Senior Full Stack Engineer

| Greater NYC Area | Hybrid
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MISSION

At Hello Alfred, we believe in creating an experience that empowers our customers to maximize their time by automating all of life’s little interruptions. We are dedicated to building solutions that learn from our customers’ behaviors and desires to delight them - not just by incorporating technology, but by making a truly human experience.

We’re seeking Senior Full Stack Engineers with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology.

As part of a growing Hello Alfred engineering team, you will have a direct and immediate influence on the technology choices, architecture, and scalability of the platform. You will help develop our engineering philosophy and practices to lead the construction of a new type of service. Hello Alfred offers the opportunity to work closely with all aspects of a multi-sided business from our operations team, customers and - the stars of the business - the Alfred Client Managers.

DESCRIPTION

  • Your interest in development extends past coding; you have a passion for products and a perspective on user experience and product design as you will:
    • Own a Robust Goal
    • Partner with Product and
    • Have a point of view on architecture and hold your own on design
  • You understand quality, DevOps, prototyping, and experimentation
  • You’re more interested in finding the optimal solution than using a particular language or framework.
  • ​Our Stack: React, Swift, Node.js, Elixir, and Mongo/PostgreSQL moving to React, React Native, PHP 7, and PostgreSQL. An eye towards Python, Cassandra, and TensorFlow for ML and other technologies as appropriate for each major area of future development. Shifting our infrastructure to Docker and Kubernetes.
  • You’re excited about using technology to solve a complex business problem.
  • You’re interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails​.
  • Other important skills
    • Software engineering craftsmanship
    • You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies
    • The ability to effectively lead a high performing dev team
    • Capable of running effective sprints in a fluid environment

WHAT YOU’LL DO

  • Craft the architecture, develop our Core Features, and collaborate with our Product and Design teams to build something useful and beautiful.​
  • Have the chance to shape a growing organization with its design, processes and operations.

REQUIRED SKILLS

  • ​Required Skills: At least 5-7 years experience across the full web stack: you can write SCSS, keep logic out of controllers, and properly index your database tables. You also have empathy, taste, and hobbies outside of engineering.
  • Ideally you have shipped production code using Node.js or PHP 7 and have a familiarity working on a web stack powered by Laravel or similar. Having a good working knowledge of modern Javascript is essential.
  • Nice to Haves: Experience with React Native for iOS and Android. An interest in UX and hospitality.

BENEFITS

  • Competitive annual salary (contract position available)
  • Your choice of computer
  • Roof deck
  • Great benefits
  • Tell us what you need to be successful

THE COMPANY

We imagine that if you’re reading this, you may be like us and have a notable obsession with the Conundrum of Time. Where does time go? How do we make it last? How can we maximize it successfully, supremely, spectacularly? You sound like a particular brand of superhero, and we’ve been searching far and wide to meet you.

Hello Alfred is quickly establishing itself as one of the most disruptive commerce channels around, trusted to deliver services and goods past your door. Block-by-block, city-by-city, we’re building a marketplace, lighting up homes with the Alfred OS and service promise: to ensure Alfred members always Come Home Happy.

We are looking for the next generation of leaders in CX, Engineering, Ops, Marketing, and more. Our priority and path to success has always been putting people first and we've nurtured a culture that challenges us to be our collective best, while balancing life and work. We hire driven, detail-oriented, ruthlessly efficient, positive, excellent communicators. Our team members have backgrounds that include experience in similar startup environments, operations, consulting, hospitality, or folks who thrive in challenging and ambitious settings.

As a superhero, we will expect you to eclipse tall expectations every day. We set a high bar for ourselves, and we’re looking for folks who inherently have a high bar for themselves.

Side note: we only hire extremely polite and hospitable people.

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Location

Two blocks up from Battery Park, Alfred is no more than a ten-minute walk to water south, east, and west. Our office is easy to get to with many subway lines, ferries, and the PATH within a short walk.

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