Senior/Staff Full-Stack Engineer, LocalStack
Cloud development platform
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Cloud development platform
21-100 employees
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21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower developers to rapidly build and test their cloud applications, saving valuable time and resources.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a highly skilled Senior/Staff Full-Stack Engineer to join our SaaS/Platform team
- You have a passion for creating exceptional developer experiences and will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of cloud development at LocalStack
- Extensive experience leading projects and teams in software development, owning not only the implementation but also the clarification, scoping, and breakdown of product solutions
- Ideally have strong proficiency and experience in Python and TypeScript (ideally React) for building full-stack SaaS applications in the cloud
- Experience building and running software solutions in the cloud, preferably on AWS, and experience with operational excellence and incident response best practices
- Ability to work independently, drive projects, lead and mentor junior team members, and clarify ambiguity to discover and define customer needs
- Passion for developer tooling, developer experience, and cloud development
- Ideally experience with data platforms and analytics tools to embed user feedback mechanisms and enable data-driven product decisions
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Prior experience contributing to open source projects on Github is a plus
What the job involves
- The LocalStack Platform provides a Web application and APIs that complement the functionality in the core emulator - enabling software teams to maximise their productivity with local cloud development
- It plays a crucial role in supporting dev teams across the software development lifecycle - from collaboration features around storing and sharing the state of LocalStack instances (called Cloud Pods), to detailed telemetry and debugging tools for your CI builds (Stack Insights), to spinning up application previews in a hosted ephemeral LocalStack instance (Cloud Sandboxes)
- As our global user base of enterprise customers is growing, there is an increasing demand for new product features, as well as the need to provide the best performance and stability for our critical infrastructure
- In this role, you will implement cutting-edge new features in the platform and lead projects from conception to delivery, leveraging your expertise in Python and Typescript/React to expand the SaaS and Platform part of our product offering, empowering customers to make full use of our core LocalStack emulators by building professional tooling around it
- You will also be responsible for building out and spearheading operational excellence and user experience of our platform (including the Web App and Desktop App), ensuring that our customers have a professional, delightful, and reliable experience
- As a key member of the team, you will initiate and lead projects, define customer needs, shape the technical design and architecture, and drive the development of solutions end-to-end
- Implement cutting-edge functionality in the LocalStack platform and Web user interface, enabling and optimising cloud development workflows for thousands of developers working with the product on a daily basis
- Lead projects from idea to delivery, ensuring high-quality results for our customers and empowering them to get their own development work done effectively
- Develop and expand our SaaS offerings, including the LocalStack Web and Desktop apps, in order to empower our customers to use LocalStack as part of their team and enterprise development flows
- Ensure operational excellence of our SaaS service, making it professional, reliable, and highly available through best practices in software and systems design and incident response
- Initiate and drive projects independently by clarifying ambiguity, understanding customer needs, and delivering elegant solutions to those needs
- Drive the development of tooling and cloud-based solutions to enhance the developer experience for all our customers, making local cloud development easy and intuitive
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams working on our core emulators to deliver fully integrated solutions to our customers to empower them to get their best work done quickly and easily
- Run internal demos and knowledge sharing sessions to educate the team on the developments in the SaaS, developer tooling, and local cloud development space
- Communicate directly with our customers in different support channels to understand their requirements and use cases, create reproducible samples, and help them resolve any technical issues
Our take
Developers can face high costs and delays with cloud-based testing (as centralised cloud environments are complex and expensive to maintain), which slows down development. This means that solutions to reduce these challenges are crucial for improving productivity.
LocalStack is solving this issue by providing a virtual environment that lets developers run a complete AWS setup on their laptops, cutting deployment times from 28 minutes to 24 seconds. It supports over 100 AWS services, reducing cloud costs and streamlining testing.
In an exciting move, the company raised substantial funding which will go towards expanding into the US and further developing its platform. With plans to offer new features like chaos engineering, LocalStack is ready to transform cloud development across multiple platforms.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2024
$25m
SERIES A
Total funding: $25m
Company benefits
- Opportunities for professional development and training
- Dynamic and collaborative work environment
- Flexible work arrangements
Company values
- People first: People come first, as they are at the heart of everything we do. We're on a mission to build a product that developers love, and a workplace where everyone thrives. When people enjoy what they work on, who they work with, and how they work, productivity will follow. This is true for us just as it is for our customers
- One size does not fit all: People first also means realizing that everyone is different, and needs different things to be productive. A person may be held back in one environment, but thrive in another. The same is true for projects and how we work on them. We embrace diverse work styles and empower individuals to be their best taking all their unique strengths and weakness into account
- Through failure we learn: We are a young and growing company venturing into the unknown. Whatever we do right now may not work three months from now. We may introduce processes or tools that we think are a good idea, but turn out not to work. Question the status quo and put forth new ideas, backed by informed arguments. Own it when they fail! If we accept and embrace these failures, we can learn together and ultimately grow closer as a team
- Embracing distributed decision making: We believe in the power of individual ownership and distributed decision making. As a young and dynamic organization we can only scale if we have efficient mechanisms in place that prevent bottlenecks. Distributed decision making is all about trust—which we can achieve by focusing on transparency, accountability, and feedback mechanisms
Company HQ
Lindenhof, Zürich, ZH
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Leadership
Gerta S.
(Co-Founder & COO / Co-CEO)Previously spent 3 years at Tricentis where they worked as a Global Digital Transformation Strategist, Global Diversity Program Lead and Product Manager in AI/ML. Prior to that, they were a Project / Product Manager and Business Process Analyst at runIT Solutions.
Waldemar Hummer
(Co-Founder & CTO / Co-CEO)Previously the Head of Engineering at Zurich Insurance Company and CTO / VP of Engineering at Advanon. Was also a Cloud/AI Tech Lead and Architect at IBM, and Development Team Lead at Atlassian.
Thomas Rausch
(Co-Founder & Head of Engineering)Founder of Cognitive XR where they serve as the Technical Lead. They graduated from the Vienna University of Technology with a PhD in Computer Science and worked as a University Assistant while there.
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