About GlossGenius

GlossGenius is building an ecosystem enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. We empower small business owners to focus on being creators, not admins, by offering a range of business management tools including booking and scheduling, marketing, analytics, payment processing and much more. 

Tens of thousands of small business owners have chosen to rely on GlossGenius every day to run their entire set of business operations. With its powerful, intuitive platform, GlossGenius is some part a fin-tech company, some part an SMB software company, while its vibrant, distinguished brand makes it some part a consumer company.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend you will focus on contributing to our backend services that power our suite of products. Our backend engineers write and maintain our APIs, build the communication between our systems, handle data modeling, deal with events, and ensure we are capturing what is needed for our services to continue scaling as we scale to support hundreds of thousands of professionals booking millions of appointments and processing millions of payment transactions. 

As a Senior Software Engineer, you're a technical lead for larger and more complex projects. You're experienced with owning the architectural design of a system and breaking down projects and guiding and mentoring other engineers.

This role is based in Colombia but remote within the country.

What You’ll Do

• Flexible PTO
• Own projects end to end, from design to implementation, managing complexity and working with stakeholders to think through areas such as business impact, reliability, operability, and security.
• Collaborate with product managers, product design, or other cross-functional stakeholders on roadmap initiatives, product ideation, and prioritization. Break down epics and projects to consumable size for the team and continuous deployment. 
• Produce high-quality code that’s easily testable, readable, and accounts for edge cases and errors.
• Architect tools, services, and systems using well accepted design patterns to allow for iterative autonomous development and future scaling.
• Uphold best practices and high standards for engineering and product quality in addition to mentoring newer team members to do the same.

What We’re Looking For

• 5 years of experience in software engineering
• You have experience leading and owning end-to-end product development and impactful technology initiatives for organizations; you’re able to break down work into manageable tasks for a team and partner with operational teams to roll out changes that affect their workflow
• You have experience working in a collaborative environment involving different functions, stakeholders, and subject matter experts
• You have a desire to work in a fast paced environment, a bias for action, a passion for self-improvement, and helping to elevate and mentor those around you
• Proficiency in both spoken and written English

What we work with: 

We are open to candidates who have worked in different languages but are open to learn

• Ruby (Rails, Sidekiq), Kotlin (micronaut, jooq), GRPC, Protobuf, and Postgres for backend
• Typescript / Javascript (React, Redux) for web
• React-native for mobile

Benefits & Perks 

• Competitive health & dental insurance coverage
• Fully-paid parental leave policy
• Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
• Home office support
• Team Bonding opportunities - as a distributed team, being able to build meaningful bonds both virtually and in person is incredibly important to us! We are constantly evaluating how we accomplish this and currently, teams are given opportunities to gather in person throughout the year

At GlossGenius, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. GlossGenius is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.