Hello, we’re Not often Decaf—a strategic know-how associate that helps companies craft purpose-built software program with out the time, value, and complications of conventional software program implementations.
We’re not a software program implementation company that builds on inflexible, outdated programs that require multi-year contracts, nor are we a standard dev store the place customized software program initiatives begin with a six-figure price ticket.
As an alternative, leveraging our experiences as enterprise operators and our ardour for contemporary know-how, we design, construct, and iterate bespoke enterprise functions on timelines measured in weeks, not months—empowering our companions to drive their subsequent chapter of progress.
Learn extra about our tech stack on the total job description right here.
We’re in search of an skilled software program engineer to affix us as our part-time Technical Lead and Software program Architect, spearheading the structure, planning, administration, and oversight of the event of our purchasers’ internet functions utilizing trendy visible improvement platforms.
On this pivotal function, you’ll act as a programs architect, technical advisor, and planner, collaborating intently with our founder, product supervisor, product designer, and builders to remodel enterprise necessities, course of diagrams, and UX/UI designs into scalable and safe enterprise functions.
As our first senior technical rent, you’ll assume key duties beforehand held by our founder, changing into the cornerstone of our engineering efforts. Your major focus might be on system structure, database design, and technical planning and administration, making certain our functions adhere to finest practices in safety, scalability, and efficiency.
You’ll present essential steering, mentorship, and help to our builders, who’re specialists in visible improvement platforms and can deal with nearly all of the hands-on execution. You may lead the week-to-week technological planning and architecting, collaborating intently with the event staff to plan work, assessment implementations, deal with technical challenges, and foster their progress. This function includes making certain alignment with architectural rules and technical methods by way of common interplay with the staff.
You’ll play a vital function in enhancing our problem-solving approaches, engineering practices, improvement processes, and staff tradition. By taking over the lead answer engineering work at present shared between our founder and builders, you’ll have the chance to instantly form the technical way forward for Not often Decaf, steering the technical course and improvement processes of the corporate.
Key Duties
- Architect and design technical options: Lead the design of scalable, safe, and performant internet functions within the context of our distinctive know-how stack. Give attention to system structure, database design, and high-level technical planning. Translate enterprise necessities into technical options, using digital white boarding instruments for planning and system design.
- Collaborate with and handle the event staff throughout a number of consumer initiatives: Work intently with builders who specialise in visible improvement platforms. Supervise and coordinate the work of a number of builders concurrently throughout completely different consumer initiatives. Present steering and help to make sure that implementation aligns with architectural plans and finest practices. Foster a collaborative atmosphere the place technical challenges are addressed collectively. Be aware: the part-time engagement will begin with collaborating on 1 consumer mission with 1 developer.
- Mentor and help developer progress whereas managing workloads in line with quarterly targets: Act as a mentor and technical advisor to builders. Plan and handle staff workloads, aligning duties with quarterly targets and mission deadlines. Assist their skilled progress by sharing information, offering constructive suggestions, and inspiring steady studying. Conduct “code evaluations” and supply steering on technical designs and problem-solving approaches.
- Plan and oversee improvement execution, together with dash planning: Information the event staff in planning and executing initiatives inside our know-how stack. Run dash planning periods, backlog grooming, and make the most of agile methodologies to ship initiatives successfully. Break down advanced initiatives into manageable duties, observe modular programming rules, and guarantee efficient execution. Oversee improvement timelines and make sure that initiatives keep on observe.
- Improve the software program improvement lifecycle (SDLC) and improvement administration programs: Refine our SDLC processes by integrating finest practices tailor-made to our platform-as-a-service know-how. Leverage your expertise from earlier roles in small corporations or dev outlets the place you have constructed or improved administration programs. Implement methods to enhance improvement workflows, reminiscent of utilizing completely different knowledge environments and branching, whereas balancing the necessity for speedy iteration. Doc processes and guarantee staff adherence.
- Affect technical technique and innovation: Collaborate with the founder to advance our Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) strategy. Make strategic choices on system integrations, customized code utilization, third-party packages, and microservices. Keep up to date on rising applied sciences and information the staff in leveraging them successfully.
- Guarantee high quality, efficiency, and reliability with a ‘get issues executed’ angle: Implement finest practices to reinforce our software high quality, safety, and efficiency. Monitor functions, arrange alerts, and proactively deal with errors or efficiency points. Whereas your major focus is administration and oversight, be ready to leap in and help with hands-on improvement when needed, whether or not it is fixing a essential bug or serving to a staff member with a fancy drawback. We’re a small staff, and we worth leaders who aren’t afraid to roll up their sleeves to make sure mission success.
- Collaborate in shaping technical necessities: Have interaction early within the characteristic and product conception course of. Work with the product supervisor and founder to judge and supply technical enter on consumer actions, tales, and eventualities. Assist form necessities and designs from a technical perspective to develop optimum options and scale back late-stage modifications.
We’re initially in search of a part-time staff member to help primarily with one consumer mission. We envision this function as a stepping stone, with sturdy potential to evolve right into a everlasting, full-time place as we proceed to develop.
Our preliminary finances is $2,000 to $2,500 USD monthly. We anticipate the perfect candidate to commit roughly 30 to 38 hours monthly, relying on expertise and the agreed-upon price, which works out to about $65 to $85 USD per hour.
As we collaborate and develop, this function has important potential to transition to a full-time place, providing elevated duties and compensation.
In case you have been to come back aboard full-time, these are our perks—
- Work Hours: Embrace a versatile, 35-hour work week that emphasizes a wholesome work-life stability.
- Trip: Get pleasure from 30 days of paid trip, accumulating 2.5 days monthly. This consists of native holidays.
- Firm Holidays: Profit from a handful of company-wide holidays every year.
- Work Surroundings: Expertise an asynchronous-first, calm, and deep work atmosphere impressed by profitable distant corporations like Doist, Buffer, and GitLab. Study extra in regards to the async-first philosophy right here.
- Stipend: Obtain a studying and productiveness stipend of $1,500 a yr to reinforce your work and private life. This consists of funding for AI instruments like ChatGPT and membership to skilled studying communities.
- Development Alternative: Alternative to get in on the ground-level of a rising firm, with the potential to form the way forward for how we ship our providers.