Senior Software Engineer
Kipsu is a growth stage Minneapolis-based technology company that has grown to over 120 employees. At Kipsu, we help service professionals Meet the Moment - from partnering with some of the largest hospitality brands in the world to working with clients in the multifamily and healthcare industries. Our best-in-class technology enables organizations around the globe to better serve their customers through streamlined messaging, data-driven performance metrics, sentiment analysis and workflow management. As one of the Twin Cities' leading tech companies, Kipsu has cultivated a reputation for a strong company culture and is consistently recognized by the Star Tribune as a Top Workplace.
THE OPPORTUNITY
You'll join an expanding and accelerating team of Software Engineers that use a wide range of tools to ensure our application stays on the leading edge of connecting organizations with their customers. Our developers work with Kotlin, PHP, Typescript, React, Angular, React Native, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, REST APIs, and AWS services like EC2, SQS, S3, Lambda, among others. The engineering team has a tight partnership with our product team and executives and they see the impact of their work on Kipsu's business every day.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and support world-class software across a range of tech stacks in a SaaS environment
- Use design patterns, best practices, and the right mix of object oriented and functional programming techniques to solve complex business problems
- Bring expertise in agile software development to a cross functional delivery team
- Use advanced source code management and devops tools and practices in your day to day engineering work
- Coach and mentor other developers through peer reviews, pair programming, workshops, and by bringing a best-in-class development culture mindset into your teams
- Join our Platform practice - a team of engineers dedicated to designing, building, and supporting world-class backend software engines
- Help us maintain 24/7 SLAs by occasionally (2-3 weeks/yr) being on call for after hours support
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex bugs and production issues while minimizing downtime to customers
- Help advance our standard of excellence in technical design
- Help advance our standard of excellence in engineering practices
- Liaison with stakeholders inside and outside of Kipsu in day to day work
- Ask thoughtful and relevant questions to analysts and other business stakeholders in order to better solve the problem at hand
- Lead technical external customer meetings to design and troubleshoot technical solutions
- Make improvements to modules/libraries/services and go out of your way to help others learn from it
- Proactively document and share knowledge to enable others to learn, improve, and achieve
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
- Passion for designing, building, delivering, and supporting world-class software
- Ability to lead within scaled day to day Agile environment
- A desire not just to work within the existing status quo, but rather a true drive to be a "builder" and shape a modern stack that is critical to our business
- A deliberate delivery mindset and attention to detail
- An ability to partner with client-facing teammates to help create insights out of information
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- A willingness to help mentality where "not my job" is not part of the vocabulary
- Ability to appropriately manage individual and team workload, escalations, and roadblocks
- Persistence in reaching your goals, even when you've run into some obstacles along the way
WHAT MAKES KIPSU DIFFERENT
- We're a solid, stable company, and we enthusiastically embrace our founding startup spirit- everyone pitching in and working to the same goals.
- Our culture- We have a team of highly motivated colleagues who are all in it together. We all succeed as one, and we all learn from our mistakes holding our interdependence in high regard.
- Our unique philosophy- we bootstrapped this company ourselves and are in it for the long-term. There is a distinct sense of purpose and ownership at Kipsu as we do things on our own terms.
- Remarkable growth- with nearly a decade of advancement, we continue to accelerate. It's an exciting time to be here.
WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT HERE
- Unity- Everyone here is committed to the same mission. Our core values are not platitudes but our pact. We believe in the best in each other while always reaching to be better.
- Transparency- Our leadership gets into the details. We all gather for weekly space to discover how each team is doing so that we have a full understanding of the business and think like a CEO.
- Trust- Our team members are given the trust and license to excel at their jobs, and are supported along the way to continuously grow.
- Mentorship - We all have more to learn and something to teach. The lessons are beyond technical. We celebrate our busy hive of shared growth.
- Respect- Our success and future as an industry leader depend on actionable commitment to cultivating a diverse and equitable team. Everyone here has a voice that is heard and respected. We seek open and honest conversation on our journey to be active stewards of our shared communities.
- Purpose- Everyone here is closely connected to the result of their work. Every day our team gets to see the impact of what they do enhancing the value of our customers' work in their own professions. Our goals are explicitly tethered to our mission of building relationships.
One last thing - At Kipsu, we believe that our values, success, and future as a leader in our industry require a vibrant and diverse workforce. This is one of the many challenges we seek to solve, and we are intentional and active in recruiting talent of all identities and building an environment that is inclusive of all backgrounds. We need your contribution to our team. Please consider rolling up your sleeves and joining us on our journey.