Software Engineer, Barley
$100-130k
+ Stock options: 0.1% - 0.3%.
More information about location
Compensation management platform
Open for applications
Compensation management platform
1-20 employees
Open for applications
$100-130k
+ Stock options: 0.1% - 0.3%.
More information about location
1-20 employees
Company mission
To help growing businesses implement consistent and equitable compensation in a remote work world.
Role
Who you are
- Strong foundational knowledge of software development
- Relentless curiosity to learn new things and receptive to feedback
- Experience with modern web application development, using TypeScript (or JavaScript), ReactJS, GraphQL, Node.js Vite, NestJS, and/or Hasura
- Experience with schema design and relational databases such as PostgreSQL
- Professional experience shipping cloud-based software products to market is a PLUS
- Experience with cloud and serverless infrastructure (GCP, AWS or Azure) is a PLUS
- Hands-on experience with microservices, containerization (Docker), and CI/CD (Github Actions) is a PLUS
- Haven’t worked with some of our specific technologies? No problem, a deep experience with web technologies and willingness to learn our tech stack goes a long way
What the job involves
- Solving technical challenges and building features as we work towards growing the Barley platform
- Collaborating closely with other engineers and product in an agile environment
- Building with a strong orientation towards data schemas, analytics, and database design
- Taking initiative to understand “the why” of what you’re building, the business context, and user problems to propose improvements, eliminate gaps, and reduce risk
Application process
- Stage 1: Screening Interview: This is a 45 minute Zoom meeting where we'll share more about the role, learn about your background / experience (and alignment to the position), and answer any questions you may have
- Stage 2: Skills Interview: This is an hour and a half Zoom meeting that consists of a pair programming exercise with the Head of Engineering, a system design exercise, as well as technical questions to assess your experience
- Stage 3: Case Interview & Meet the Founders Interview: This is an hour and a half Zoom meeting that consists of a logic exercise related to our space and discussing your experience and major accomplishments with one of the co-founders
Our take
Barley’s smart compensation platform allows companies to visualize their pay structure on a company scale to ensure that staff are fairly compensated. While every business has some form of compensation tracking system, Barley’s offers advantages – namely the ability to visualize pay bands at scale, and gauge employee compensation expectations.
Given the well documented skills shortage and “Great Resignation” of the last few years, there’s more pressure than ever on companies to give employees enough reasons to stay. Factor into that the long overdue move for gender, racial and ability-based pay equity, and a solution like Barley’s could prove very effective.
It’s early days for the 2021 launched startup, but with the successful entrepreneurial backgrounds of co-founders Jafar Owainati and William Mainguy, as well as the financial backing of Golden Ventures and leaders at Shopify and DMZ, the startup looks set for a period of rapid growth.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2023
$4m
SEED
Total funding: $4m
Company benefits
- Stock Options: Every member of the Barley team gets a piece of the pie
- Generous Vacation: Participate in our generous vacation and paid time-off program
- Competitive Pay: We offer a transparent and comprehensive approach to pay
- Learning & Development: Dedicated learning allowance to invest in your growth
- Health Benefits: Full health, dental, and vision benefits that kick in on your first day
- Parental Leave: Paid parental leave and flexible return-to-work program
Company values
- Focus on the Customer: We obsess over understanding our customers' challenges, knowing that the best path to a solution is listening to and collaborating with them.
- Have a Bias for Action: Speed matters. We're not afraid to take action quickly, especially when decisions are reversible. We think and talk in days, not weeks.
- Pursue Continuous Improvement: We seek and provide feedback (even when it can be tough). We invest in personal development, and we strive to teach and mentor others.
- Keep Things Simple: We respect the importance of details, but keep them limited, so that we can deliver simple, innovative, and powerful solutions with velocity.
- Be Relentlessly Curious: We believe that asking the right questions helps us get to the best answers. It all starts with understanding "the why" behind a problem.
Company HQ
Fort York, Toronto, ON
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Leadership
Jafar Owainati
(Co-founder)Co-founder & board member at RFP response software provider, Loopio. Former senior consultant at Deloitte.
William Mainguy
(Co-founder)Founder & former CEO of Reelhouse - a direct-to-consumer film distribution platform (acquired by Gener8 Media,2014). Former VP of Product & Strategy at Burrard Properties.
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