Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
Names & Faces
Software Engineering
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Posted 6+ months ago
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
Names & Faces is a Y Combinator, Accel and Slack Fund backed startup with teams in San Francisco, London and Cape Town.
We are hiring a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join our team to help develop and maintain our web and mobile applications.
Our team is distributed so this is a remote role. Our engineering team is largely based in Cape Town so our preference is that you're within 3 hours of GMT+2.
What does Names & Faces do?
Here's a 1min 36sec video where Paul, our CEO, explains what we do.
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About the role
As part of the Engineering team you'll work across our technology stack and will be responsible for planning, proposing and building world class technical solutions for our web and mobile applications.
What we are looking for?
You'll be a kind
You'll be a senior software engineer with +6 years full stack experience
You'll be fluent in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and related web technologies
Proficiency in React, React Native, GraphQL and Typescript will be a bonus as they are the key technologies we use
You'll demonstrate sound knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals
You'll have good design and architecture skills, with a focus on clean APIs
You'll be a strong communicator and will collaborate well with teams
You'll take full ownership of your work, and will be considered a reliable team member by others that you work with
What tech would you work with?
React
React Native
Node.js
Apollo/GraphQL
Typescript
PostgreSQL database
Git & Github
AWS for our infrastructure (IAM, ECS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Cognito, SQS, SNS, ECR, DynamoDB, APIGW and a few more of their services)
Terraform for provisioning our infrastructure
Serverless
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What's the day to day?
Collaborate with other software engineers in an agile environment to build and maintain features for Names & Faces applications. This is across our web applications, mobile applications and API codebases.
Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to your peers
Advocate for and introduce improvements to our stack (development, testing, CI, automation, and architecture)
Share knowledge and assist in growing the team you are part of
Collaborate with our Product Manager and Designers to iterate on the design and implementation of our product
What does success in the role look like?
Positive contribution to the engineering culture at Names & Faces
Delivery of high quality, readable and well-structured code
Improvement of the engineering team's coding best practices
Improvement of the engineering team's processes
Good collaboration with the rest of the Engineering team and wider Names & Faces team
Why is this a good opportunity?
The main reason to consider joining us is for the extraordinary team of people you’ll work alongside on this journey. You’ll be hard pressed to find a better bunch. Here are a few other perks worth noting:
Head quartered in the US
Great Investors
Stock Options
High trust leave policy
Fully remote team
Growth & Development
Fancy offices and free lunch
Apply now
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A little more about Names & Faces for the curious
The Problem
Human relationships power organizations. But knowing people is hard.
If you’ve ever been part of an organization with more people than you can easily remember where things are changing all the time — new people, new teams, new roles and new initiatives — you will have experienced the awkwardness, frustration and limiting behavior that comes with the territory.
What you’re feeling is a sense of predictable social and functional failure. It is caused by not knowing who is who on your team, not knowing who fits in where or who is responsible for what, not knowing who might be able to help when you need a hand and not having the ability to get in touch with the right person at the right time.
This is a problem experienced by everyone from the CEO to the new joiner in almost every organization on earth of more than 50 people.
The Solution
There’s a simple way to overcome this problem. It involves creating an intuitive, accurate, contextually relevant visual list of your people that provides structure, organizational insight and immediate accessibility in the moments you need it — which is also hard. What we’re building at Names & Faces is the platform to create a list like this for every organization on earth.
Sound crazy?
Is it not astounding that there is no standard way to create a list of people that includes photos and basic details? There are a hundred hacks, but no generally accepted way. At Names & Faces we are creating the world’s definitive directory technology platform.
The white pages was the last purpose built directory any of us used. For the last 20 years directories have been relegated to being no more than bad byproducts of larger company systems: HR systems, IT systems, intranets, social networks and company communication tools. None of these systems were built to be directories. The directory was an afterthought.
Indexing people data
Think of Names & Faces in a similar way to what Google has done for content on the web. Google doesn’t own the content or manage it. Regardless of format, Google simply indexes the websites of millions of different organizations and displays that information in a quickly digestible way that every person on earth uses. It’s faster to find something on a company’s website by asking Google to find it than it is to go to that company’s homepage to find it yourself. This is the case for every website on earth.
Names & Faces is positioned to do a similar thing. Every organization in the world has their people information somewhere: in an HR system, a security system, an excel spreadsheet — the location doesn’t matter. Names & Faces will not be the source of truth. Instead, Names & Faces will index that information regardless of its format or location and will present it in a more intuitive and accessible way than any other system. Like Google, Names & Faces, will become the dedicated directory platform through which people access information about the people in their organizations.
A new category of technology
Names & Faces is not a social network, it is not an HR system, and it’s not a communication tool. It is directory technology — a new type of technology that doesn’t replace any existing tool. Instead it sits as a layer across all existing systems indexing and presenting people data to users through a fast, visual, intuitive interface.
Having immediate access to basic details about the people around us helps address anxieties that have existed since the dawn of man: who is who in this tribe? Who fits in where? Who should I be cautious of? And who might help me thrive?