Weedmaps is looking to shape the vision and architecture of its next generation backend infrastructure to make it easy for developers to build products and features. The company aims to build the world's best cannabis enterprise marketplace and a robust portfolio of enterprise products to help clients and the cannabis industry flourish, addressing the complexities of explosive growth and differentiated legal requirements.
Requirements
- 12-15+ years of software development experience with 3+ years of SaaS architectural experience in high-growth engineering organizations
- Experience in writing quality production code in server side Javascript, such as Node.js
- Experience with frameworks that provide structure for Node.js such as Express.js, NestJS, and Adonis.js
- Experience with exceptional architecture and clean coding practices
- Able to collaborate on long-term architectural vision, and articulate and evangelize that vision in and out of the company
- Experience working in an e-commerce space building applications and technology to engage consumers and foster growth
- Exposure to integrations and design, cloud based technologies, and latest mobile architectures
Responsibilities
- Provide technical direction for the overarching Weedmap’s technology stack leveraging Service Oriented Architecture patterns using server side Javascript such as Node.js or similar runtime environment
- Develop architectures that are secure, scalable, robust, modular, API-centric, and follow the principle of least astonishment
- Build long term technical strategies that align with Weedmap’s business plan and influence the overall technical direction
- Support the application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release and support). Follow established development, documentation, testing and deployment processes.
- Partner closely with engineers and leaders across different disciplines and teams to gather information, listen to multiple viewpoints and come up with solutions to drive the technical direction forward.
- Act as an ambassador for the organization at technology conferences and events
- Communicate technical roadblocks and solutions with executive leadership
Other
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree / work experience, including code camps or self-taught programmers
- Effective and persuasive communication skills at all levels of management and engineers, both written and verbal
- Experience working collaboratively at a high level with other teams within an organization
- Breadth of knowledge and passion spanning front-end and back-end technologies.
- Mentor, educate and coach engineers across the technology organization
