Staff Software Engineer

About the role
As a Staff Software Engineer at Reserv, you'll be at the heart of our growth journey, shaping the future of our technology and platform. You are a passionate engineer with proven successfully leading and executing on large projects. Reserv will be depending on you and your team to build a beautiful, powerful product from a user-story driven front-end all the way and a scalable back-end to robust APIs that make it easy to connect us with other next-generation solutions. For this role, we are seeking engineers with strong full-stack software engineering skills with a curiosity for systems, a proclivity for end-to-end ownership of features, and an ability to both run independently and collaborate well with fellow engineers and business-side teammates. If you are ready to mold the vision for Reserv’s technology, join us on the journey.

What we need

• Excel at defining the vision around delivering business-impacting goals
• I rapidly deliver against large, cross-funtional, high-impact projects, proactively identifying and mititgigate risk.
• I can clearly communicate with executive level stakeholders both internally and externally
• Work with our tech stack: Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Typescript, React, GraphQL, NextJS, AWS
• Help distill the core interactions a customer of Reserv will need to be successful in using our product, from the homepage, to the developer dashboard, to documentation centers and SDKs
• Ship code that improves the developer experience, including the homepage, developer dashboard, Connect, SDKs, and the documentation center
• Build frontend and backend components that improve the Reserv integration experience
• Commit on your first day, and deploy code continuously
• Support developers at customer companies
• As we scale our product & engineering teams, collaborate closely with our product ops, design, and sales teams, as well as mentor junior engineers
• Communicate ideas and specifications through detailed, precise writing
• Influence the culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team
• Support the engineering function globally
• Enjoy and have fun being creative and thinking outside of the box. You will need to draw on analogous situations you’ve worked on before, but we are not traversing well-traveled roads. “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!”

Requirements

• 10 years of experience as an individual contributor with experience using modern programming languages and front-end frameworks
• Have a strong demonstrated ability to ship high-quality products, both at work and outside of work. We love engineers that build side-projects or contribute to open-source repos
• A passion for building intuitive technology and a thirst for learning
• Able to think through customer requirements and prioritize what is a must-have, nice-to-have, or irrelevant
• Have a strong technical skillset but also the willingness and ability to take over tasks outside your core competency

Benefits

• Generous health-insurance package with nationwide coverage, vision, & dental 
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching 
• Competitive PTO policy – we want our employees fresh, healthy, happy and energized
• Generous family leave policy 
• Work from almost anywhere to facilitate your work life balance 
• Cool, functional swag
• Apple laptop, large second monitor, and other quality-of-life equipment you may want

At Reserv, we value diversity in backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences and believe that diversity in viewpoints and critical thinking drives innovation, first-principles thinking, and success. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage those from all walks of life to apply. If you believe you are a good fit for this role, we would love to hear from you!