Sr. Software Engineer, MarkUp

About MarkUp

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

Within just 2 years, 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.

The Product

Ceros provides multiple products. The Sr. Software Engineer will join Markup (https://markup.io), which is built with React on the frontend and Node for the backend, all written in Typescript. The application is split into multiple services all maintained within a monorepo. Its infrastructure uses Terraform and Kubernetes on AWS.

The Role

You’ll be joining a passionate team of Software Engineers, Designers, and QA Testers, 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.

MarkUp consists of two agile (scrum-ish) teams that work across the stack and services to deliver on our roadmap and continually improve the existing stack. Candidates will join one of the existing teams until we’re ready to spin up a new team.

After onboarding, collaboration with colleagues and a chance to get familiar with the codebase, you’ll soon be ready to get stuck into your first story. We release weekly and look forward to celebrating your first PR merge.

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 chat room or poking fun at the CEO’s atrocious spelling.

Key Responsibilities

• Writing maintainable code (probably goes without saying)
• Planning and leading high-complexity stories and epics
• Reviewing upcoming epics and offering insights on impacts to other parts of the application
• Performing code reviews and helping to enforce our code and architectural standards
• Participating as a primary on-call resource for service disruptions
• Handling superfriend responsibilities with minimal assistance
• Acting as release owner
• Mentoring other software engineers
• Suggesting new technologies and techniques to improve engineer productivity
• Agonizing over the user experience until even a trained monkey could use the product
• Collaborating with and mentoring your peers on security best practices

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.