Senior Software Engineer Jobs

What You'll Do

• Deliver vertical slices that cover frontend, API, backend, and DB.
• Test and build robust test and deployment systems and processes.
• Design new features to fulfill product user stories.
• Mentor junior engineers, reviewing code, collaborating on code.
• Work cross functionally between teams, time zones and cultures to achieve deliverables
• Communicate in our written forums and actively participate in regular team standups (Zoom).

What We’re Looking For

• Strong natural collaborator. Collaborate effectively with product managers, designers, and engineers to identify potential issues, roadblocks, and parallelize engineering efforts.
• Exceptional technical decision making. Experience identifying and weighing many potential tradeoffs across Product & Engineering and make good decisions.
• 8+ years of senior engineering work. You have built and operated complex web applications in an agile, small team or company setting. B2B Saas startup experience preferred.
• A palpable passion for Valence’s stage and size. You have clear motivations for wanting to work at a Series A startup as your next professional challenge.
• High ownership mentality. You have owned parts of the code or workflows before and understand how to motivate others, balance the tradeoffs in service of quality outcomes.
• Strong natural communicator. We work in a hybrid and cross-cultural environment across many time zones - exceptional written and verbal communications skills are required to make this model work well.
• Experience building SPA web applications. Our front-end is built in Typescript/React, and our back-end is PHP and Laravel. Ideally you have experience in a “similar” stack - but we expect that engineers can learn and pick up tools they need to use.

Why Valence

• Ownership of projects and strategic priorities regardless of seniority in our learning-focused environment.
• Ability to make a significant contribution to Valence on a lean engineering team having an outsized impact.
• Provision of anything you need to be successful - learning tools, hardware, office equipment, software.
• Generous PTO, company-wide R&R shutdowns and paid leave for parents.
• Strong ties to the executive team, a culture of transparency and engagement with strategic decisions.
• Competitive salary and equity packages.
• A WFH stipend, phone stipend and merch merch merch.
• Comprehensive health coverage from day 1.
• Options from day one, which means you will be on the ownership track right away.
• Virtual doctor and mental health services from day 1.