exemplary skills on a team of 6-8, including a Technical Lead, other engineers, a product manager, quality assurance teammate and resident UI/UX expert. You will be an effective developer, collaborator and technical mentor – efficiently writing great quality code, providing insight and learning from teammates to enhance and support one or more of our amazing ecommerce personalization tools.

If you are still reading this, and see yourself as humble, data-driven, collaborative, curious and are OK with working in a startup environment – you might want to read further.

About us

Octane AI is developing conversational technologies that reimagine online commerce. Octane AI is the leading all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation for Shopify and Shopify Plus brands. We provide a unified platform for connecting, converting, and retaining customers. Our current and upcoming products democratize personalization and automation technologies previously only available to multi-billion dollar corporations. Our investors include General Catalyst, Bullpen Capital, Boost VC, and M Ventures.

How you will contribute:

• Support the morale of your teammates.
• Help mentor developers with less experience.
• Reflect, learn, and support your teammates in their learning.
• Collaborate and be an example of good collaboration.
• Improve your efficiency and bring ideas to the team to assist the team with operating more efficiently.
• Suggest and help implement best practices and team coding standards.
• Design and write components and applications. Write lightweight technical design documentation. Contribute to and aid in facilitating adherence to our technology roadmap.
• Break down and execute your work in manageable, value-added chunks.
• Test your code in a reliable, secure, and productive way.
• Participate actively in code reviews.
• Work with your manager to identify and close gaps in performance; participate actively in developing and executing your career plan.
• Assist with the production of incident debriefings for critical bugs, or outage episodes.
• Implement new integrations within Octane AI. You will be working with the Facebook API and the APIs of products and services that we will be integrating into our bots and the Octane AI platform. You should be adept at learning new APIs.
• Help develop and improve Octane AI’s architecture.

About you

• 5+ years writing scalable, reliable, performant and overall high quality components and applications in a SaaS-based, SOA context.
• You know how to apply Service Oriented Architecture concepts and have experience in writing microservices, with some application of serverless architectures.
• Heavy experience in Python, Javascript (React.js), and AWS infrastructure.
• Integrations experience: Ideally you have worked with the Facebook API, Redis, AWS DDB.
• You understand the basics of Machine Learning; ideally you have experience with its application.
• Please provide code samples or links to repositories with your code, along with an explanation of your programming philosophy. The more we can understand the way you think about code, the better. It’s not an issue if you can’t share a piece of code because of an NDA or something else.

Benefits

• The ability to work from anywhere in the world. Our team works from New York, Portland, Barcelona, Austin, Nashville, Canada, and more. Currently we have team members in 13 different countries.
• Excellent health benefits: health, dental and vision insurance for US employees and health benefits for select countries.
• 401(k) for US employees.
• Flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, parental leave, and sick leave.
• Paid-Paid Vacation – we pay YOU to take a vacation!
• Professional Development allowance.
• Fitness and home office credits. We want your workspace to be your happy place.
• Generous stock options.
• Growth and leadership opportunities. We invest in the tools and training that will help your long-term career.
• An amazing team of wonderfully driven and talented people.

Working at Octane AI

• The happier we are, the stronger our team is. Being a remote company allows us to work with flexibility. Need to pick up a sick child from school, make that 4pm workout class or run a last-minute errand? Don’t worry, life happens, and we support you.
• Your ideas are welcome. We empower everyone to share their ideas because the best ideas come from everywhere. From our new employees to co-founders, everyone has valuable experiences that help influence our product and team.
• Asking questions is a sign of strength. Don’t hesitate to ask for help if you feel stuck on a task or problem. Everyone needs a helping hand or fresh inspiration sometimes, and you’ll find that each one of your teammates is at your service.
• Bureaucracy doesn’t bog us down. We want you to feel empowered to talk to anyone on the team–anytime. We are all equally special and important people with tons to contribute, and living this is what gives us a competitive edge.
• We iterate quickly. Projects generally take days or weeks, not months. We have a collaborative environment where you can share a work-in-progress and get feedback quickly. We like to get our work into the hands of our customers and community as quickly as possible.
• Non-work banter makes our work better. We genuinely like each other, largely because we really get to know each other. Real connections breed deeper trust and support. So go ahead, share about your weekend, spark that impromptu trivia game, and go wild trying a fast parrot emoji-inspired dance in the all-hands meeting. You being you makes us, us.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger.