Sr. Software Engineer
Coachify is the first platform designed specifically to help video game coaches run their business and we need you to help us build it! Esports and gaming in general is growing extraordinarily fast, with 3 out of 4 households in the United States containing at least one gamer. With our software, coaches can efficiently manage more students and deliver greater results.
While our startup team is small, we receive the robust benefits of our much larger parent company, Peaksware. You may know them as TrainingPeaks, MakeMusic, TrainHeroic and Alfred Music. All these brands are under the Peaksware umbrella. TrainingPeaks develops software for coaches and athletes to track, analyze and plan endurance training. TrainHeroic develops software solutions for the strength and conditioning needs of coaches and athletes. MakeMusic develops software to transform how music is composed, taught, learned and performed. Alfred Music creates and publishes educational music to help teachers, students, professionals and hobbyists experience the joy of making music.
We would love to have you join our ever-growing team! All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of gender, race, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical disability, religion, or length of time spent unemployed.
General Summary
As Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for creating and supporting sites and services that power our products, owning applications from inception through development, test, and release to production. You must be flexible and willing to take on whatever responsibilities are needed to regularly ship all of the company’s offerings.
In this role, you will contribute to our products by developing modular front & backend code in our frameworks, developing front & backend services and improving system scalability; adding new features to APIs; refactoring monolithic code to highly-cohesive, loosely-coupled components; and identifying performance bottlenecks across the entire system. You will be challenged to continue growing in your craft, and you will help us continually improve processes, software quality, and system performance. You will have the ability to drive and facilitate architecture / design discussions and decisions, inspire and mentor junior teammates, and bring new languages and skills to a smart and high-performing team.
You are a continuous learner with a hunger for knowledge. You approach challenges as opportunities to improve. You value team members’ input from all levels and you actively seek ways to support your colleagues.
You will sit directly with the Engineering Team and report to the Manager, Engineering and Co-Founder.
Core Functions
- Continuously deliver features that delight our growing and evolving customer base
- Address problems of scale to help us sustain current growth and prepare for the future
- Implement technical solutions that affect the entire team
- Support our internal and external customers by developing stable, intuitive APIs
- Mentor more junior developers
- Review code written by team members to help ensure high-quality, performant code
- Help drive open and honest team communication, best practices and education in new technologies
Requirements
- 5+ years experience working on challenging problems in complex language applications
- Experience developing full stack web applications with TypeScript and NodeJS
- Experience developing and maintaining suites of automated unit/ integration tests
- Experience addressing problems of scale
- Previous experience with and/or desire to mentor other engineers
- Experience with CI/CD processes and tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, etc.
- Experience refactoring applications and seeing architectural changes through from design to completion
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud technologies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement of yourself and your team
- Degrees are not required and we value all forms of continued education including traditional four-year degrees, post-graduate degrees, associates degrees, bootcamps, online training, professional certifications, self-teaching and more.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience developing with modern JS/TS web application frameworks such as ReactJS, NextJS, VueJS, ExpressJS, FeathersJS, Koa, etc
- Experience developing with a variety of messaging patterns such as Request/Response, Publish/Subscribe, and Push/Pull
Don’t meet every single requirement? Don’t worry. We still want to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
The work characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Benefits
Peaksware/Coachify is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this role is $107,042 - $178,403. This position is also remote-friendly and, as such, compensation will ultimately be in line with the location in which the position is filled. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location.
This role is eligible for variable compensation including bonus.
Benefits and Perks
Health
- 100% company-paid Medical for employees with buy-up options
- Dental
- Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Account
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- Paid Parental Leave
- Teladoc
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Additional coverage options such as accident and critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity
Disability and Life
- Company-paid Short Term Disability
- Company-paid Long Term Disability
- Company-paid Basic Life Insurance and AD&D
- Employee-paid Supplemental Life Insurance for Employee, Spouse, and/or Child
Additional
- 401(K)
- 401(K) Matching
- Pet Insurance
- 9 paid holidays annually and unlimited Flexible Time Off (FTO)
- Free TrainingPeaks, TrainHeroic, MakeMusic accounts, and Alfred Music product
- Access to the Performance and Recovery Center (PARC), our on-site fitness facility
- Employee only access to on-site locker rooms and showers
- Employee only access to secure, indoor bike storage
- Access to our onsite Music Studio
- An assortment of “grab’n go” fruit and snacks as well as on tap cold brew, kombucha, and beer.
- Beautiful onsite cafe that includes indoor and outdoor seating and lounge areas.
- Access to e-bikes available exclusively to Peaksware employees
- Significant investment in resources for employee growth and development
- Corporate discounts on select gym memberships and top brand gear
- Flexible work schedule in a culture of trust
Please contact [email protected] if you require a reasonable accommodation to review our website or to apply online.
Work Environment
This job operates in a professional office environment that is well-lighted, heated, and/or air-conditioned with adequate ventilation and a noise level that is usually moderate. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers and filing cabinets.
All employees must comply with all safety policies, practices and procedures. Report all unsafe activities to your manager and/or Human Resources.