Staff Backend Engineer, The Rounds
$218-235k
+ Equity
Office located in Brooklyn, NY
Zero waste delivery service
Open for applications
Zero waste delivery service
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$218-235k
+ Equity
Office located in Brooklyn, NY
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create the most efficient, scheduled, last-mile logistics network, and the only optimized closed-loop (read: zero-waste) supply chain.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience writing production code (ideally Typescript)
- Reliable backend systems that drive significant user and business impact
- You’ve owned large scale projects from design to deployment, whether individually or as a small team
- Experienced with typescript, you hate `any` and love strict mode
- Experienced with functional programming concepts. You love using map and reduce, you care about immutability, and you understand the power of functional purity and lazy-evaluation. Maybe you've even dabbled with monads and algebraic data types
- Experienced with GraphQL. You obsess over the design of the graph schema and understand the tradeoffs when designing queries
Desirable
- Familiar with, or developed in, frontend development via frameworks such as React. We think the best backend engineers understand how their APIs and data models are used by the client
- Experience building logistics or operations technology for e-commerce
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a NYC based staff backend engineer to shape our backend systems to ensure seamless operations and an exceptional Member experience
- Our engineering team is small but we ship fast and ship often
- You’ll work closely with our world-class engineering, product, and cross-functional teams to solve a wide range of interesting problems
- Work on a wide range of projects, from routing optimizers to prediction engines for Member orders
- Iterate rapidly on features, tools, and processes as we launch new products and experiments
- Take ownership of large projects and see them through planning, prototyping, build, test, and deployment
- Help design the core of our domain models that power our business
- Work directly and closely with cross functional teams
- Example Projects
- Using 3rd party optimization tools to build an efficient route planner for our delivery bikers
- Redesigning our Member messaging system to use a failure-tolerant event bus
- Designing and implementing new GraphQL resolvers to implement a new recommendations feature
Application process
- A phone call with our people team to get to know you, answer any questions, and coordinate the rest of the process
- A short coding exercise (in typescript) paired with one of our engineers
- A final round onsite where you’ll pair with several staff engineers on technical exercises, and get 1:1 time with our Head of Engineering, and Chief Product Officer
- A short 30 minute call with our CEO/co founder
Our take
The creation of closed-loop supply chains is important if the world is to combat the waste crisis. Zero-waste delivery service The Rounds is supporting this endeavour, specialising in providing people with everyday essentials with less packaging waste.
Targeting urban neighbourhoods, The Rounds works on a delivery and pick-up system. This means it both supplies goods, and removes empty containers weekly. Its an attractive concept to busy but waste-conscious consumers who might struggle to reduce their household waste otherwise.
With significant funding at its back, its clear that investors also see the value in what The Rounds is offering. The latest raise, which comes alongside the launch of new features, will be used to support product development, hiring and expanding the service to additional markets.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2024
$24m
SERIES B
Oct 2022
$38m
SERIES A
Total funding: $62m
Company HQ
Center City West, Philadelphia, PA
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Leadership
Alexander Torrey
(CEO)Was a Managing Partner at Dorm Room Fund and Entrepreneur In Residence at Techstars. Also worked in Strategy at DDB and dentsu international, and co-founded umano clothing where they were CEO.
Byungwoo Ko
(COO)Interned at Roll and was a Fellow (Team Lead) at InSITE. Spent 4 years across several roles at Uber, founded and was CEO at Piull and was a Business Analyst in Strategy and Operations at Deloitte Consulting.
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