Senior Software Developer, Observable
Data visualization platform for developers
Job no longer available
Data visualization platform for developers
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
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
- Our work spans the full stack from the open-source Framework library (TypeScript), to the cloud infrastructure hosting it (Cloudflare edge workers, R2, S3, Docker), to the API (TypeScript, Node, Postgres) and frontend (TypeScript, React) of observablehq.com. You don’t have to have experience with all that, but you have to be excited about learning what you don’t know
- 6+ years of experience of feature development across a frontend and backend stack
- Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: JavaScript, Python, Go or Ruby
- 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
- This is a whole new part of the platform, and most of the features you work on will be new, not updates or rewrites or maintenance; you’ll have to do technical design and architecture as well as coding
- 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 (including on our user support rotation), and nurture the quality of their experience as much as you do the quality of our code
- 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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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 values
- Teaching - We value written communication, interactivity, and illustration as teaching tools. Learning and teaching reinforce one another and are most effective in a friendly community where everyone is empowered to both read and contribute.
- Empathy - We listen to the wants and needs of notebook authors. We put ourselves in your shoes by using Observable every day (to build Observable). We try to share in the same joys and frustrations, and remember to focus on human needs first.
- Creativity - We believe in enabling creative expression and empowering people to realize their own solutions. We want to help develop fresh perspectives through tinkering and sharing examples and exploring new visual forms.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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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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