Staff Software Engineer, Flowcode
Platform
$280-310k
Plus equity
3-4 days a week in office (Soho, NYC)
QR code generator platform
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QR code generator platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$280-310k
Plus equity
3-4 days a week in office (Soho, NYC)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To change how we interact with the world around us.
Role
Who you are
- While this is a hands-on role, it requires a strong bias toward backend systems, distributed architecture and deep technical leadership. We value the ability to guide teams toward pragmatic, high-impact solutions
- This role is ideal for an engineer who values simplicity, correctness, and pragmatism, and who can balance long-term platform investments with immediate business needs
- 8+ years of experience building and operating production-grade systems, with a strong backend focus
- Deep expertise in building high-performance, concurrent services
- Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
- Strong understanding of API design, data modeling, and consistency tradeoffs Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) and modern deployment patterns (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Proficiency in several modern backend language (e.g., Go, Python, C#,, Java)
- Commitment to code quality, with solid grounding in design patterns, testing, and CI/CD
- Strong grasp of scalability and performance, able to make informed tradeoffs between speed and correctness
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset
- A builder’s mentality, comfortable taking initiative and owning outcomes from design through production
- A history of working with in 20+ person engineering organizations and collaborating with Product and Design to enable feature delivery at a reasonable velocity
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help grow and build the core platform that powers our Flowcode 2 application at scale
- This role sits at the intersection of architecture, leadership, and pragmatic execution with a focus on creating and augmenting reliable, scalable, and extensible services and applications
- You’ll operate as a technical leader with in our Platform pod, growing platform capabilities, building new features and problem solving in a dynamic and challenging technical environment
- Own critical systems end-to-end, including design, implementation and deployment,
- Hands on designing, building, and maintaining scalable features across a modern front-end framework and backend services
- Architect for growth — help drive your pods’s technical roadmap and shepherd established engineering best practices
- Collaborate across teams with product, design, and data to deliver measure, deliver and grows features quickly and iteratively
- Mentor and guide senior engineers, raising the bar for technical execution and system design across teams
- Balance ideal engineering with the realities of speed, customer needs, and startup resource constraints
- Drive improvements in observability, performance, and incident response
- Advocate for pragmatic solutions, solving the right problems with the appropriate level of complexity
Our take
QR codes, which have been widely used in many Asian countries for years, have more recently catapulted into the day-to-day lives of consumers globally. New York-based Flowcode has been swift to capitalise on this hugely lucrative space in the US market, with a reimagined take that offers more attractive, brand-customised options.
The usefulness of QR codes across a huge spread of sectors means they are unlikely to make an exit anytime soon, and Flowcode has carved a strong reputation for itself as consumers begin to demand a higher quality QR experience. The company works with corporate brands, restaurants, small businesses, and celebrities, including the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Bentley Motors, GoDaddy, and Warner Media.
Recently, the company has introduced an upgraded platform, highlighting its commitment to innovation with new features like real-time analytics, geo-location data, and cross-screen attributes. Setting a new standard for QR code technology, enabling brands ot gain deeper insights and refine their marketing strategies.
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Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2024
$0.2m
SEED
May 2020
$30m
SEED
Total funding: $30.2m
Company benefits
- Employee Stock Options
- Unlimited Vacation
- Paid Health Benefits
- Lunch stipend & office snacks
- Happy hours & team dinner
- Custom swag
- Parental Leave
- Team offsites
- Diverse Managers
Company HQ
Hudson Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Tim Armstrong
(CEO)Previously CEO and Chairman at AOL, as well as having worked at Google and snowball.
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