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About Us:
The wholesale distribution trade is prepared for a revolution, and Proton is main the cost. The world depends on distributors to promote almost each bodily product, however regardless of its huge contribution to the worldwide economic system, this trade has been left behind by way of know-how. Proton is altering that. With AI-powered gross sales software program, we’re breaking by way of the complexity of promoting hundreds of thousands of merchandise and making it simpler for distributors to anticipate buyer wants. Our mission is to convey the distribution trade into the trendy age and the outcomes converse for themselves. Distributors utilizing Proton see 10x ROI, sooner new rent ramp-up, and happier gross sales groups.
In 2022, we raised a $20M Collection A backed by Felicis Ventures (buyers in Twitch, Shopify, Opendoor, and plenty of others) and Battery Ventures. This 12 months, we’re laser-focused on driving buyer progress. When you’re excited in regards to the alternative to put on a number of hats, and repeatedly be taught and experiment, now’s the time to affix the Proton group.
The Function:
Proton is in search of an skilled Senior Backend Engineer to affix our fast-growing SaaS group! Reporting on to the Director of Engineering, the Senior Backend Engineer will drive the technical growth of the Proton.ai product and platform. On this function, you can be working with the engineering group to assist us construct a scalable, customizable, performant and safe software.
We’re in search of somebody technical with a deep understanding and curiosity of recent tech stacks and methods that can assist us select and implement options that profit the way forward for our engineering.
Proton collaborates with Oyster HR to rent worldwide workers as full time (long run) contractors inside our firm.
Gross Wage vary is $50,000 – $70,000 USD yearly, primarily based on expertise degree.
What you’ll do:
- Characteristic Improvement: Spearhead the backend coding of latest options whereas serving to the Product group perceive complexity and tradeoffs. Creating throughout the complete full stack of our product, driving options from concept to manufacturing and quickly delivering worth to our prospects that makes an actual impression.
- Crew Collaboration: Be a part of a cross-functional group, together with software program engineering, infrastructure, backend, frontend, and devops, to offer architectural steerage, ensuring the stack choices being made help our future progress.
- Enterprise Customizability: Leverage your expertise with enterprise purposes to tailor our options to the distinctive wants of our company prospects.
- Efficiency and Reliability: Share your experience in constructing high-performance, dependable purposes, contributing to end-to-end structure and knowledge circulation discussions.
You will be an excellent match for this function if:
- Confirmed expertise as a principal engineer or comparable in startup environments, with a concentrate on constructing scalable SaaS options. 7+ years of expertise constructing and deploying scalable SaaS purposes
- 5+ years of expertise with backend applied sciences ideally Python or Go, however C# or Java are acceptable
- Observe document of profitable product structure choices and system enhancements with a big concentrate on safe coding practices and requirements to satisfy the wants of enterprise class prospects and their knowledge.
- Deep understanding of cloud-native applied sciences and ideas reminiscent of cloud suppliers, databases, software efficiency, scalability and safety
- Curiosity for brand new applied sciences. You’re somebody who actively seeks to remain knowledgeable in regards to the newest frameworks, software program developments, and instruments utilized by trade friends. You want contrasting and evaluating applied sciences to seek out why one matches higher for sure use-cases than the opposite.
- Expertise with enterprise purposes is very most well-liked.
- Distinctive communication abilities for conveying advanced technical ideas to numerous stakeholders.
Present Tech Stack
Backend
- Elasticsearch & Redis as the principle databases
- Actively migrating to SQL as major database
- API service in Python operating in Kubernetes
- Each day pre-computations run in Airflow
- Machine studying
- AI fashions – neural networks
- Machine Studying Eng targeted on experimenting with methods to enhance present fashions, constructing new fashions – coaching and growing fashions and deploying them
Frontend
- Vue.js 3/Nuxt 3
- Migrating Vue Element frameworks from ElementPlus/iView to Vuetify
- Docker and kubernetes to deploy
- Github Actions for CI
Whereas we’ve got a well-established tech stack, we welcome extremely expert builders who’re obsessed with studying and increasing their ability set. Do not have expertise with all the things listed right here, however wanting to be taught? If that’s the case, we encourage you to use!
Advantages:
- Aggressive Salaries + Firm Inventory Choices – we wish to pay you effectively (and equitably!) and make you are feeling like an proprietor.
- Versatile Schedule – we predict excessive ranges of autonomy, accountability, and dealing asynchronously foster an incredible office.
- Biannual Firm Paid Off-sites – time for us to be collectively, brainstorm, and make magic occur.