Software Engineer

At 1904labs, we are a human-centered technology company that focuses on using modern tools and technologies to solve enterprise organizations' digital transformation challenges. We look for innovative, courageous, intensely curious, and team-minded people. We value people skills and technical skills highly. At 1904labs, we are committed to providing each team member with opportunities that will allow personal and professional growth while working in a team-based model using our HCDAgile methodology. We strive to solve problems innovatively while keeping humans at the center.

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the Analysis, Design, and Development of modern application software. Each team member is expected to have the right attitude and aptitude required to embrace new technologies as necessitated by the problems we encounter. We seek “T-shaped” developers, deep in a few core areas and broad across a wide range of systems, programming, and computer science disciplines. That said, we strive to build complementary teams that leverage your core strengths while also providing opportunities for growth in a collaborative setting.

• Proficient understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and best practices for developing robust solutions as well as experience using standard Design Patterns to solve common problems.
• Must be adaptable and have the drive to learn new technologies and frameworks to support R&D interests
• Experience with relational and/or document-based data stores. E.g. (Postgres, MySQL, and/or MongoDB, DynamoDB, elastic) in a professional environment
• Experience with one or more of the following frameworks or server-side technologies. E.g. (Node, React, Angular, Vue.js, etc)
• Experience working with distributed architectures including SOA-based solutions and/or micro-services implementations.
• Familiarity with consuming from and standing up REST-based APIs
• Deep understanding of how to build, deploy, test, run and manage full-stack, cloud-native applications.

• Java backend development and/or Spring boot framework experience.
• JavaScript "single page" web frameworks as well as a deep understanding of utilizing JSON-based services.
• Experience with JavaScript build tools (webpack, r.js, grunt, bower, etc.)
• Previous work experience in an Agile team-oriented environment.
• Experience with code quality tools (e.g. eslint, jshint, pmd) as well as integration into a build process.
• Full scope test automation from unit to behavioral/functional to integration (e.g JUnit, ScalaTest, JBehave, Cucumber). Experience integrating these frameworks into a continuous integration environment.
• Experience with any of the big three IAAS platforms: AWS / GCP / Azure
• Experience with infrastructure management platforms: Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, etc.
• Experience with various analytics tools used for working with big data

At 1904labs, we believe that innovation leads to progress and value creativity, inclusivity, and personal growth. Here are some reasons to choose 1904labs:

• Innovation Hours: We believe in giving our employees time and space to innovate and work on their own ideas and projects.

• Innovation First - work where it makes sense: What matters is collaborating with your team and meeting your individual commitments. So long as that remains true, each day, we want you, in conversation with your team, to work from where it makes the most sense.

• Competitive salary, bonus, and benefits package, including medical, dental, and paid parental leave.

• Personal and professional growth: We invest in the personal and professional growth of our employees, crafting career paths tailored to their aspirations.

• Experienced team: Our teams consist of intensely curious and innovative thinkers from a variety of disciplines who inspire each other to come up with the best solutions possible.

• Trusted advisor to our clients: We work with our clients to affect change within their organizations and create solutions that make an impact.

• Inclusion inspires innovation: We believe that a diverse workforce builds better, more inclusive software.

• Flexible schedules and human-centered approach to work.

• Strong commitment to the community: Take advantage of the relationships we’ve built with our established community partners or pursue any other community endeavor you are passionate about.

Don’t meet every requirement? No problem. If your skills and experience align without meeting all requirements, we encourage you to apply. Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs if they don’t meet every requirement. At 1904labs, one of our core beliefs, Inclusion Inspires Innovation, reflects our belief that a diverse workforce builds better, more inclusive software.

At 1904labs, we believe that inclusion inspires innovation. Our goal is to hire innovative, courageous, intensely curious, and team-minded people, and we are committed to fair hiring practices and equal treatment and opportunity in all areas of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. 1904labs is an equal-opportunity employer; committed to an environment of inclusion, free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.