Connects with the Mission
Wider Circle’s mission should be a significant factor in this person’s desire to consider the position. The right candidate will be a values-driven individual who immediately aligns with Wider Circle’s values, connects and compliments teammates, and demonstrates the appropriate passion within their own life.
Flexibility
Wider Circle is known for their consistency, passion, and flexibility to respond to member and customer needs. Candidates should prefer the types of processes, team dynamics, and velocity to thrive in this type of dynamic environment to address these evolving needs.
Seasoned Senior Developer
The candidate should have 8+ years of prior software development and architecture experience. They should be familiar working for a company and team of similar size, at a similar point in the company’s trajectory. They must be comfortable executing successfully on internal and external projects and pilots. They should have experience working with, mentoring, and/or leading a remote and geographically distributed team that includes offshore developers. They should be familiar with the end-to-end recruiting process of screening, interviewing, and onboarding the right resources in order to expand their teams. They should also be seasoned communicators, who are comfortable collaborating not only with internal tech team members, but also internal stakeholders in different parts of the organization, and third-party vendors and partners as well.
Breadth of Technical Knowledge
In order to effectively design and build software solutions, the candidate needs extensive back-end expertise, including support for both web and mobile front-ends. They should be fluent with platforms and languages such as NodeJS, Java, Amazon AWS, and Twilio. They must be familiar with project management tools, agile methodologies, and squad organizational structures, as well as branching strategies, continuous integration, and automated test frameworks. They should be capable of creating back-end architectures that are both scalable and optimized for performance. They should be experienced with APIs and third-party integrations, and synchronizing data between systems. In addition to designing systems and mentoring others, they will also be expected to write their own code, perform code reviews, and manage source code repository branches. They should also be able to manage sprints and backlogs, lead software design and architecture discussions, and champion for internal tech debt improvements.
Been There, Done That Attitude
We are looking for someone who has a proven track record of transitioning and improving products in small/medium startups to support the company’s scale. They should have experience evaluating trade-offs on build vs. buy, and maintaining original tools vs. creating next-generation solutions. The candidate should have a knack for reducing bottlenecks and manual processes in order to streamline development, increase velocity, and deliver solutions on time or ahead of schedule. They should have the confidence to take on tough engineering tasks and projects in alignment with Product Management and senior leadership, but without the need for constant oversight. And finally, they should be interested in an eventual team lead career path.
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Benefits
As a venture-backed company, Wider Circle offers competitive compensation including:
And most importantly, an opportunity to make the world a better place!
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