Beautiful.ai is looking to solve the problem of making it easy for anyone to make beautiful presentations, in minutes, by building fast, foolproof tools that enable anyone to tell visual stories that win.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with react, typescript, javascript, and full stack development is required.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in Software Engineering, with a product development focus.
- Proven track record of delivering high impact product features from product definition and planning through execution to successful completion.
- Client Side: React, Webpack, vanilla Typsescript/Javascript for SVG layout, rendering, and styling
- Server Side: Node.js with Express for API and server side rendering, various distributed node.js microservices
- Infrastructure on Google Cloud: App Engine, Firebase, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Stackdriver, Storage
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of high-impact features and services across the full stack using JavaScript, Node.js, React, CSS, and MongoDB, ensuring scalability, performance, maintainability, and a delightful user experience.
- Provide technical leadership within the team, driving best practices and ensuring that high engineering standards are maintained across the product.
- Mentor and guide senior and junior engineers, helping them grow their technical expertise and ensuring effective knowledge sharing within the team.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, and other engineering teams, to shape the direction of new features and improvements.
- Own complex technical challenges, from troubleshooting and debugging to optimizing performance and improving the architecture of core components.
- Define and implement technical strategies for improving the overall product, such as optimizing front-end performance and reliability, improving code quality, or enhancing the CI/CD pipeline.
- Troubleshoot and resolve incidents during on-call rotations, ensuring minimal downtime and fast recovery.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). A Master’s degree is a plus.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to take on a role of a thought leader for the team and influence technical decisions throughout the organization.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with organizational leadership to help shape engineering strategy, influence resourcing decisions, and contribute to effective team design.
- Bay Area candidates preferred, or open to occasional travel as needed.
