Staff Engineer

What does Full Stack mean at Fundwave?

Full Stack Engineers at Fundwave work on our products. They work with peers on teams dedicated to areas of the product. They work together with product managers, designers, and other full stack engineers towards common goals. Full stack engineers work on entity modeling and database structures, APIs, all the way to designing modern web components and PWAs.

What does Staff level mean at Fundwave?

You've been a senior engineer for many years, and have been responsible for some aspects of the responsibilities of a staff engineer, as described below.

Staff Responsibilities

• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team and others.
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity for your team.
• Exert significant influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team.
• Shepherd the definition and improvement of our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Drive innovation on the team with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of immense complexity and scope.
• Actively seek out difficult impediments to our efficiency as a team (“technical debt”), propose and implement solutions that will enable the entire team to iterate faster
• Represent Fundwave and its values in public communication around broad initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions. Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of your team.
• Provide mentorship for all Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.
• Confidently ship large features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.

Staff Leadership Competencies

A staff engineer generally operates at a team level scope, serving as the technical leader for one or more of their team's domains of responsibility.

• Helps others across the organization understand their team’s domain and technology.
• Communicates clearly and effectively with team members and stable counterparts.
• Makes responsible decisions and evaluates tradeoffs impacting their team's domain.
• Exhibits a deep understanding of their team's features, how customers use them, and how they fit into the larger business.
• Improves team processes.
• Recognizes good solutions and clearly explains their merits to relevant stakeholders.
• Unblocks and enables team members and counterparts.
• Participates in processes which address complex technical challenges, such as Architecture Design.

Staff Technical Competencies

• Has a broad skill-set with in-depth expertise in their team's technical domain.
• Blends technical, product and design strategy, helping the team to be more productive.
• Represents their team as a domain expert when interfacing with other teams.
• Reaches beyond immediate needs, independently considering the longer-term, and is always looking beyond for ways to have a broad impact.
• Addresses challenges related to customers, quality, and security.
• Able to take on complex requirements and decompose them into a proposal of small deliverables.
• Engages in processes, such as Architecture Design to contribute to their team's most challenging technical initiatives.

Staff Values Alignment

Build upon our common company values (https://fundwave.com/company/), engineering culture and cohesiveness of the entire team.

What Venture Capital knowledge does it take to get started at Fundwave?

You don't need a prior venture capital knowledge as long as you're a quick learner. Your friendly team members will share reading and materials to get you up to speed on how Venture Capital works. You'll model business processes, financial instruments used  by Venture Capital funds ­ and improve the way VC will operate in the future. 

Is this an Individual Contributor role or a managerial role?

While your leadership competencies are absolutely essential to succeed at this role, this is a role for Individual Contributors who love to code and aren't ready to leave writing code anytime soon.

What's the stack like at Fundwave?

Keywords: 

Must-know: JS, CSS, JSON, REST API, Bash, SQL, HTML5, Responsive design

Good-to-know: ES6+, Web Components (React, LitElement, Vue or similar), Build tools (Webpack / Rollup or similar), Java, Excel, Spring, JPA, AWS, Docker.

Technical skills:

Must-know:

• Excellent knowledge of JS or Java.
• Familiarity with JSON.
• Excellent knowledge of CSS, Wireframes and responsive design.
• Experience with databases.
• Basic experience with Bash / Linux shell.
• Basic experience with back-end programming in any language.

Good-to-know

• Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services.
• Knowledge of SCSS, SASS.
• Knowledge of Java frameworks such as Spring, JPA / Hibernate.
• Knowledge of database procedures, PL/SQL etc.
• ES6 and JS frameworks such as ReactJS, Angular 4+, Vue, LitElement.
• Excel and data transformation / analysis.

About Fundwave

Fund managers – managing crowdfunds, venture funds, private equity funds – are our heroes. Our products help fund managers stay focused on building the next great start-up or spin the wheels faster at a blue chip. At Fundwave, building the most awesome fund management solution is just one of the perks. With friendly customers and an entrepreneurial culture, we are just the team you’re looking to join.