Senior Software Engineer, Ceros
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Design platform for professional creatives
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Design platform for professional creatives
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock Options
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
Ceros is on a mission to inspire & unlock creativity with liberating technology.
Role
Who you are
- We hire only passionate and creative people with a proven and unquestionable ability to execute, and every member of the team is equally responsible for moving the product forward
- You excel in navigating ambiguity, where complex and evolving requirements are more typical than clear-cut customer demands
- You approach large challenges incrementally, preferring a test-and-learn methodology over prolonged heads-down development
- You are self-motivated and proactive, with progress often driven by your own initiative and that of your team
- Experience in a fast-moving startup environment desirable
- You look to uplevel others around you, supporting teams outside of your specific project
What the job involves
- Reporting Into: Lead Software Engineer
- As part of the Ceros product team, you’ll be working with a small, cross-functional group of the most talented people you’ve ever worked with
- We have a dynamic company culture that collaborates daily
- We care deeply about the user experience, and we debate passionately about our ideas
- When you work at Ceros, you check your ego at the door, and you aren’t afraid to be honest, especially to yourself
- We take our jobs seriously but ourselves not so much
- As a member of a remote first team, you embrace transparency and collaboration
- Designing and building the Ceros platform is not an easy task
- We require the best-of-the-best Software Engineers, Designers, and Quality Engineers, ready to build a best-in-class web content design studio, often pushing web browsers to the limits of what’s currently possible
- Our codebase is 95% TypeScript/JavaScript and the Ceros Studio product consists of multiple single-page applications with a client-heavy focus
- We use libraries like React, Webpack, jQuery, and Backbone
- The Ceros Studio is architected around the HTML Canvas element
- We’re not language zealots
- We believe in using the right tool for the job, and our current server-side infrastructure runs Node.js, PHP, Redis, AWS Aurora, Docker and Jenkins within the AWS cloud
- Writing well-architected, maintainable code (probably goes without saying)
- Planning and leading high-complexity stories and epics
- Writing unit, functional and e2e tests
- Reviewing story plans and offering insights on impacts to other parts of the application
- Having your day ruined by Quality Engineers who find every bug you write
- Carrying out and being on the receiving end of intense code review sessions from your peers who hold your work (and their own) to the highest of standards
- Agonizing over the user experience until even a trained monkey could use the product
- Participating as a primary on-call resource for service disruptions
- Suggesting new technologies and techniques to improve engineer productivity
- Collaborating with and mentoring your peers on security best practices
- And finally, deploying your code to production and seeing the customer create something amazing and beautiful with it
Our take
Writing code to create digital content often comes with complications and expense. Ceros was created to eliminate these issues, by providing customers with a no-code design platform.
It allows marketing and design teams to create animated content on a collaborative canvas, without having to rely on developers. As such, the Ceros platform has proved a hit with an impressive list of enterprise customers including United Airlines, Condé Nast, J.P. Morgan Chase, Fitbit, Bloomberg, and Mashable.
Competition in the MarTech market may be fierce, with rivals including Ion and Uberflip, but Ceros sets itself apart as a platform that allows customers to produce this kind of content at scale and with fast turnaround times. Lately, the company announced "Gemma", a creative AI sidekick capable of generating new ideas, optimizing existing designs, and automating tedious tasks, with the aim of freeing up users to focus on their own creative vision.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2020
$100m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$14m
SERIES C
Total funding: $144.5m
Company benefits
- Remote-first policy & home office stipend
- Stock options
- Comprehensive healthcare packages
- Unlimited vacation days
- Wellness Fridays - if you’ve wrapped up your work for the week, go ahead and start your weekend at 1:00pm on Fridays
- 401k Matching - Ceros matches 25 cents for every pre-tax dollar contributed to your 401k, capped at $2,000 per year
- Parental leave for all new parents who have worked at Ceros for more than a year
- Career development program
Company values
- We give a shit
- We wear our chicken suits
- We are courageously honest
- We respect each other
- We find a way
Articles
Leadership
Simon Berg
(CEO)Prior to Ceros, Simon worked for 20 years at media solutions company, Group FMG, starting as a Tea Boy and gofer and ending up as CEO
Dominic Duffy
(Non Executive Director)Dominic has a background in marketing having worked for BORN as CPO and at Mitie as the head of Strategic Marketing.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Ceros
- Unity at Ceros: Ongoing initiatives that foster participation and cultivate a diverse and inclusive culture.
- Unity 24/7: Featured content and learning paths on the topics of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
- Unity Moments: Safe space to reflect, share, and forge new relationships. A year-round opportunity for Cerosians to show up for one another around significant moments happening personally, at Ceros, in our communities, nationally, and globally—with and without news headlines. Open-invite Zoom gatherings 2x a month.
- Unity Workshops: An interactive series of workshops focused on diversity, inclusion, and belonging designed to bring these concepts and our core Ceros values to life.
- CommUnity Partnerships: Ongoing commitment by Ceros and opportunity for Cerosians to mentor underrepresented youth in the creative tech space.
- People Practices: Our ongoing commitment at Ceros to carry out recruitment strategies that reach a diverse candidate pool, create an applicant experience designed to counteract bias, and uphold fair and equitable people practices committed to creating a diverse and inclusive organization.
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