The Opportunity

Headquartered in California, US and other engineering offices in UK and India, Simpplr is expanding to build an engineering hub in Canada. Come and join our team in Canada and help us establish the engineering team culture and build the future of employee experience.

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience to help us build the foundation of and deliver a new product line. You should be expert in either (or both of) Front End (with React + TypeScript) or Back End (with Node + TypeScript)

The products we build have a direct impact on our user’s happiness, success and satisfaction at work. Successful candidates will be working closely in a cross-functional team with other senior engineers, product managers and our UI/UX designers. They will be responsible for owning development projects from start to completion; this includes helping plan features, build services and deploy infrastructure.

The products we are building are all brand new so we have a modern tech stack implementing lots of best practices. Our apps are React Micro Front-Ends (MFE) with a multitude of backend services in Node.JS. We’re fans of infrastructure-as-code, automating toil and spending time refactoring if we need to.

Your Job Responsibilities

What you will be doing:

• Lead a development pod (BE / FE developers and Test Engineer) through your hands-on expertise
• Ownership of the team’s deliverables, manage expectations and timelines, work with the team on estimation and delivery plans
• Work in a talented cross-functional team to develop new user-facing features using TypeScript on the frontend and back-end in Node
• Write automated unit tests and end-to-end tests for your code and services. Quality is incredibly important to us and everybody is responsible for it.
• Participate in agile ceremonies; regularly and sustainably delivering value in two-week sprints.
• Help influence the overall architecture and direction of the codebase as well as the wider product.
• Help establish best practices, guidelines, and processes to allow the team focus on what they do best - building the application
• Mentor and guide other team members to help them grow in their career
• Take on people management responsibilities (1-1s, performance reviews, etc)

Your Skillset

What makes you a great fit for the team:

• You like to deliver great user experience and build scalable applications
• You have a track record of delivering quality software while leading and managing successful development teams
• You are user focused – we solve our customer’s problems together; everybody has a say in planning, design & execution.
• 7+ years of overall experience.
• 4+ years of experience with React and/or Node and strong in TypeScript
• You love identifying new technologies, patterns, and techniques and planning out how we can apply them to improve productivity, code quality and user experience
• Affinity for profiling and analyzing code to identify areas for improvement.
• Good understanding of CI/CD, unit testing (with Jest), and automated end-to-end testing using a framework like Cypress.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of functional programming patterns.
• Excited by working in a fast-paced startup environment
• Able to occasionally travel to our other offices in UK, New Delhi, and San Francisco

We’d especially like to hear from you if: 

• You have proven excellence in writing readable and efficient TypeScript code.
• You have a good track record of project leadership and mentorship of software engineers.
• You have experience working with microservices and micro-frontends in production.
• You are familiar with feature flag tools such as Harness
• You have worked with frameworks / libraries such as css-modules, Next.js

General Benefits Statement: 

Simpplr provides a competitive compensation package along with full health, vision and dental benefits. We believe in work-life integration and offer a flexible work environment. These benefits, coupled with an amazing team of individuals who believe in our mission and value openness, collaboration and teamwork, make Simpplr an incredible place to work.