Senior Full Stack Engineer II

Senior Full Stack Engineer II | Remote CST/EST

About Us!

Close Date: 7/22/24

Kooth is a fast-growing organization with a social purpose. After 20 years of successful services in the UK, we are rapidly expanding in the United States!

OUR MISSION: To provide welcoming and effective digital mental health support to students proactively. Using the collective insight from nearly 1 million hours of professional intervention, we guide students to three areas of evidenced-based support: self-guided, community/peer interactions, and chat-based counseling provided by licensed Counselors. These areas of assistance are designed to match each individual student’s current needs, wants and goals as well as identify and refer to a higher level of care when needed.

We’re seeking a talented and experienced Senior Full Stack Engineer II who will work within a squad/team to maximize its impact. Understands the business and make technical and or delivery decisions based on its direction.

If you are seeking a fun, professional culture, in a fast-growing company, look no further - Apply today!

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Designing and building RESTful Node APIs, React frontends and/or React Native mobile apps.
• Regularly releasing working software, using trunk-based development, automated test suites, and infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Incorporating cross-functional requirements such as performance, resilience, observability, maintainability, security, and accessibility.
• Owning the delivery and ensuring the momentum of specific features and/or squads
• Collaborating with other disciplines and departments, building effective working relationships, and representing engineering across Kooth.
• Helping the team achieve a shared understanding of user needs, Kooth commercial and operational goals.
• Working with engineers to set technical direction, advise on architectural decisions and maintain a focus on technical excellence through pair/mob
• programming and other knowledge sharing approaches.
• Keeping up to date knowledge of industry trends, engaging with wider technical communities, and appropriately sharing suggestions.
• Work with engineering leadership and others to create an empowered, autonomous and diverse engineering culture.
• Participating in the out-of-hours on-call response Rota approximately two weeks out of every four months.
• Indepth knowledge of JavaScript or Typescript

Requirements

• A focus on maintainable, well tested code
• Database technologies such as PostgreSQL, Google Datastore, BigQuery
• An understanding of modern architecture patterns and ability to steer systems design
•  Focus on pragmatic delivery, able to take ownership and initiative to balance constraints
• Strong communication skills, builds great colleague relationships across disciplines
•  Experience and enthusiasm for growing other engineers
• Proven experience working on large-scale software projects in a senior role

Preferred not Required

• Experience with rapid application development techniques such as trunk-based development, automated testing at all levels and infrastructure-as-code.
• Worked in a cloud native environment like GCP or AWS with Kubernetes
• Web or mobile application development experience using React or React Native
• Familiarity with range of support technologies for users with disabilities
•  Experience within an event-sourcing architecture

Benefits

Compensation: $170,000- 200,000 based on experience.

Here are some of the exciting benefits you will receive as a team member at Kooth:

• Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
• Prescription drug coverage
• Generous paid time off
• 8 paid holidays plus two, half-day holidays (Christmas Eve and New Years Eve)
• 401(k) retirement plan

Kooth provides equal employment opportunities to all people without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition, genetic information, military service, veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by law.