Backend Engineer, ReadMe
Developer hub making APIs easy to use
Open for applications
Developer hub making APIs easy to use
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To give early, growth, and even large companies the opportunity to engage their developer communities through beautiful, collaborative developer hubs.
Role
Who you are
- ReadMe is looking for a strong Backend Engineer who enjoys working in a collaborative team environment
- Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript and knowledgeable about Git
- Product-focused: Building a better documentation and developer experience platform for all is something that inherently excites you
- Not a perfectionist: You take risks, learn from your mistakes, and succeed beautifully every so often
- Excited to take ownership: We believe the way to learn is to take things on and own them. You’re even welcome to take on passion projects and be the change you seek to drive change
- Collaborative: Your code reviews and pull requests are detailed, you’re always happy to share knowledge, and you love a good pairing session
What the job involves
- Own major feature development. We give our engineers a broad range to figure out how features should be built
- Guide architectural planning decisions and liaise with product and design to determine what is technically feasible
- Implement coding best practices. We want a code base that everyone is happy to work in and makes things faster for other developers
- Creative problem solving. Help us figure out how to prioritize issues, push through bottlenecks, and cut the right corners to get things shipped
- Support other engineers’ growth on the team by knowledge sharing, pair programming, and mentoring
- 🌱 How you'll grow within one month
- Get to know the team:
- Join a variety of programming sessions with engineers across the team
- Meet your onboarding buddy who will shepherd you through the first few months
- Sink your teeth into a substantial project:
- We hire folks who we trust to do great work, and they’re given the freedom to hit the ground running
- Within their first few months, we’ve had Engineering team members redesign aspects of our metrics API, compose extendable components for our UI library, and remedy significant performance issues
- 🪴 Within three months, you'll..
- Get to know the broader team via:
- Donuts 🍩; you’ll get paired randomly with teammates across ReadMe, just to get to know who they are beyond work!
- Offsite retreats (recent locations include Cape Cod, Honolulu, and Tahoe)
- Get to know the product roadmap and development cycle:
- We set the roadmap and decide what to prioritize and ship as a team
- You’ll learn how the company operates, our business model, and how the engineering team fits into our plans as a company
- 🌳 Within six months, you'll..
- Share knowledge and mentor peers:
- We intentionally hire for different skill sets and passions; we believe that everyone has their brand of genius to share!
- Own a part of the product you’re interested in:
- Where you spend your time on the projects on our roadmap is flexible based on what you’re interested in and where your career goals lie
- Have a portfolio of awesome things that you’ve shipped throughout the year:
- We’re constantly iterating and shipping new things out, so be prepared to have a large impact on the product
Application process
- We can’t wait to read your resume and (hopefully personality-filled) cover letter! Let us know what excites you about full-stack engineering, and help us get to know you better!
- If we think we might be a good fit for you, we’ll set up a 1-hour phone chat with Moses, a Back End Engineer on the team! He’ll tell you more about the role, and get a chance to hear about your experiences
- Next will be a second 30-minute phone interview with Greg, our CEO & Founder, where we’ll dive a bit more into your background
- We’ll then do a technical assessment with a couple of ReadMe engineers
- Finally, we’ll invite you to an "onsite" interview conducted over Zoom! These usually take 3.5 to 5 hours including an hour break in between. We are able to be flexible with the schedule and split it up over two days if that works best for you! We start with a 15-minute get-to-know-you with the people you’ll be interviewing with, and then have you talk with people one-on-one later on
- We’ll let you know how things went within a week! If it still seems like a good fit all around, we’ll extend you an offer! If not, we will update you to let you know so you aren’t left hanging
Our take
APIs help different tools communicate with one another, let developers access essential services without the need to code and are critical components when driving a platform-driven strategy. However, they require solid documentation in order to help make the best use of them.
ReadMe is a platform powering interactive developer hubs that help customers build out their API documentation. They allow developers to make calls faster while quickly troubleshooting issues along the way to provide teams with the highest-impact improvements.
The company was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2015 cohort and since then it has grown steadily and profitably by working with over 3,000 companies, including Microsoft, Coinbase, Notion, and Afterpay. Because the company worked with such big names from an early stage, it focused primarily on developing its API logs to create more dynamic documentation, putting the startup in a prime position for further expansion.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2019
$9m
SERIES A
Jun 2015
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $10.2m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO with a three-week minimum
- Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for you, and 50% for your dependents
- A One Medical membership
- A wellness stipend for whatever wellness means to you of up to $150 per month
- One-to-one donation matching of up to $1,000 per year
- Twelve weeks of paid parental leave after the birth or adoption of a child
- Work from home office stipend of $500
- Three offsite retreats per year to get together with coworkers and plan for the quarter ahead
Company values
- Be the Change You Seek: If you think something could be better, make it so.
- Make Things That Just Work: We do the heavy lifting so our users don't have to.
- Strive for Simplicity: We want things that are easy to understand and easy on the eyes.
- Err on the Side of Whimsy: Life is too short to not use puns and owl doodles everywhere.
- Make the Compass Spin: Just because we're a small team doesn't mean that it should show.
- Always Do What's Human: Whether it's for the user, product, or each other.
Company HQ
Cathedral Hill, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Gregory Koberger
(Founder)Studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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