Senior Software Engineer, Posit
+ Bonus
Open source and enterprise ready tools
Be an early applicant
Open source and enterprise ready tools
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication.
Role
Who you are
- You have 5+ years of professional software development experience working with TypeScript/JavaScript and the React framework
- You are collaborative, an effective communicator, action-oriented, and invested in learning
- You are user-focused and driven by our mission to facilitate data science for everyone
- You share our commitment to building great software by striving for elegant design, clean and well-tested code, and delightful user experiences
- You excel at breaking down complex problems into bite-size tasks and driving them to completion
- You love to learn and help others succeed through code review and other forms of mentorship
- You are humble, pragmatic, deliberate, and have a keen empathy for your co-workers and users
What the job involves
- We are seeking a product-minded front-end developer with expertise in using the React framework to build SaaS applications
- In addition to committing code, we are looking for a candidate motivated to engage with our UI/UX designers, product managers, and quality engineers to deliver a thoughtful and highly usable product that delights our users
- In this position, you’ll primarily work with TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, React UI framework, and the Redux state management library to build features in Connect Cloud
- Our technology stack also includes Python, Go, and Rust; however, knowledge of them is not required
- Developing, testing, reviewing, deploying, and maintaining code in the Connect Cloud web application
- Marshaling specific features from design to implementation to deployment and beyond
- Ensuring continued product quality through thoughtful design, continuous integration, and test automation
- Collaborating iteratively with other engineers, designers, and product managers to understand and revise upcoming features and other improvements during backlog refinement and design sessions
- Suggesting process improvements to enhance the effectiveness of the team
- Mentoring and collaborating with other engineers
- Supporting our users via support tickets and through our community forums
- Building web applications using modern JavaScript/TypScript design patterns and best practices
- Working with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks
- Writing clean, modular, accessible, and highly testable code
- An appreciation for data science workflows and some of the tools and methodologies used by data scientists
- The Posit products and how they empower our customers to do effective data science, along with open-source data science tools like R and Python open-source tools Posit builds to empower data scientists
- Within one month, you will…
- Get to know everyone on the team and become familiar with our current development practices
- Follow our onboarding guide and suggest improvements
- Work on your first feature and deploy your changes to production
- Within three months, you will…
- Participate in feature planning and design sessions
- Complete code reviews providing meaningful feedback to your peers
- Leave each part of the product that you work on in better shape than how you found it
- Join in supporting customers with another member of the team leading the effort
- Understand our automated test systems and be able to investigate failures
- Within twelve months, you will…
- Plan features and drive their development
- Share your expertise and insights with team members, contributing to the collective knowledge and skill set of the team
- Be able to point to parts of the products that you have significantly contributed to
Our take
In a data-driven world, having reliable and accessible software is key to optimizing functionality. Posit provides R and Python-based tools to help improve the speed and quality of analysis, created "for data scientists by data scientists", with uses in data science, scientific research, and technical communication.
Posit's unique approach to creating universal data processing capabilities is helping to create new pathways in the digital age. It uses a unique blend of social and commercial endeavours to satisfy the demand for comprehensive data processing, and many of the company's products, including Posit Team for enterprises, are open sourced and accessible to all. Those looking for more advanced products can access programs such as Posit Server Pro and Shiny Server Pro for workspace management.
Given its unique approach to data management, entities from Liberty Mutual to Walmart and NASA have been incorporating Posit's technology. The company has received considerable amounts of funding, which has been used to expand its services, in 2024 launching the beta of its next-gen data science development environment. As the demand for open-source services continues to grow, Posit's effort to create data management services for all should continue to capture market share.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2021
$161.3m
LATE VC
Total funding: $161.3m
Company benefits
- 100% remote (or come in to one of our offices in Seattle or Boston)
- Pick your hardware — we want to equip you with what you need to do your best work
- All our full time employees are given an allowance to outfit their home office
- We have a flexible environment with a “take what you need” vacation policy
- Positive, passionate culture working with a world-class team committed to data science and the R language
Company values
- Open - We aim for transparency in the way we make and share tools—and the way we manage our company. We believe that great ideas come from anywhere—and that we’re better together.
- Resourceful - Intelligence is more than ‘book smart’ or ‘tech smart.’ It’s a mindset. To better serve everyone in our community we value continuous learning, curiosity, and emotional intelligence.
- Generous - We collaborate with our customers, the community, and each other with open hearts and minds. And we believe the effort, capital, and care we put out into the world benefits everyone in the end.
- Lasting - We want to remain an independent company for the long term. We make investments with this goal in mind, starting with our people. Our benefits programs are designed to ensure the long-term wellbeing of our teams.
Company HQ
South Boston Waterfront, Boston, MA
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Leadership
JJ Allaire
(CEO)Founded Allaire, where they served as CEO and then Chairman. JJ also founded Onfolio, which was acquired by Microsoft. They founded FitNow in 2008 before starting RStudio in January 2010.
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