Back End Engineer

About minware

minware provides engineering business metrics that show the true cost of engineering impediments. This helps organizations make better decisions with stronger alignment between engineers and executives.

Kevin Borders founded minware after bootstrapping his previous company to $86m in revenue and selling in 2021, with the idea of helping others benefit from lessons learned growing an engineering team from 0 to 40.

minware is a self-funded seed-stage company. After promising initial customer traction, we are looking for people who share our values to help bring minware to a larger audience.

The Role

As an early engineer, you will have the unique opportunity to work directly with minware's founders to build the product from the ground up. We are looking for someone who enjoys designing, developing, and maintaining back-end applications.

We are seeking an ambitious and nice engineer who has experience independently executing complex projects and building scalable, maintainable software. As a purveyor of developer productivity analytics, we are diligent about process efficiency and code quality. Though we are small, we try to avoid unnecessarily creating technical debt and are looking for someone who can lead us toward this goal.

Primary Responsibilities

Independently design, develop, and maintain server-side applications, ensuring the optimal performance, security, and scalability of our service

Work closely with product managers and customers to define minware's capabilities

Design and architect new system components

Manage a backlog of tech debt reduction and internal efficiency improvements Qualifications

Experience building and maintaining a complex back end application

Familiarity with principles of high-quality code, including continuous integration, declarative and functional programming

Strong communication skills for interfacing with non-technical stakeholders and occasionally with customers

Well-versed in agile or lean planning and project management processes

Experience with the core stack (Postgres, Next.js, Apollo GraphQL) or similar technologies is preferred

Proficiency with infrastructure (AWS, Terraform) is optional, but nice to have Benefits and Perks

Competitive base salary, bonus, and seed-stage equity compensation

100% remote work, flexible hours, and unlimited vacation policy. (Read here about how we built trust in our previous all-remote company.)

Full health care premium coverage for you and your family

Unique career development guidance reporting directly to the founder/CEO

We offer competitive compensation packages along with stock options based on industry benchmarks for function, and level. Offer amounts are determined by multiple factors such as a candidate's experience and expertise.

Base Compensation:

$120,000-$190,000 USD