About the job Software Engineer new
SuperAwesome powers the youth digital media ecosystem, which is used by hundreds of brands and content owners. Our award-winning technology provides the tools for safer, responsible digital engagement with almost half a billion young people worldwide every month. At the intersection of technology, law, media and policy, working with us gives you a chance to shape what the internet of the future looks like.
Our customers are focused on successfully engaging with the global under-18 audience, and so we try to bring the behaviours of that audience to our own work. We move at speed, were curious, were innovators.
What You'll Do
As a Software Engineer at SuperAwesome you will develop one of our existing products as part of a highly skilled and mission driven team committed to keeping a very high quality bar, evolving the system while keeping it simple, and focusing on having the highest impact on the end product.
You will work closely with the Tech Lead and the other engineers in your team to define the appropriate technical approach, success metrics, and delivery timelines. You will have your say in the product roadmap and help the team and the Product Manager to make the most informed decisions to break down complex tech deliverables into simple and understandable user stories.
Quality is key for us, so you will ensure all product components are built to an appropriate level of quality for the stage (alpha/beta/production), deliver products using the appropriate level of testing and monitoring, fail fast, and learn and iterate frequently. You will champion continuous improvement and always aim to improve the product your team owns and measure your impact with the appropriate tech, product, or delivery metrics.
In this role, you will
Youll join a team committed to high-speed iterations, high code quality, and continuous improvement via agile processes
While most of the work is on the back-end of our systems, youll work across the full application stack depending on where you can drive the highest impact
Youll work with your team to design and implement features and services for the product your team owns, and keep the design choices well documented and explained
Youll drive quality and reliability from the get go, lowering the complexity of the system
You will master the domains youll be working on, and will break complex goals down to simple and easy-to-maintain deliverables
Youll ensure long-term quality, scalability and maintainability of our systems
Youll champion the devops culture, treat operations with a mission-critical mindset, and support the live system in production, including participation in our out-of-hours on-call rota
Our stack is entirely cloud native, and it includes technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Kafka, Node.js and Typescript.
What we're looking for
We wholeheartedly believe a good engineer can pick up any new technology in a reasonable amount of time and youll be given training and help during your onboarding to become fully proficient with our stack. What we expect you to already have is good will, as well as a deep understanding of full-stack software development life-cycle, devops methodologies, testing, and tooling.
Well ask you about your previous experiences building large and complex high-throughput web systems, and well hear the stories youll be willing to share about microservices, event-driven architectures, databases, or any tech challenge youve enjoyed. Well want to know how you went about improving the quality, security, scalability, and observability of the products you worked on, and how you would try to repeat that success at SuperAwesome. DevOps practices are an integral part of our culture, and well want to hear what aspect of them you prefer, and what worked well for you out of the box, or how you adapted them to your needs.
In a nutshell, were looking for a great engineer, and well do our best to identify the greatness in you
Requirements
5 + years of experience with node.js
3 + years with AWS, databases
2+ years of experience with TypeScript
Recent experience with working on one project for at least 2 years
Nestjs - nice to have