Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

About Us:

The wholesale distribution industry is ready for a revolution, and Proton is leading the charge. The world relies on distributors to sell nearly every physical product, but despite its massive contribution to the global economy, this industry has been left behind in terms of technology. Proton is changing that. With AI-powered sales software, we’re breaking through the complexity of selling millions of products and making it easier for distributors to anticipate customer needs. Our mission is to bring the distribution industry into the modern age and the results speak for themselves. Distributors using Proton see 10x ROI, faster new hire ramp-up, and happier sales teams.

In 2022, we raised a $20M Series A backed by Felicis Ventures (investors in Twitch, Shopify, Opendoor, and many others) and Battery Ventures. This year, we’re laser-focused on driving customer growth. If you’re excited about the opportunity to wear multiple hats, and continuously learn and experiment, now’s the time to join the Proton team.

The Role:

Proton is looking for an experienced full stack Senior Software Engineer to join our fast-growing SaaS team! Reporting directly into the Director of Engineering, the Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for the design and development of Proton.ai product features, improvements, bug fixes, and internal tooling. In this role, you will lead major feature design and development as a member of an Agile Development team with other engineers, Product Managers, Architects, and QA.

We're looking for someone technical with a deep understanding and curiosity of modern tech stacks and systems that will help us choose and implement solutions that benefit our customers, as well as be a great teammate to work and collaborate with.

The target salary range for this role is $60,000 - $90,000. Final offers will be based on your skills and previous experience. Proton collaborates with Oyster HR to hire international employees as full time (long term) contractors within our company.

This role will be fully remote. For collaboration purposes, all hires based in Europe or India are expected to be available for meetings from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM EST (Eastern Standard Time). Candidates located in Latin America are expected to work standard EST business hours on a daily basis.

What you’ll do:

• Feature Development: Independently Develop the backend and frontend coding of new features while helping the Product team understand complexity and tradeoffs. Developing across the entire full stack of our product, driving features from idea to production and rapidly delivering value to our customers that makes a real impact.
• Team Collaboration: Collaborate closely with a cross-functional agile development team, including other Software Engineers, Product Management, Quality Assurance, and Design.
• Infrastructure Enhancement: Participate in the buildout of improvements to our development, staging, and production environments in cooperation with our Infrastructure team as needed.
• Build Quality into the Process: Develop software under a true Test Driven mindset with an increasing focus on Quality, Performance, and Reliability.
• Customer Engagement: Understanding our customers is a cornerstone of our organizational success. Consequently, your role will involve visits to our customers.

You'll be a great fit for this role if:

• Proven experience as a software engineer in modern agile SaaS environments, with a focus on building scalable SaaS solutions. 3+ years of experience building and deploying scalable SaaS applications.
• 3+ years of experience with a modern frontend technology, preferably Vue.js (which is our primary framework, although experience in React or similar frameworks is also valued), and 3+ years of experience with backend technologies preferably Python or Go (though equivalent modern frameworks are acceptable)
• Track record of successful product feature decisions and system improvements with a large focus on secure coding practices and standards to meet the needs of enterprise class customers and their data.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native technologies and concepts such as cloud providers, databases, application performance, scalability and security
• Curiosity for new technologies. You’re someone who actively seeks to stay informed about the latest frameworks, software advancements, and tools utilized by industry peers. You like contrasting and comparing technologies to find why one fits better for certain use-cases than the other.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and familiarity with modern development practices.
• Experience with enterprise applications is highly preferred.
• Exceptional communication skills for conveying complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.

Current Tech Stack

Backend

• Elasticsearch Redis as the main databases
• API service in Python running in Kubernetes
• Daily pre-computations run in Airflow
• Machine learning
  • AI models - neural networks
  • Machine Learning Eng focused on experimenting with ways to improve existing models, building new models - training and developing models and deploying them

Frontend

• Vue.js/Nuxt.js Vue v2 - Vue v3 soon
  • UI Frontend frameworks
• Docker and kubernetes to deploy
• Semaphore for CI/CD

While we have a well-established tech stack, we welcome highly skilled developers who are passionate about learning and expanding their skill set. Don't have experience with everything listed here, but eager to learn? If so, we encourage you to apply!

Benefits:

• Competitive Salaries + Company Stock Options - we want to pay you well (and equitably!) and make you feel like an owner.
• Flexible Schedule - we think high levels of autonomy, responsibility, and working asynchronously foster an amazing workplace.
• $450 Quarterly Remote Working Stipend - to iterate and upgrade your WFH setup, cover cell phone/internet bills or even toward your commute.
• Biannual Company Paid Off-sites - time for us to be together, brainstorm, and make magic happen.