Senior Backend Engineer, Fringe
Lifestyle benefits marketplace
Job no longer available
Lifestyle benefits marketplace
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To give companies a better way to show love and care to their people.
Role
Who you are
- You are a skilled backend developer with 5+ years of experience. Your experience includes:
- Developing in Scala or Java
- Building RESTful APIs
- Working with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Working in a cloud-computing environment (AWS preferred)
- Observability and APM tooling (DataDog preferred)
- You enjoy test-driven development and test automation
- You understand and appreciate learning about/contributing to DevOps best practices and technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD)
- You have a track record of significant, specific, and self-directed contributions to complex and challenging projects. What we're getting at here is "grit" – proof you’re experienced and have learned some lessons along the way
- You think beyond just the task at hand to deeply understand the 'why' behind what you are doing
- You have experience dealing with ambiguity, taking abstract concepts and turning them into working software
- You work quickly, with confidence, and without ego. We’re a startup and we run fast and lean – which means every engineer has a high degree of ownership and potential impact
- You have a product-focused mindset. You have a knack for and ability to contribute to the process of uncovering a solution that will best meet the needs of our clients
- You are a curious and creative thinker, not bound by "the way things have always been done". What you know is less important than how well you learn and innovate
- You have a positive and proactive “let’s get it done” attitude
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will build and enable the creation of high quality solutions, making a difference in the day to day lives of employees who use Fringe benefits
- You will get to bring your creativity and engineering skills to the table to solve unique problems, improving the usability and performance of our product, and driving solutions alongside other backend engineers
- Working closely with the Product and Engineering teams to maintain and improve core product features, as well as build and deploy new features
- Supporting other engineers with code reviews and providing meaningful feedback
- Seeking opportunities to fix performance and developer experience issues
- Working with senior engineers to prioritize, architect, and build long-term solutions with quantifiable improvements
- Improving our data architecture and helping scale our systems to enhance usability and performance
- Strategically and tactically executing on technical integrations with third party tools, systems, or partners
Our take
Salary is no longer the main factor for most people when looking for the next step in their career. Employers have noticed and are keen to attract and retain the best talent through perks such as discounts, gym memberships, subsidised travel and childcare. But these schemes are expensive and inflexible, and often aren't met with much enthusiasm from candidates. Enter Fringe, a startup which allows employers to enroll in its scheme and which gives employees credits to spend on whatever they want across its vast network of partners.
This approach has boosted retention in the companies that have joined the platform, reducing turnover by 50%. Success has bred imitation and challengers have appeared, each with their own twist on Fringe's formula. However, Fringe has an established customer base including Shipt, Uber and Turo, and it has made strategic partnerships to bring the platform to more enterprise businesses.
In 2022, Fringe completed a funding round led by Origin Ventures and Felton Group. It plans to develop the product further, expand to new markets and invest in acquiring more software engineering and marketing talent.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2024
$6.1m
EARLY VC
Nov 2022
$17m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $25.3m
Company benefits
- Work from Anywhere
- Your choice of monthly Fringe lifestyle benefits
- Healthcare
- Company Retreats
- Food and drinks provided in the office
- 401k
Company HQ
Scott's Addition Historic District, Richmond, VA
Leadership
Chris Luhrman
(COO)Before co-founding Fringe, was Cross Cultural Training Coordinator at Cru.
Isaiah Goodall
(Head of Growth)Was Director of Business Development at Elder Research and Manas Development Group
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