Principal Engineer, Metalab
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Product & interface design studio
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Product & interface design studio
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help everyone from tiny early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies build products that are simple, beautiful, and easy to use.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of Full Stack experience with expertise in Node.js and/or Python
- Appreciation of design and can protect its complexity without compromising fidelity
- Responds positively and can help the team adapt to changing priorities within projects
- Organized, self-motivated, and comfortable advocating for yourself and the work
- You can communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences and are comfortable leading presentations of work frequently
- You can design and communicate strong technical solutions that our internal and client teams understand and want to work on and understand how to achieve compromise on business trade-offs and technical decisions
- You have experience building full-stack applications across both the frontend and service layer using modern Typescript frameworks (ie. React, React Native, Nest)
- You have experience creating both REST and GraphQL APIs that enable client applications to persist, process, and retrieve data from various types of databases (ie. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB)
- You’re adaptable and quick to embrace unexpected changes in direction
- You appreciate design and can protect its integrity without compromising fidelity or feasibility
- You’re motivated by feedback and by the opportunity to improve in your role, in the work, and in how you work together as a team
Desirable
- Experience using ML models and AI services to power real-live products (ie. Google Cloud AI, Azure AI, AWS AI or Bedrock, GPT, Dialogflow, Claude, LangChain)
- Experience implementing ML algorithms with common frameworks in end-to-end applications (ie. TensorFlow, Synaptic, ML5.js, Spark ML)
- Experience in an agency setting
What the job involves
- To thrive in this role, you’ll provide technical support and guidance on projects, tackle new skills, and show up ready for anything
- You collaborate with our design and product teams to find relatable, new ways to use technology, helping others work within technical limits, and building products that improve people’s lives
- Collaborate with our talented design and product teams to ideate, concept, and develop new products
- Lead and guide technical teams on the front or back end (ideally both) including technical architecture
- Provide a strong point-of-view on various technologies and tech ecosystems
- Build prototypes and technical proof of concepts early with design to help clients envision their future product experience
- Deliver complex features without being given much detail, design, or specification
- Provide feedback on designs for completeness, implementation effort, and feasibility
- Review project team members' code submissions to match the needs of the project (in terms of quality, correctness, consistency, performance, etc)
- Participate in shares with the client stakeholders on project progress
- Be a trusted advisor to client design, product, and engineering teams, helping them surmount obstacles and deliver amazing products
- Support the department by sharing technical knowledge you learn with other project teams
- Identify when your project team members are stuck on a technical challenge and offer support
- Continually look for ways to improve workflows within projects for themselves and other developers
Our take
MetaLab, founded in 2006, has established itself as one of the most respected design studios in the industry. Since its inception, the company has designed products for some of the biggest names in tech and entertainment, including Apple, Google, Disney, Uber, TED, Tinder, Slack, and Headspace.
The company's story is especially remarkable considering its founder, Andrew Wilkinson, was just 20 years old when he launched MetaLab. Since then, Wilkinson has gone on to achieve significant success with Flow, a task management SaaS company and Tiny Capital, a tech-focused holding group.
MetaLab's continued success is a testament to its ability to adapt to a constantly evolving design landscape. Recent projects, including work for sports media startup The Athletic and meditation app Waking Up, showcase Metalab's ongoing growth in the design industry. It also launched Metalab Ventures, which will invest long-term in new startups.
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Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Remote & IRL: We've been doing remote work since '06 and wouldn't have it any other way — and make space for quality time in-person to stay connected
- 4.5 day weeks We take half-day Fridays because there's life outside of work
- Unlimited time off: Unlimited PTO (really). We want everyone to be healthy and get time to give back
- Zero timesheets: We are focused on the results and quality of our work — not on counting hours
- Learning & Growth: Custom opportunities to invest in your career growth
- Flex hours & locations: For a schedule that's one-size-fits-you
- Equity program: Make an impact on the world's leading products and sometimes have a stake in them, too
- Health & wellness coverage: Both mental and physical benefits so you can be your best on and off the screen
- Parental leave: We give 16 weeks of paid and protected leave for primary caregivers
Company HQ
Downtown, Victoria, BC
Leadership
Luke Des Cotes
(CEO)Initially joined Metalab in 2015 as a Client Partner, since then, they have worked in a number of roles, becoming CEO in 2023. Previously they worked as an Account Executive at TBA Digital and as a Busines Development Manager at Red Label Communications.
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