Full Stack Software Engineer

Working at RippleMatch:

At RippleMatch, we build technology to make early-career hiring more effective while increasing access to opportunity. Figuring out where to begin your career is a difficult and overwhelming decision. Traditional career services and job boards with millions of postings aren't very helpful. It's also not a fair contest. For many students, opportunity is limited based on where they attend school and their personal networks. RippleMatch is changing this. Our platform is a two-sided marketplace — on one side, we help early-career candidates from around the country discover job opportunities that match their skills and interests without effort. On the other side, RippleMatch helps hundreds of employers like Amazon, eBay, and Teach for America hire top talent virtually and build diverse teams. We have a technical product that leverages automation and intelligent workflows to make finding your dream job or hiring the right candidate easier, faster, and fairer than ever before. Since launching RippleMatch from a college dorm room in 2016, we've raised $34 million in venture funding, grown to 1 million+ users from 1300+ colleges & universities, and brought on hundreds of leading employers as customers. Our tight-knit team of 60+ talented people works hard, celebrates wins, and cares deeply about changing the way finding a job works.

NYC or Remote:

RippleMatch has a NYC headquarters but follows a remote-first working policy. What does this mean? You can come into our NYC office everyday, once in a while or very rarely!  RippleMatch will keep eastern hours as a company and we will expect any remote employee to have consistent high-speed WiFi access and maintain full time residency in the United States. Creating strong bonds between RippleMatch team members means a lot to us and we are investing heavily in creating opportunities to make sure remote employees get plenty of in-person time. We offer in-person onboarding, travel benefits and virtual team building activities!

Role Description: 

We are looking for Full Stack Software Engineers of all skill levels to join our highly collaborative engineering team. Our user-centric engineers work across all domains of our stack to deliver high-quality and ambitious features, and in the process get to wear the many hats that come with working on a tight-knit start-up team. In addition to writing excellent software, you will work closely with other engineers, teaching and learning from each other as much as possible. You will also work closely with QA and Product Management to participate in and shape our Agile processes. 

Core Responsibilities

• Create and deliver high quality features at high velocity 
• Navigate fluently across the entire stack within the first six months
• Proactively improve the health and quality of the codebase
• Suggest new technologies that will increase engineer productivity
• Actively contribute to iteration in our Agile processes
• Architect creative technical solutions to meet product requirements
• Always be learning from and teaching your fellow engineers
• Adapt to the needs of the situation - we may need a front-end engineer one week, a back-end engineer the next, and a DevOps engineer after that!

Tech stack: TypeScript, VueJs, Python, Pandas, SciKit, SqlAlchemy, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Github Actions, DataDog, Sentry, Selenium, Jest, Pytest, and more!

Our engineering team is composed of empathetic and hard-working full-stack engineers that care deeply about our mission and building the highest quality product we can build. The team enjoys and excels at mentoring and learning from each other. In general, we value collaboration, communication, and a “no job too small" attitude. We also encourage our engineers to refer their friends - about a third of our engineering team was a direct referral from another engineer!

We encourage our engineers to pair frequently. We host weekly guilds around various engineering topics to share knowledge across the team where all engineers are encouraged to propose and lead workshops whenever possible! We are a remote first team, but have plenty of team events - from wine tastings, magic shows, and chess club we work hard and have fun.

Who you are:

• You have high degrees of user empathy
• You are working on becoming a T-shaped engineer 
• You have a “no job is too big, and no job is too small” attitude
• You own your mistakes, and share your successes
• You are highly collaborative, and love working with others
• You come up with creative solutions to complex problems
• You are curious, and proactively fill gaps in your knowledge
• You care deeply about the mission of RippleMatch

What we are looking for:

• Deep intellectual curiosity and passion for software engineering
• Strong engineering ability in at least one domain of our stack
• Highly collaborative working style 
• Able to deliver well-tested features at high velocity
• Passion for an excellent user experience
• Quick learner
• Strong emotional intelligence and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience
• Domain expertise in at least one of the following:
• Experience with a modern front-end framework (Angular, React, Vue)
• Experience with TypeScript is a strong plus
• Experience with Python BE web frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI)
• Experience with statically typed Python is a strong plus
• Experience with relational databases is a strong plus (Postgres, MySql)
• Experience with DevOps or Platform Engineering is a strong plus (Kubernetes, AWS, Docker)

Culture & Perks:

At RippleMatch, we understand that our success stems from the people we have on board, which is why we invest heavily in our team’s well-being and growth. We offer a full slate of perks including equity, a dog friendly office, paid vacation, discounted memberships to Class Pass, a pre-tax commuter program, discounted Citi Bike memberships and comprehensive healthcare benefits (with free plan options!). We work hard to foster a culture of constant self-improvement, true ownership, and positivity. At our core, we are a tight-knit team that works hard, celebrates wins, and cares deeply about changing the way finding a job works. We are going to fundamentally transform the hiring landscape and won’t settle for anything less.

Our office is conveniently located near Union Square in Manhattan, NYC.

RippleMatch is a proud equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.