Lead Developer

About MarkUp

MarkUp is the leading visual commenting platform for websites, videos, PDFs and images. It’s the perfect companion to the creative process, bringing teams together and closing the feedback loop for anyone that works with multiple collaborators on a project.

To date we have signed up over 250,000 users and won Product Hunt Product of the Year in 2020. 2022 is already looking to be a bright year for MarkUp as we grow out our nimble product team.  

Our customers include some of the world’s leading brands such as Verizon, Herbalife, Getty Images, BDO, Colliers, AIG, Rosetta Stone, Johnson & Johnson, and Dolby.

We are owned and operated by our parent company Ceros — a design platform that empowers the creation of bespoke, immersive digital experiences without code. As we share the same DNA as Ceros, we’re also passionate about helping companies transform their approach to creating and managing digital content. 

We are well-funded and institutionally-backed by prominent investors including Sumeru Equity Partners, Grotech Ventures, Greycroft, and Starvest Partners.

We are remote first forever with a 4½ day workweek that finishes every Friday at 1pm.

The Role

You’ll be joining a passionate team of Software Engineers, Designers, and QA Engineers, excited by the possibilities of MarkUp and eager to maintain our lead in the collaboration space. We’re a startup within a larger organization, keen to stay agile and adapt quickly while benefiting from the support of a larger company.

The MarkUp codebase is 92% TypeScript, comprising multiple services and packages, predominantly node based. We use libraries like React, Express, Lerna, Webpack and Jest. We believe in using the right tool for the job, our infrastructure runs on NodeJS, Redis, AWS Aurora, Kubernetes and Terraform on AWS.

After nailing down product basics and building a foundational user base, we’re now expanding the product in numerous ways. These include but are not limited to building out our paid tiers, integrating with a multitude of other products (Asana, Jira, Trello, Slack, Figma, etc.), and improving upon the overall user experience with greater stability and performance of the MarkUp product. Our goal is to make MarkUp an integral part of anyone’s creative workflow. This is not just about making marketing or creative teams more efficient. It’s about empowering content collaboration across the entire organization. 

About the Team

As part of the Ceros product team, you’ll be working with a small, cross-functional group of the most talented people you’ve ever worked with. We hire only passionate and creative people with a proven and unquestionable ability to execute, and every member of the team is equally responsible for moving the product forward.

We have a dynamic company culture that collaborates daily. We care deeply about the user experience, and we debate passionately about our ideas. When you work at Ceros, you check your ego at the door, and you aren’t afraid to be honest, especially to yourself. We take our jobs seriously but ourselves not so much -- whether it’s cracking jokes in the team channel or poking fun at the CEO’s atrocious spelling.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team responsible for the development of MarkUp applications and facilitate collaboration between the Software Engineers, Quality Engineers, Designers and Product Managers on your team to implement improvements, new features, bug fixes and more. 
• Manage the Software Engineers on your team, helping them grow in their careers, understanding their concerns and delivering constructive feedback.
• Work with product management to decide how work is prioritized within the team and assist in maintaining a team roadmap and release commitments.
• Meet regularly with senior management to communicate team status and roadblocks and work closely with stakeholders on other teams when needed to achieve the team’s and company’s goals.
• As a technical leader, answering any questions that come up while also leading solutions discussions, making decisions when needed and being the example for writing clean, maintainable code.
• Providing architectural guidance to your teammates and pushing them towards better development decisions, working with them to improve their architectural judgement.
• Define and maintain an efficient and clear team process and uphold your team to our engineering standards, and Ceros core values.
• Participate in leading the response for service disruptions and hotfix releases.
• Be an advocate for team improvement, through new technologies or processes, soliciting ideas from the team.

What we’re looking for from the heart

• Creativity - You find a way
• Authenticity - You take your job more seriously than you take yourself
• Passion - You give a shit
• Courageous honesty - You speak up and push boundaries
• Respect - you are thoughtful and respectful in all interactions and expect the same from others
• Curiosity - You want to learn new things

Key Things to Know

• We want you to start ASAP 
• This is a full-time position
• This is a remote first role

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Stock options
• Premium health insurance
• 401K match
• Paid parental leave
• Unlimited vacation days
• Wellness Fridays (Half Day Fridays)
• Excellent gear (Macbook Air, external monitor, etc.)
• Stipend for the home office set up
• Growth and Learning opportunities within the company
• Virtual experiences in which Cerosians can collaborate, educate, and create social connections with one another

At Ceros, we are deeply committed to the recruitment, retention, and growth of diverse talent; uniting people from unique backgrounds in our shared passion for unlocking creativity through technology.

As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against a job applicant on the basis of their race, color, religion, veteran status, parental status, gender identity or expression, transgender status, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetic information.  We respect the laws enforced by the EEOC and are dedicated to going above and beyond in fostering diversity across our company.