Software Engineer I

Department: Engineering

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Employment Type: FullTime

Fama is the innovator in online screening that makes hiring great people easy. Combining Fama’s groundbreaking AI technology and ability to integrate across the HR Tech stack, the solution compliantly searches over 10,000 online public sources to help companies avoid workplace misconduct, prevent costly legal action and ultimately, make better decisions. By modernizing candidate screening and due diligence, Fama helps organizations, agencies, and investors improve the quality of hires, make the most of each investment and build successful businesses.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, Fama has raised over $30M and is backed by some of the world’s leading venture capitalists and institutional investors. We’re FCRA, EEOC, and SOC2 compliant, and integrate with major HRIS, ATS, and background check solutions. To learn more, visit Fama.io.

Position Overview:

The Software Engineer I collaborates with a team of product managers, software engineers, QA, and other stakeholders to support and develop features and capabilities for Fama’s SaaS product lines. The role plays an integral part in providing application support to Fama’s Operations teams, supporting our platforms’ production operations (ProdOps) and writing code for new and existing features.

Responsibilities:

• Triage and drive resolution of all platform technical issues impacting Fama Operations and/or our customers.

• Develop solutions by studying information needs, conferring with product management, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes.

• Develop performant code accompanied by effective unit tests and participate in our peer review process.

• Build proactive monitoring and alerting to notify team of symptoms before outages occur.

• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis and remediation of incidents.

• Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to platform availability incidents and assist with customer specific incidents.

Who You Are:

• Passionate about building scalable applications with a domain-oriented microservices architecture.

• Enjoy agile software development and delivering quality code in a fast-paced environment.

• Inherently flexible with multi-tasking and dealing with frequent interruptions.

• Comfortable working on software development tasks you have never done before and seeking help when you are stuck.

• Self-driven about learning all facets of the stack to continuously build your depth.

• Belief that in the world of Product Engineering, DevOps is king, meaning engineers own the product, from design to production support.

• Comfortable working with diverse people and teams across the organization, from operations analysts to the CEO.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Direct or transferrable experience working with Python and familiarity with associated web frameworks (e.g. FastAPI, Django, Flask, etc.). FastAPI is a plus.

• Experience and understanding of REST APIs

• Basic understanding and some experience developing front end web components with these or similar technologies:

  • Javascript

  • React

  • Typescript

• 2+ years experience providing Level 2 application support in an a very active software development environment

The salary range for this position is: $95,000 - $105,000 annually. Compensation for this role will depend on various factors, including qualifications, specialized skills, budgetary considerations, labor market conditions and demand, and applicable laws. In addition to base compensation, this role can participate in our equity incentive and competitive benefits plans. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. Performance-based compensation and equity incentives are available.

• Remote first - Flexible work environment.

• Our flexible workplace comes with vacation days, sick days, volunteer time off, and paid parental leave.

• Great Financial Incentives. competitive compensation packages, stock options, and generous 401(k) plans with a match.

• Employees can access Wellness Programs such as Teladoc, TalkSpace therapy, Peloton, and more for FREE.

We believe that becoming an increasingly diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace makes us a more successful and resilient organization. We embrace equal opportunity for all applicants and seek to foster and preserve a culture of belonging for our employees. We recognize and appreciate that the more inclusive we are, the better we will function as a team. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or family status, disability, military veteran status, and any other status or background.