About the role

We’re hiring an experienced software engineer to join our team and help evolve the Spruce platform. You'll be a key contributor on a small distributed team working to upgrade and scale our platform to support multiple audiences (customers, service providers, property staff and internal users). We are all in on serverless, CI/CD and containerization, shipping early and often, and keeping our users at the center of every decision we make.

Spruce is a remote-friendly company headquartered in Austin.

What you get to do

• Propose solutions and drive consensus among a diverse background of engineering, product, and operations team members to deliver the best solution for our customers

• Be a chief facilitator in the decision making process of what’s best for our platform

• Build software and systems that serve our customers, our service providers, and internal teams (operations, customer success, data).

• Mentor other team members to share your knowledge and passion for building high-quality software

• Contribute to the heart of a multi-sided marketplace that is sustainably growing through these crazy times

Who you are

• Proficient in building production systems in one or more of the following languages (Node.js, Python and Go)

• Direct experience migrating from a monolithic to a microservice architecture at scale (10k+ concurrent connections)

• Advanced knowledge of event-based / serverless architecture

• Strong experience with container / cluster technology (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

 

Nice to haves

• Cloud infrastructure experience

• Demonstrable contributions to open source projects