Vangst Summary

Vangst is the premier talent resource for the cannabis industry. Headquartered in Denver, CO, our platform solutions combine smart technology and human know-how to match leading cannabis companies with the best talent on the market. From temporary to full-time positions, cultivation to the retailer counter and across teams of 10 to companies of 1000, we bring full-service expertise to every aspect of cannabis hiring. We give companies a competitive edge by placing the industry’s top talent in difficult-to-fill positions while also navigating a nuanced and ever-evolving regulatory landscape. We help start careers, advance careers and empower both companies and employees with not just job placement, but also industry education and training. Our mission is to help the entire industry succeed with smarter technology, unmatched knowledge and a network of talent that gets cannabis to work.

Why Work Here? 

Join our team and help us get Cannabis to work. Our company offers significant opportunity for motivated self-starters who thrive in a fast-paced environment that is quickly transitioning from a startup to a highly recognized industry disruptor. We offer a benefits package including health, dental and vision, 401k savings, flexible vacation and working policies, competitive salaries and stock options. Vangst HQ is located in the WeWork Financial Building in Denver’s Cherry Creek neighborhood. Not in Denver? No problem. We support a distributed/remote working model. 

Who We’re Looking For:

 A battle-tested, yet personable senior engineer who can confidently contribute to our mission of helping the Cannabis industry succeed through talent matching. You are comfortable proposing system architectures, and getting alignment from engineers around you while discussing the tradeoffs.  You feel comfortable steering code review discussions ensuring that opinions are heard, but a decision is made. You can solve the hard problems on your own, but enjoy mentoring other engineers just as much.  We seek a motivated, self-starter who can buckle-down and deliver as an individual contributor as well as provide technical direction for a growing team.

What You’ll Be Responsible For Achieving:

• Building highly performant APIs and services in Ruby
• Leading our migration from Node.js to Ruby on Rails
• Designing and steering software architecture discussions and decisions
• Defining and modeling behavior expectations balancing optimism, collaboration and technical leadership
• Leading our evolving development and testing standards and best practices

What Will Make You Successful:

• Significant experience building APIs and services with Ruby on Rails
• You are self-directed, confident, and efficient with your decision making
• Ability to deliver full-stack features in a modern, web-based application(s)
• Experience designing REST & GraphQL APIs
• Experience architecting and supporting Javascript single page applications
• Expertise with modern developer workflows and tool chains (Git, CI/CD, Webpack, Babel)
• Extensive knowledge of testing best practices at all layers
• Extensive knowledge of object-oriented and functional programming concepts and design patterns
• Experience designing and managing complex relational database structures
• Experience working on an established product with real users
• You enjoy driving and improving process
• Confidence pairing with other engineers of all levels

What Will Make You Stand Out:

• Experience with JavaScript and/or Node.js
• Experience with real-time distributed database and/or systems
• Experience supporting the advancement of a monolith app to modern architectures
• Experience with enterprise SaaS instrumentation products such as New Relic or Elastic
• Experience with 2 or more additional core technologies (Elixir / Python / Go / React)
• A reputation for superb communication skills with other engineers and teammates