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The Role
We are looking for a talented and passionate Senior Full-stack Engineer to join Kaizen Labs. You will be responsible for leading and building initiatives to empower municipalities with beautiful, powerful digital experiences. These interfaces are web applications that allow users to generate permits, make public reservations, participate in community events, take public transit, and so much more.
Location
This is a hybrid role. You will be expected to join our team in person in New York City for three days a week.
Technical Challenges Unique to Kaizen…
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Managing deployments as we scale our customers, ensuring our systems can handle increasing user loads and feature complexity.
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Solving technical challenges around integrating with external hardware such as QR code scanners, Apple Wallet, and cash registers, ensuring seamless interactions.
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Developing accessible and inclusive solutions for diverse user groups, including multilingual support.
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Creating software that aligns with our mission to improve communities and empower users, with a focus on making a real-world impact.
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Scaling and deploying the platform for thousands of local municipalities while building reusable, customizable components to meet unique needs.
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Ensuring a beautiful, intuitive, and high-performance product experience for all users, balancing features with usability.
What You’ll Do...
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Own, build, and ship new features end-to-end across all levels of the stack.
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Take shared ownership of the product process, and collaborate with product and design teams to craft great user experiences.
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Write high-quality testable code that's functional and long-term maintainable.
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Contribute to high-level architectural decisions, and help to design scalable and efficient systems.
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Work and interact directly with customers to help find the best short and long-term solutions for their needs.
What You’ll Bring...
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6+ years of professional software development experience.
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Experience in leading or owning large-scale, data-intensive projects.
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Proficiency in modern technologies such as Typescript/Javascript/React/Node.js.
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Strong CS fundamentals and experience with web technologies (HTML/JS/CSS) and GraphQL APIs.
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Strong written and verbal communication.
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Customer-obsessed - you care about providing a good user experience and ensure you fully understand user needs before diving into engineering solutions.
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Exercise sound judgment when making tradeoffs to balance short-term needs with investing in long-term foundation.
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Self-aware of strengths and weaknesses, takes initiative, and seeks to learn and improve constantly.
Strong Candidates May Also Have…
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Experience in building and scaling e-commerce applications
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Some experience with platform and security engineering
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Experience with Vercel, Render, GCP, GitHub Actions
Benefits & Company Salary Range
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Platinum PPO health care plus premium coverage for dental & vision
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Unlimited PTO
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Competitive equity grants
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Employer-sponsored 401k
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Salary bands range from $100 - 250k
Kaizen Labs New York, New York, USA Office
17 W 20th St, Fl 5, New York, New York, United States, 10011
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