Description
About You
You’re a software engineer with a passion for working in a variety of tech stacks. You have a strong desire to interact with people and make their lives easier with technology. You’re a self-starter who’s good at triaging problems and prioritizing issues. You’d love the opportunity to work with an engineering team that includes data scientists, algorithm experts, back-end, and front-end engineers to expand your knowledge.
About the Position
As a JavaScript engineer focused on integrations, you’ll be helping our customers improve the search experiences of their websites and mobile apps by integrating with our services. Your specific responsibilities will include:
- Developing and testing new features for our open source UI and REST client libraries
- Designing and deploying interactive dashboards and alerts for monitoring customer integrations
- Engaging with clients to address technical inquiries regarding our services
- Assisting customers in integrating our JavaScript UI and REST client libraries into their existing codebases
- Validating customer data to ensure the accuracy and quality of results generated by our services
- Staying informed about our products and services to provide effective support and aid in triaging issues
- Collaborating with other teams to prioritize and address customer requirements and needs
About Us
Constructor powers product search and discovery for some of the largest retailers in the world, like Sephora and Petco. We serve billions of requests every day, and you’ve probably seen our results somewhere and used our product without knowing it. We differentiate ourselves by focusing on metrics over features, and reinventing search and discovery from the ground up as a machine learning challenge with the specific goal of improving metrics like revenue. We have grown several hundred percent YoY for the last 2 years and have customers in every eCommerce vertical, around the world, and spanning many languages.We’re a passionate team of technologists who love solving problems and want to make our customers’ and coworkers’ lives better.
We value empathy, openness, curiosity, continuous improvement, and are excited by metrics that matter. We believe that empowering everyone in a company to do what they think is best can lead to great things.
Requirements
- A minimum of two years professional and / or academic experience in software engineering
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience with front end optimization techniques, DOM manipulation / traversing, and using browser debugging tools
- Experience working with server side JavaScript through Node.js and it’s build processes
- Experience with popular modern front-end frameworks like React / Redux and jQuery
- Experience with CSS and an eye for user experience
- Nice to have: experience with Java, .NET, Python, Swift (iOS) or Kotlin (Android)
- Able to pick up new technologies and design patterns quickly and love learning them
- Enjoys interacting with customers and solving new problems daily as well as working closely with internal teams
- Able to work between 10 am and 2 pm Eastern Time
Benefits
- 🏝️ Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year
- 💰 A competitive compensation package including stock options
- 🌎 Fully remote team - choose where you live
- 🛋️ Work from home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office
- 💻 Apple laptops provided for new employees
- 🧑🎓 Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year
- 👪 Parental leave for qualified employees
- 🧠 Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact
This position is fully remote - Constructor.io is a remote first company.
Salary range: $90,000 - $110,000 USD / year
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Constructor
At Constructor.io we are committed to cultivating a work environment that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome individuals of all backgrounds and provide equal opportunities to all applicants regardless of their education, diversity of opinion, race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or affiliation in any other protected group. Studies have shown that women and people of color may be less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every one of the qualifications listed.
Our primary interest is in finding the best candidate for the job. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of our listed qualifications.
