Staff Full-Stack Engineer, Aiven
Aiven Console
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AI-ready open source data platform
Job no longer available
AI-ready open source data platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity plan
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help customers create outcomes and accelerate building applications.
Role
Who you are
- We look for engineers who can work around problems by finding new angles
- We are looking for product-minded engineers who have a keen interest in the business and user behavior, are proactive with product development ideas and tradeoffs, and want to understand the “Why?” behind all things
- As a product-minded engineer you communicate well with engineers and non-engineers alike and are interested in how other functions work
- You’ll have at least ten years’ experience building web-facing applications. But more than the years we care about what you have been doing. We want to hear about the products you’ve shipped, how they were built, what was the impact, and what you learned while doing that
- Long, proven track record of successfully shipped software products and solutions
- Strong communication and technical leadership skills, your leverage comes through influence not authority
- Exceptional problem solving and decision making skills, you look beyond the obvious to the second and third order effects on the whole business and organization
- Strong programming skills, including system architecture, testing, and testing automation
- Experience building web-facing applications end-to-end, including everything from the browser to the cloud infrastructure and data services the app runs on
- Proficiency in TypeScript and one or more modern SPA frameworks
- Experience in Python, or proven ability to learn new programming languages
- Experience designing relational databases and analyzing and improving database performance
- Experience working with public cloud infrastructure and deploying full-stack web applications on cloud infra (AWS, GCP or Azure)
- Experience designing and implementing public RESTful APIs
- Experience in full-stack observability, APM and distributed tracing solutions (Datadog, New Relic, Honeycomb, OpenTracing, Grafana, etc.)
- Experience in CI/CD pipeline design and implementation (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, etc.)
- Fluent skills in English, written and verbal
- If you relish pushing your technical boundaries, come join us
What the job involves
- We’re hiring an experienced staff full-stack engineer to work on our Aiven Console
- As a staff engineer, we expect you to be a bar raiser in multiple dimensions: technical decision making and mentorship, problem solving, experience, and personal output
- Staff engineers are also expected to have a material positive impact outside of your own team
- Designing, architecting and implementing user analytics, experiments and A/B testing capabilities across Aiven Console
- Rearchitecting and reimplementing the way our Aiven Console is deployed to speed up development cycles and ease the operational load for our SREs
- Assessing, architecting and implementing APM and observability solutions across our Aiven Console stack
- Enabling scaling our engineering organization and code base by identifying blockers and restructuring our frontend codebase to support the growing number of teams working on the same technical platform
- Creating completely new platform-wide capabilities or extending existing ones. (Like enabling our users to tag their Aiven resources.)
- Building the user experience for a new service. (In the past year we introduced Aiven for Apache Flink and Aiven for Clickhouse to the Aiven Console.)
- Driving our public RESTful API development, design and performance in collaboration with other teams
- Enabling design at scale by contributing to our company-wide in-house design system
- Driving the team’s backlog by owning the technical planning of feature deliveries
- Technical mentoring of other team members and engineers
Our take
The cloud infrastructure is booming as more businesses rely on open-source technologies to run their operations at scale. In this fast-growing space, Finnish company Aiven has carved out a strong reputation since founding in 2016. The company provides fully managed cloud services, helping organizations use open-source tools without the hassle of managing the technical details themselves.
The company works with a wide range of clients around the world, offering services that cover everything from databases to messaging systems and analytics tools. So, Aiven is helping businesses streamline their cloud operations and focus on growth instead of infrastructure headaches. Making complex technology accessible, reliable, and scalable for teams of all sizes.
Recently, Aiven his a major milestone of surpassing $100M in annual recurring revenue, a signal of its growing impact in the cloud space. To support this next phase of growth, it's opening a new hub in Cork, Ireland, creating a bunch of new jobs over three years.This expansions puts AIven in a prime position to scale internationally and bring its managed open-source solutions to more companies.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2022
$210m
SERIES D
Oct 2021
$60m
SERIES C
Total funding: $420m
Company benefits
- Stocks: Stock options for permanent employees
- Learning & growth: Get ahead with an individual learning budget, access to a web learning platform, coaching, and the ever-growing Aiven library.
- Work/life balance: Flexible, regular working hours, and hybrid work friendly.
- Health care: Private health and dental care.
- Work equipment: The tools you need to do your job.
- Cool, collaborative work spaces: with free drinks, treats and fruit.
Company HQ
Kamppi, Helsinki
Leadership
Oskari Saarenmaa
(Co-Founder CEO)Senior Software Engineer and Software Architect for F-Secure Corporation from 2002 to 2011.CEO and Software Architect of Ohmu Ltd. from 2010 to 2016.
Heikki Nousiainen
(Co-Founder & Field-CTO)Experience as Information Security Specialist for TietoEnator. Lead Software Architect for F-Secure Corporation from 2008 to 2015.
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