Full Stack Software Developer, Stack Overflow
$130-170k
Salary is US Salary Banding. UK Salary Banding - £70,000 - £104,000. Plus equity
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Public Q&A platform for developers
Job no longer available
Public Q&A platform for developers
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$130-170k
Salary is US Salary Banding. UK Salary Banding - £70,000 - £104,000. Plus equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help coders help each other become better coders by sharing their knowledge with one another.
Role
Who you are
- Strong programming skills in your language of choice (not necessarily ours) and a track record of working collaboratively to deliver alongside your team
- 5+ year(s) of full-stack web development experience with any major server-side stack, relational database, and modern front-end (JS, HTML, CSS). Experience in our stack is a plus, but not a requirement
- 1+ year(s) of experience with containers, k8s, Helm, and Azure
- Experience being agile, where continuous improvement is a fundamental principle to empowering the team to deliver
- Prior experience developing software solutions for companies and/or end users. You've built features and fixed bugs for a commercial product offering before
- Self-motivating, self-directing, and a great communicator (written and oral). This does not mean that you need to speak or write English perfectly!
- Willing to bring your expertise to the team through education and pairing in order to raise the skills of everyone
- Excellent problem solving skills. You excel at analyzing and solving problems using technology
- Living and working within GMT-5:00 (East Coast US) to GMT (UK) time zones
Desirable
- Experience working remotely and/or working with teams that are distributed geographically
- Experience with outcome based working where your team is empowered to deliver through owning the solution and affecting the success metrics
- Experience mentoring less-experienced developers. You know how to build skills and teach others in an empathetic and kind way
- Experience with building scalably deployed software solutions into cloud environments. Skills working with large amounts of data, feature flagging, and A/B testing of features are a plus
- An active Stack Overflow profile, open source code, example projects that you're proud of (whether open source or worked on at a previous job), or any other evidence of your passion for building great software
- Knowledge of how Stack Overflow works from our blog and podcasts
What the job involves
- As a full-stack software developer at Stack Overflow, you’ll join a cross-disciplinary team of developers, designers, and product managers working on new and existing features while supporting existing product tiers
- The contributions you’ll make will have a far-reaching impact and help shape the future of the world’s largest community of developers. Some recent projects we've been working on include:
- OverflowAI experience which includes: Enhanced Search, TIDE IDE Extension for VS Code, as well as Slack/MS Teams integrations with options for auto-answer
- Improved Subject Matter Expert identification and assignment where users are automatically recognized for their contributions to topics within their teams. This empowers our users to drive more content creation and engagement to their coworkers
- Scalably deployed new machine learning search functionality into our SOE customers for improved search relevance
- You'll work primarily in our main tech stack of C#, ASP.NET, and Microsoft SQL Server, with supporting technologies like Redis, k8s, Helm, and IaC
- If you’re not familiar with our specific tech stack, we'll pair you with mentors who will help you bridge the gaps
- As a company dedicated to increasing developer knowledge, we’ll give you the resources and support you need to develop mastery in your craft
- We’re a remote-friendly team. You’ll be part of a remote work culture that emphasizes online communication (Slack, GitHub, Hangouts, Zoom, Stack Overflow for Teams)
- While we’re generally very flexible on working hours, living and working within GMT-5:00 to GMT time zones (US through UK) is required for scheduling and interaction with your team and support staff who assist our customers
- We also believe in strong work-life balance and are focused on making sure that everyone finds a good balance, whether in-office or remotely
Our take
Stack Overflow is one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide: a Q&A style forum for developers, gamified with upvotes, downvotes, and badges, with over 14 million registered users and upwards of 21 million questions. It's grown to become a go-to resource in the community.
The site has proven a good springboard into providing other knowledge sharing services too - most notable among which is the company’s teams platform. This, along with advertising and jobs listings make for a strong revenue model that saw the company valued at well over $1B when it was acquired back in 2021.
This pricey acquisition means Stack Overflow has a secure buffer it can use to expand. This seems likely to take the form of growing its global product audience so it can boost revenue - as things stand, its teams platform is used mainly in the US. If Stack Overflow can get a foothold in developing countries like India and Brazil, it could continue its strong history of impressive growth.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2020
$85m
SERIES E
Sep 2015
$40m
SERIES D
Total funding: $209.1m
Company benefits
- We provide full health coverage for you and your family. That means that Stack Overflow pays 100% of your premiums. Additionally, we provide supplemental benefits such as telemedicine options
- We have a remote-friendly culture. Before the pandemic we were 40% remote. Today, we’re over 80% permanently remote and won’t require employees to return to an office if they don’t want to. We believe people do their best work when they love where they work
- While we’re fully remote, we’re supporting all employees with home office reimbursements and internet stipends. We also encourage employees to set their working hours on their calendar and in Slack to encourage flexibility
- We offer paid parental leave, a meal stipend, and the primary caregiver has the option to come back to work part time for up to one year. We also have a special caregiver policy due to the pandemic
- Access to a personal and professional coach on a 1:1 basis to help develop your career. Additionally, all employees have annual tuition reimbursement up to $5,250, professional development budget of up to $2,500 for continuing education, conferences, and memberships, in order to advance their skills and knowledge
- We provide employees monthly fitness reimbursements as well as host regular yoga and meditation classes during the work day. That’s in addition to regular virtual cooking classes, “bev bashes” (what we call happy hours), and more
- We care deeply for our employees and provide paid time off to encourage their voluntary involvement in and support of programs that positively impact the quality of life within the communities in which we live
Company values
- Adopt a customer-first mindset
- Be flexible and inclusive
- Be transparent
- Empower people to deliver outstanding results
- Keep community at our center
- Learn, share, grow
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
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Leadership
Prasanth Chandrasekar
(CEO & Board Member, not founder)Previously a VP of Barclay's Investment Bank, then worked his way through various senior level positions at Rackspace Technology, ultimately serving as SVP & GM of cloud and infrastructure services.
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