Senior Software Developer, Observable
$155-195k
Data visualization platform for developers
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Data visualization platform for developers
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$155-195k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build the place where users can create, collaborate, and learn with data.
Role
Who you are
- You need experience working in professional web development, but we are open to candidates with more backend experience or more frontend experience
- 6+ years of experience of feature development across a frontend and backend stack
- Proficiency with JavaScript or TypeScript
- Good computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and software design with sound investigative and debugging skills
- Familiarity with open source, cloud, or application platforms
- Ability to write readable, maintainable, self-documenting or well-documented code to solve complex problems with simple, elegant solutions
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Software Developer to join our small engineering team. With canvases, many of the features you work on will be new, not updates, rewrites, or maintenance.
- You’ll have to do technical design and architecture as well as coding. Our work spans the full stack from the API (TypeScript, Node, Postgres) and frontend (TypeScript, React, Nextjs) to dev tooling and infrastructure (Cloudflare edge workers, Heroku, S3, Docker)
- You don’t have to have experience with all that, but you have to be excited about learning what you don’t know! Since we’re a small team, you’ll have to get going fast, and we don’t have much in the way of formal training — but everyone is happy to help and pair-program all the time, and excited to teach and learn from you
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software
- Be part of a close-knit engineering team that ships new code into production multiple times a day
- Write code, create reliable and sustainable systems, and develop prototypes quickly
- Take initiative, prioritize and manage workloads, and meet project deadlines
- Empathize with our users and nurture the quality of their experience as much as you do the quality of our code
- Be part of an on-call rotation that includes every engineer
- Work well with a team of diverse skills (engineering, design, product, marketing)
Our take
For millions of people who don’t code and aren’t tech savvy the complexity of the world's data presents very real obstacles to understanding. Making sense of it is the biggest challenge facing our connected world. Observable has created a platform to discover and learn data visualization techniques, with collaboration built in. The company believes working with data is an essential skill for everyone.
The Observable community is made up of hundreds of thousands of developers, data scientists, students and teachers. Creating and sharing work, helping the 4.7 million visitors understand the limitless potential of code.
The company, led by CEO Melody Meckfessel, former VP of Engineering at Google, is helping organizations to make decisions with data, including teams at Stitch Fix and classes at MIT that are working in Observable every day. The company has so far completed 3 rounds of series funding, the last of which is being used to fund growth and tech innovation.
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Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2022
$35.6m
SERIES B
Nov 2020
$10.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $46.1m
Company benefits
- Remote first, all day every dayCompetitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
- Generous PTO
- Learning and development allowance
- Home office stipend
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Melody Meckfessel
(CEO)Previously worked for 15 years at Google, holding various positions such as Engineering Manager and Engineering Director.
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