Staff Software Developer

Sunshine Conversations powers conversational experiences between people and organizations through an omnichannel experience from a wide range of channels such as WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Telegram and more. We are looking for a Staff Software Developer to join the team and contribute to our core platform, API and channels.

What you’ll be doing

• Make core contributions to our platform, architecture, and data models.
• Be responsible for the proper execution of features, from the design of the solution to its delivery.
• Write well-structured and well-tested code considering performance, reliability and scaling of our products.
• Work with new technologies in a culture open to creative ideas.
• Work as part of our team on the creation of technical proposals and on the implementation of complex and high-visibility functionalities.
• Cooperate with international teams based in San Francisco, Melbourne and others.
• Be part of the team’s on-call rotation.
• Participate in the development life-cycle including conception, design, implementation, testing, rollout and making everything run efficiently in production.

What you bring to the role

Required qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with Node.js, Express and TypeScript, or a comparable web stack.
• Development experience with a deep understanding of asynchronous code.
• Autonomy to carry a project through its execution, while also knowing when to ask for help.
• A collaborative attitude, contributing to an enjoyable work environment that promotes teamwork throughout the organization.

Preferred qualifications: 

• Experience with some technologies in our tech stack.
• Experience working in a SaaS company.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams.
• Verbal and written communication skills in French.

Tech Stack

• Our application code is mostly written in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python and Ruby.
• Our main backend runs on Node.js and Express. Most of our frontend runs on React.
• Our data is stored on MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, S3 and queued or streamed through RabbitMQ, Kafka and SQS.
• Our workloads run on Kubernetes clusters running on AWS.