About Skupos

Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, our mission is to bring the convenience store industry into the digital age by making it easy for everyone to manage, explore, and understand the data that drives their operations.

Skupos is the data hub for the convenience retail industry. Retailers, distributors, and brands all convene on the Skupos platform to create value from previously disparate and hard-to-obtain data. We build tools with this data to help each cohort of our industry succeed in their roles. For distributors and CPG brands, we provide real-time insight into customer inventory and market basket data.

Skupos is seeking a senior software engineer (backend) for a thriving development team. We are a tight knit group with a team first mentality. We strive to achieve our product development efforts through our team culture, clean code and hard work!

We are looking for a passionate developer that takes pride in their code and work relationships. A developer that wants to improve on their talents and contribute to the growth of the development team. A developer that supports the company’s vision and mission by delivering first-class products together.

Responsibilities

• Contribute features to our suite of Ruby on Rails and Node.js web applicationsDevelop and optimize SQL queries supporting mission critical operations & new feature initiatives
• Thoroughly test all the things with integration and unit tests
• Coordinate with team on project preparations; assist in developing project plans and proposals
• Track project progress, ensure timely completion and create transparency
• Research and recommend new technologies that will enhance team performance, improve project delivery times and decrease development stack overhead
• Contribute to the team by collaboratively finding solutions to Skupos’ toughest problems
• Help grow other team members through mentorship & hands-on guidance

Required Skills

• 4-year computer science degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of professional work experience as a software engineer
• 4+ years experience with Ruby/Rails or similar (Python, Go, Elixir)
• Strong linux command line skills preferred

Experience with...

• Test-driven development (e.g. RSpec)
• Unit testing
• SQL (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• In-memory caching and search indexing
• Worker thread pattern and job queues
• MVC Frameworks (Rails, Django, Sinatra)
• OOP, FP, design patterns, data structures
• Building REST APIs (GraphQL experience even better)
• Client side technology (React, ES6, Webpack)

Understanding of...

• JS frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue
• Scaling web applications
• Build and deployment automation

Desired Skills

• Start-up experience
• Open-source experience
• Knowledge Experience deploying code with Github, Heroku or AWS
• Other languages a plus: Java, Python, Perl, PHP, C++, C#
• Cloud and distributed services (AWS, Elasticsearch, Cloudflare)
• GraphQL

What we offer

● Competitive salary

● Healthcare benefits

● 401K

● Commuter benefits

● Major role in a strong, small and growing development team

● Be a part of a key platform of product offerings to the retail convenience store industry

What are your goals and aspirations? Build your technical skills, business acumen, and leadership with Skupos.

Responsibilities

• Contribute features to our suite of Ruby on Rails and Node.js web applicationsDevelop and optimize SQL queries supporting mission critical operations & new feature initiatives
• Thoroughly test all the things with integration and unit tests
• Coordinate with team on project preparations; assist in developing project plans and proposals
• Track project progress, ensure timely completion and create transparency
• Research and recommend new technologies that will enhance team performance, improve project delivery times and decrease development stack overhead
• Contribute to the team by collaboratively finding solutions to Skupos’ toughest problems
• Help grow other team members through mentorship & hands-on guidance

Required Skills

• 4-year computer science degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of professional work experience as a software engineer
• 4+ years experience with Ruby/Rails or similar (Python, Go, Elixir)
• Strong linux command line skills preferred

Experience with...

• Test-driven development (e.g. RSpec)
• Unit testing
• SQL (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• In-memory caching and search indexing
• Worker thread pattern and job queues
• MVC Frameworks (Rails, Django, Sinatra)
• OOP, FP, design patterns, data structures
• Building REST APIs (GraphQL experience even better)
• Client side technology (React, ES6, Webpack)

Understanding of...

• JS frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue
• Scaling web applications
• Build and deployment automation

Desired Skills

• Start-up experience
• Open-source experience
• Knowledge Experience deploying code with Github, Heroku or AWS
• Other languages a plus: Java, Python, Perl, PHP, C++, C#
• Cloud and distributed services (AWS, Elasticsearch, Cloudflare)
• GraphQL

What we offer

● Competitive salary

● Healthcare benefits

● 401K

● Commuter benefits

● Major role in a strong, small and growing development team

● Be a part of a key platform of product offerings to the retail convenience store industry

What are your goals and aspirations? Build your technical skills, business acumen, and leadership with Skupos.