Senior Full Stack Application Engineer, Elastic
Software that searches and analyses data in real time
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Software that searches and analyses data in real time
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build software to make data usable in real-time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience as a full stack engineer, with deep expertise in React and TypeScript
- Strong understanding of technical architecture, performance optimization, and building modular component libraries
- Experience leading technical projects and collaborating across functions (PM, TPM, Design, etc.)
- Comfortable working in cloud environments and collaborating with back-end systems (ideally built on Google Cloud Functions, RESTful APIs)
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-style development workflows
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate with non-technical team members and translate business needs into technical solutions
- Passion for continuous improvement, creative problem solving, and delivering delightful internal tools
Desirable
- Familiarity with Google Cloud services (e.g., Cloud Functions, BigQuery)
- Experience building data visualizations and analytics dashboards
- Hands-on work with no-code/low-code integration tools (e.g., Zapier) or automation platforms
- Exposure to back-end development using Node.js or Python
- Experience with Next.js for modern web applications
- Familiarity with NoSQL databases (e.g., Elasticsearch)
- Experience integrating AI capabilities into applications
What the job involves
- We're seeking a Senior Full Stack Application Engineer who can serve as the primary technical owner for the application, lead other engineers, and partner closely with Technical Program Managers (TPMs), and users to bring our roadmap to life
- Be the lead engineer and architect for the application (React/TypeScript)
- Translate business requirements from marketers and TPMs into scalable, intuitive, and high-performance application features
- Own technical strategy, design, and implementation, ensuring the platform is modular, maintainable, and performant
- Collaborate with back-end engineers and infrastructure teams to build and maintain a smooth and efficient development lifecycle
- Lead technical planning and estimation, helping prioritize work based on impact, feasibility, and dependencies
- Mentor junior developers, conduct code reviews, and raise the engineering bar through thoughtful feedback and guidance
- Partner with leadership to craft the vision, roadmap, and technical stack of the platform
- Help us continue to consolidate marketing tools, reduce SaaS dependencies, and deliver custom-built, natively integrated applications that meet unique business needs
Our take
Elastic develops the Elastic Stack, an open-source set of tools that includes Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, designed for data search and analysis. It also offers X-Pack, which adds commercial features to the Elastic Stack, and Elastic Cloud, a suite of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) products.
This technology is widely used by major companies like eBay, Wikipedia, Yelp, Uber, Lyft, Tinder, and Netflix, along with over 17,000 other organizations. It is applied in various use cases, including application and website search, enterprise search, logging, infrastructure monitoring, application performance management (APM), security analytics (enhancing SIEM applications), and business analytics.
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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2016
$58m
SERIES D
Jun 2014
$70m
SERIES C
Total funding: $162m
Company benefits
- Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations
- Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles
- Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year
- Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits
- Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about
- Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent)
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Shay Banon
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously held the position of Technology Director at GigaSpaces Technologies.
Simon Willnauer
(Co-Founder)Previously spent 13 years at The Apache Software Foundation, holding various positions such as VP Apache Lucene and Lucene Core Commiter and PMC Member.
Uri Boness
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Software Architect and Head of Search at Orange11 for 7 years.
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