Senior Backend Software Engineer, Knowde
Chemical industry ingredients marketplace
Job no longer available
Chemical industry ingredients marketplace
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring the industry that enables every physical product into the Digital Era.
Role
Who you are
- Ability to take initiatives from requirements to deployment
- 2+ years’ experience building highly scalable applications, contributing across the stack
- Ability to work and collaborate within distributed, multidisciplinary teams
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills
- High bar for quality and a phenomenal attention to detail
- Strong experience with Ruby or similar technologies
- Experience with DevOps, cloud infrastructure services (AWS/Google Cloud) and containerization (Docker)
- Experience managing release activities
- A passion for CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to design and build scalable, high-availability mission-critical systems and APIs
What the job involves
- As a small, remote team you’ll be empowered to work directly with leadership and the product team to make decisions about your code and the future of the product
- Be a trailblazer by contributing to the build of a complex ecommerce marketplace, the first of its kind in the Chemicals space
- Have a strong emphasis on shipping features quickly without sacrificing code quality
- Own your projects from software design to implementation and deployment
- Take pride in your work by implementing cutting-edge technologies and writing state-of-the-art code
- Emphasize simplicity and pragmatism, which is reflected in your elegant code that other developers emulate
Our take
Knowde is an online marketplace for the chemical industry, offering a single place for buyers and sellers to conduct transactions for all kinds of chemicals and chemical products. Knowde makes it easy to search for goods, compare products between sellers, and buy online with minimal fees and maximum convenience.
The company's founders have a background in chemicals and programming, and Knowde perfectly combines these two fields. Having previously worked for another chemicals marketplace, Chempoint, Knowde's CEO launched the business with a view to creating the chemical industry's first true online marketplace - the go-to online store for multiple verticals including food, pharmaceuticals, and household & industrial chemicals.
Across the world, trillions of dollars worth of chemical transactions are happening every year, and Knowde makes its money by taking just a small percentage of these transactions. It has attracted impressive investment from the likes of Sequoia Capital, which will help it develop an AI master data management platform. Over 8000 suppliers currently sell goods on Knowde, showcasing that it has played a major part in the digitization of the industry so far, and there are thousands more potential clients on the market, giving the company vital space to grow.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2024
$60m
SERIES C
May 2023
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $180.8m
Company benefits
- We offer “Knerds” a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs
- 401K program to help you invest in your future
- Education & learning stipend for personal growth and development
- Fully remote position
- Flexible vacation time to promote a healthy work-life blend
- Paid parental leave to support you and your family
Company HQ
Downtown San Jose, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Ali Amin-Javaheri
(CEO & Co-Founder)Joined ChemPoint in 2005 as Director of Technology. Became VP of Marketing and Sales in 2012, and left this role to co-found Knowde.
Wojciech Krupa
(CTO & Co-Founder)Former Staff Engineer at Linkedin and Director of Development at ADP.
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