Who We Are
Float is the world’s main software program for groups to plan their time. Launched in 2012, we’ve grown yearly since, and stay proudly impartial, self-funded and worthwhile. As an authorized B Company, we’re dedicated to creating a constructive contribution to our crew, clients, the atmosphere, and the distant neighborhood. We’re a crew of fifty working 100% remotely who imagine in dwelling our Finest Work Life. You’ll associate with crew members globally, together with Australia, Mexico, Italy, Nigeria, Canada, and the USA. Evaluation our knowledge safety pointers about our employment or service contracts right here. Hear what our crew has to say by shopping our weblog, or studying our Glassdoor opinions. Try what our clients consider Float from our G2 opinions.
We’re on a scale up journey, and we’re searching for individuals who thrive on this stage. We would like Float to be the place the place you could have the autonomy and the chance to do the most effective work of your profession.
Why We’re Hiring For This Function
Float is evolving to satisfy the calls for of our 2025 Mission & Technique, transitioning in direction of an event-driven knowledge and course of circulation to reinforce scalability and maintainability. To help this shift, we’re making key inside transitions, which create essential capability gaps that we’re in search of two Senior Again-Finish Engineers to handle.
Your work will immediately form the way forward for our product, driving user-centric enhancements and making certain efficient interoperability throughout our platform. You’ll play a key function in increasing and sustaining third-party integrations, conserving them a core power whereas additionally contributing to data-driven options that improve our product’s intelligence, decision-making, and talent to offer significant solutions. Past this, you’ll sort out complicated engineering challenges — constructing scalable, high-performance back-end techniques that empower groups to plan and allocate sources successfully at a worldwide scale. Working in a fast-moving, remote-first atmosphere, you’ll have the autonomy to make impactful selections whereas collaborating with a crew that values technical excellence, steady studying, and innovation. Your contributions can be instrumental in advancing your squad’s roadmap and evolving our product to raised help groups worldwide.
Our Companies Crew Lead, Christian, explains the essential function you’ll play inside our Companies crew. Watch this video!
You’ll be working asynchronously with a shiny, devoted crew from throughout the globe, with a powerful deal with taking complicated issues and creating options that really feel easy and intuitive for our clients.
Our most important back-end engineering stack consists of:
- PHP, Node.js, Python
- MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Neo4j
- Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Internet Companies
- Kafka, RabbitMQ
What You’ll Be Accountable For
Early on, you’ll leap proper into:
- Possession of Again-Finish Improvement: Take possession of essential back-end initiatives inside your squad, making certain continuity in ongoing and deliberate work. This contains constructing and optimizing APIs, enhancing system reliability, and increasing integrations to help evolving product wants.
- Enhancing Reliability & Efficiency: Enhance observability, logging, and monitoring to scale back friction in key workflows, tackle efficiency bottlenecks, and improve system stability.
- Driving Scalable Product Options: Contribute to the event of latest and present capabilities, serving to groups make smarter selections and optimize workflows by way of clever, data-driven options.
As soon as you’re a bit extra settled, we anticipate that you’ll leap into the next tasks:
- Cross-Crew Collaboration: Work carefully with product, engineering, and platform groups to make sure seamless alignment between product options and core infrastructure.
- Proactively Determine & Remedy Bottlenecks: Proactively floor and tackle scaling challenges, optimizing techniques for future progress and guarantee clean scaling and help for Float’s ICP priorities.
- Optimize & Preserve Again-Finish Programs: Guarantee efficiency, reliability, and scalability as utilization expands, balancing technical excellence with velocity of supply.
- Lead Improvement of New Capabilities: Assist form new product options that improve consumer expertise, automation, and real-time knowledge accessibility.
What You’ll Want To Be Profitable
We would like you to like your work and imagine that these abilities will can help you succeed within the function. Making use of these abilities requires:
- Sturdy understanding of engineering rules for delivering high-quality providers in a growth-stage enterprise.
- Expertise designing and constructing providers for fashionable cloud architectures on platforms like GCP and AWS
- Proficiency in PHP and Node.js inside a manufacturing atmosphere.
- Experience in SQL and NoSQL database applied sciences, with a deal with MySQL and MongoDB.
- Expertise in designing and creating providers inside a microservices structure.
- Familiarity with serverless architectures (e.g., Cloud Run, App Engine) and the flexibility to discern acceptable utilization eventualities.
- Information of event-driven and asynchronous architectures for constructing scalable and dependable distributed techniques.
- Expertise creating integrations with third-party APIs.
- Capacity to work independently and make selections whereas recognizing the boundaries of experience and figuring out when to hunt enter or help from teammates.
- Sturdy written communication abilities to convey concepts, doc options, and preserve efficient collaboration throughout a globally distributed crew.
- A robust deal with the end-user expertise, with the flexibility to advocate for enhancements and supply constructive suggestions to engineers, designers, and product managers.
- A sensible strategy to problem-solving, balancing the necessity for fast, useful options with long-term targets and enhancements.
As a totally distant crew, we’re in search of somebody comfy with asynchronous communication because the default, which implies you could have earlier distant expertise and are comfy utilizing instruments like Slack, Loom, and Linear to speak as wanted. Don’t fear—you’ll have important deep work time since now we have only a few conferences.
Why Be part of Us
Pay for this function is US $167,471 (Degree 3). Right here’s a weblog submit with extra data on how we decide our salaries.
We’re a worldwide async distant firm with a various crew of individuals from everywhere in the world who share a typical perception in dwelling our finest work life. We imagine deeply within the concept of transparency and share our Float Handbook publicly so potential new crew members can see first hand our perks & advantages in addition to our methods of working. If you happen to really feel like you possibly can thrive at Float to do your finest work, we’d love to listen to from you.
Hiring Course of For This Function
You’ll discover quite a lot of helpful details about our interview course of and what it’s like to affix our international crew on the Float careers web page. The hiring course of for this function appears to be like like this:
Preliminary First Meet (20 min): You may meet with Ashley, Expertise Coordinator, to debate your curiosity within the function and overview your questions on working at Float.
Take-Dwelling Project (4 hours, paid): You’ll full a take-home technical task that may assess your skill to determine and talk efficiency points on an actual utility and counsel options. You can be paid an honorarium after completion of your take-home task, and can obtain suggestions in your task whatever the consequence.
Technical Interview (45 min): You’ll meet with Christian (Companies Crew Lead) and Omar (Senior Software Engineer) to debate your technical expertise and abilities, in addition to deep dive into your take-home task.
Co-Employee Interview (30 min): You’ll meet with Roberto (Senior Workers Engineer) and Manan (Senior Companies Engineer), to dive deeper into your abilities and expertise, and be taught extra about your skill to collaborate, talk, and work cross-functionally.
Founder Interview (30 min): You’ll meet with Lars, Float’s CTO and Co-Founder, to get to know you and see you probably have potential to be a fantastic addition to the crew.
Notice: Business analysis exhibits that ladies and people in historically underrepresented teams typically don’t apply to jobs until they test all of the packing containers for the function. If you happen to really feel strongly that you’ve got what it takes for this function however don’t test 100% of the packing containers—that’s okay—we encourage you to use anyway and spotlight what you possibly can convey to the desk.
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