Senior Software Engineer

OUR ORIGIN STORY 🎂

In 2011 SkySlope started as an idea born at the kitchen table of our CEO, with just him and two others. Headquartered in Sacramento, California, we have since grown out of our previous 3 offices and many of our close to 150 employees are spread all across the United States. Those 150 employees support close to 300,000 users across 5,000 offices nationwide and now in Canada as well. Included in that is 8 out of the 15 largest Real Estate Brokerages in the nation.

But, despite being happy with what we’ve achieved we know that as industry leaders in our space there’s a lot of work left to be done. All of the growth and success that has happened is a result of us obsessing over building cutting edge software that makes the Real Estate world a better place. We know this only happens by hiring people who don’t just come up with out of the box ideas but hiring people who actually see those ideas through and bring them to life. As we’ve grown, we’ve been fortunate enough to hire plenty of people who possess that quality and realize it’s equally important to hire people who can pair that skill with empathy, collaboration, and a keen sense of urgency. If you’re looking to join a company where you can have real impact and surround yourself with an incredible team of people then look no further.

SKYSLOPE’S CORE VALUES 💪🏻

These are the principles that helped us get to where we are and they are the principles that will guide us to where we want to go in the future. You can apply them to your professional life, your personal life, to any business and any situation. In no specific hierarchy, our core values are:

Awareness | Execution | Obsession | Ownership | Humility | Radical Candor | Urgency | Greatness | Inches I Fun

The purpose of the Senior Software Engineer is to develop and improve SkySlope software in pursuit of making life better for every real estate agent, broker and service provider. Specifically, this involves developing, testing, deploying and improving software, while managing deliverables. The Senior Software Engineer will foster innovation, invest in the growth of their peers, and engage with other SkySlope team members and teams to ensure the overall stability and quality of our engineering efforts.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Responsible for developing, maintaining and deploying improved and new software:

   1. design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software

   2. manage his or her own project priorities, deadlines and deliverables, while at the same time understanding how their efforts, along with the efforts of their teammates, must be coordinated to ensure predictability

   3. actively participates in reviews of deliverables to ensure high quality and consistency

   4. capable of bringing any story/task to fruition with limited need for consultation of team members (although sharing knowledge of such is important)

   5. contribute to the overall architecture of systems, often working across multiple teams within the department

   6. collaborates with peers in designing highly scalable systems

2. Responsible for contributing to team success and being an effective collaborator:

   1. Facilitates and leads discussions around processes and solutions

   2. contributes to technology decisions

   3. contributes to sprint deliverables

   4. collaborates with team members and other departments

   5. assists and collaborates in efforts to ensure team predictability

3. Continuous learning and building expertise:

   1. increase domain knowledge about SkySlope and our clients

   2. continued learning around technologies that SkySlope utilizes

   3. facilitates knowledge and growth of peers by learning new & better ways to do things, and mentoring their peers via such knowledge

   4. exploration into better ways of doing things

   5. presenting to the ARB and/or holding L&Ls are expected and encouraged

4. Effective communicator:

   1. communicates honestly, openly, and respectfully with everyone

   2. mentors peers and able to provide constructive feedback to others

   3. able to contribute to overall goals of the team, even when differences in opinion or strategy exist

   4. assists in resolving differences in tactics and / or approach, despite differing opinions and experiences.

   5. able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. This often involves working with executives or higher level personnel in the company.

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

All team members are always encouraged to think outside the box and pursue opportunities to go above and beyond their job description and baseline expectations, in order to make our customers’ lives better.

Measurables

• Manager and peer positive observations of essential functions

• Meeting or exceeding deliverables and deadlines

• Positive peer reviews of code quality

Competencies

• Languages: Typescript, Javascript, Golang

• Runtimes: Node

• Frameworks & Libraries: React, Angular, Vue.js, NextJs

• Unit testing practices, frameworks and libraries

• DB: PostgreSQL, Google Spanner DB, MongoDb, and optimization of queries and database engines. This includes setting up alerts & monitoring as well as being responsible for hunting down any anomalies.

• HTML, CSS

• JSON

• Source control (Git, TFS, SVN, etc)

• Continuous Integration (CI) platforms (e.g., CodePipeline, Argo) including setting up and terraforming pipelines for the team

• Taking ownership of the effort to support & troubleshoot system operations

• Cloud computing platform experience (eg. Google Cloud Preferred)

Required Experience

• Usage of Google Cloud Services (e.g., Buckets, Cloud Functions)

• Experience with capture of application usage metrics (e.g., Google Analytics, New Relic, Amplitude, DataDog)

Supervisory Responsibility:

This position may have direct reports on a case to case basis.