Senior Software Developer, Observable

Salary not provided

React

Docker

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

Node.js

Postgres

Ruby

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

Data visualization platform for developers

Job no longer available

Data visualization platform for developers

21-100 employees

B2BEducationInternal toolsAnalyticsSaaSCommunity

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

React

Docker

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

Node.js

Postgres

Ruby

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

21-100 employees

B2BEducationInternal toolsAnalyticsSaaSCommunity

Company mission

To redefine how businesses use data with a unified platform for every step of the data workflow and tools for every role.

Job

Company

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, the complexity of the world's data presents very real obstacles to understanding. So 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. They create and share work to help visitors understand the limitless potential of code.

The company is also helping organizations to make decisions with data, and classes at MIT that are working in Observable every day. The company has so far completed 3 rounds of series funding, which have supported lasting growth and tech innovation.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

30% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.6)

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Jan 2022

$35.6m

SERIES B

Nov 2020

$10.5m

SERIES A

Total funding: $46.1m

Company benefits

Remote-first work culture
100% paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees & their families
401(k) with matching
Flexible PTO and 17 company holidays in 2025
Home office setup stipend
Annual learning stipend
Monthly AI tool stipend
Team and company off-sites

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Julio A.

(Co-CEO)

Co-founder and Advisor at shades, and Member of the Board of Directors at Merico. Spent 5 years at GitHub working in strategy, business and ops.

Mike Bostock

(Co-CEO & Founder)

Previously a Graphics Editor at The New York Times, Visualization Scientist at Square and Staff Engineer at Google.

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