Staff Software Engineer - Product
San Francisco, CA · Remote
Senior +1 · Full time
Posted a year ago
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The Qualified Engineering Team
Our engineers work across the full tech stack allowing us to stay nimble as we innovate and iterate to build an impactful product and business. We’re a small powerhouse team, with lots of exciting things to build and big plans to grow. We love building cool things, solving hard problems and making a big impact on the success of our customers and our own company.
 
Our technology
Qualified is a modern web app with a React UI interfacing over GraphQL, REST, and WebSockets with a Ruby on Rails backend. The data and messaging layers are built on PostgreSQL and Redis.
Our service is business-critical for our customers. Security, reliability, and performance are paramount in everything we do.
 
Your role
As a Staff Software Engineer at Qualified, you will lead engineering efforts to help solve technically challenging and ambiguous problems by building amazing products and guiding the standards of across the engineering organization. Our product team needs to continue to experiment and iterate on new products and features rapidly while operating within safe boundaries, and we will look to you to help us improve the processes, shape our roadmaps and mentor engineers. You will have an opportunity to work closely with customers who use the products you helped build everyday, collecting immediate feedback to continuously improve our platform.

Your Responsibilities

  • Develop amazing customer-focused applications by building new features, improving existing ones and building out completely new products.
  • Contribute in the product process: collaborate closely with Product Managers, Product Designers & Backend Engineering to ideate and develop critical applications in our product.
  • Ensure the core functionality of our business is stable, scalable, well maintained, and continuously improving.
  • Continue to grow your technical skills to solve our hardest technical challenges around quality, performance, robustness, and reliability.
  • Help us build our team’s culture and shape our future by mentoring other engineers and setting engineering excellence standards.
  • Help us define a long term technical direction and vision for maintaining and scaling our web and mobile applications.
  • Help support and scale highly-available, highly-trafficked services that our customers depend on for time-sensitive, business-critical functionality.

Who You Are

  • You love building things, solving complex technical problems and making a real-world impact.
  • You take pride in building elegant and easy-to-use products.
  • You thrive working in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.
  • You excel at understanding and solving complex problems. You have astonishing attention to detail.
  • You are adept at evaluating new technologies and introducing new subsystems as the footprint and complexity of our product grows.

Requirements

  • 8+ years experience in professional Full Stack software development
  • Deep experience working with SQL and RDBMS (PostgreSQL preferred) and data warehousing solutions.
  • Expertise in working with all components of a modern web application.
  • Recent experience in leading large-scale projects while guiding and mentoring other developers.
  • Strong software engineering practices (e.g. coding, unit testing, code reviews, design documentation).
  • B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)
About Qualified
 
Qualified is the #1 Pipeline Cloud for revenue teams that use Salesforce, on a mission to disrupt how B2B companies generate pipeline.
 
Headquartered in San Francisco, Qualified was founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneurs Kraig Swensrud (former CMO of Salesforce.com) and Sean Whiteley, a duo with a proven track record in enterprise software. Their first company, search marketing firm Kieden, was acquired by Salesforce in 2006, Their second company, online survey and customer experience platform GetFeedback, was acquired by Campaign Monitor in 2014, and later acquired by SurveyMonkey in 2019. Qualified is an early-stage, fast-paced, fast-growing startup in the SOMA area of San Francisco. The company has raised $163M in venture funding, and is backed by Norwest Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Tiger Global, Sapphire, and Salesforce Ventures.
 
Qualified has three main values that are carried throughout everything they do:
 
One Team
We’re all in this together with a shared goal: grow the business and each other.  Work as a team, win as a team.  Collaborate and strategize across departments to deliver A+ work.  We are bold thought leaders that value creating a sense of belonging for all and celebrating our wins, big or small.
 
Customer Obsessed
Prioritize the customer above everything else. Build a product that our customers love. Establish ourselves as their trusted advisor and do “Whatever it takes” to make them successful. Prove the ROI. Only when our customers win do we win.
 
Think Big & Move Fast
We’re defining a new category and we have fierce competition. Fast-paced innovation is the name of the game. We look forward. We reimagine. We throw out new ideas. We test things. We move quickly. We challenge the norm. We don’t settle for status quo.
 
On the heels of their Series C financing, Qualified is looking to grow the team so that they can do even more, even faster; they’re focused on delivering our customers more innovation, additional services, an expanded product portfolio, and even deeper ties into the Salesforce CRM platform. Qualified is looking for folks that are fired up about joining a fast-paced, fast-growing company that is doing big things.
 
Diversity & Inclusion
 
Qualified is committed to bringing together individuals from different backgrounds and perspectives. We strive to create an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, feel a sense of belonging, and do great work together.
 
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
Qualified.com
Qualified.com is a B2B marketer that allows buyers and sales reps to connect through real-time website conversations.
Size:  51-100 employees
Funding Level:  Mid-stage Startup
Total Amount Raised:  $68.0 M
Year Founded:  2018
Investors
Salesforce Ventures
Redpoint
Norwest Venture Partners
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