Staff Engineer

Who are we?

Saltmine is a rapidly growing tech firm in the Commercial Real Estate space, disrupting the $300B workspace design-build market. We are applying modern technology to transform the process by which office design is done from workplace strategy to programming to design and procurement. With deep roots in technology and architecture design, we've built a first of its kind SaaS platform that empowers occupiers and their business partners to design inspiring and efficient spaces.

The company is headquartered in downtown San Francisco with offices in NYC, Boston, Washington D.C., Budapest, Vietnam, and Singapore. We have closed our Series A funding round (one of the biggest in South-east Asia) from marquee VC firms from Singapore & US.

As an Engineering Manager, you will be directly responsible for driving the technological vision of the Product, enhance/envision system architecture and interactions, engage stakeholders as required, liaise directly with Product Owners to shape roadmaps, manage a team and help plan work according to deadlines and priorities.

You must have…

• An Engineering degree in Computer Science or relevant discipline
• ~10 years of relevant experience
• Led teams of at least 4 engineers in the last 3 years, and possess willingness to learn and help people learn
• Been involved thoroughly in SaaS product development & deployment, preferably with a mix of Javascript, Typescript, React, MongoDB, Postgres.
• Experience with micro-service or service-oriented architectures
• Ample hands-on knowledge with AWS
• Experience with maintaining IaC
• Exhaustive experience with SQL & NoSQL databases
• Experience with systems and architectures for handling large data sets
• Confidence to design systems in a maintainable way
• Written a lot of unit tests and administered test automations
• An appetite for writing and preaching clean, readable and efficient code
• Good technical writing skills, and keen focus on documentation
• A sense of responsibility and ownership towards what you build

You get brownie points if you have…

• Any tech certifications
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
• Experience with Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) pipelines 
• Contributions to the tech community (blogs, reputation on stackoverflow, commits to opensource, etc)
• A knack for report generation and data engineering
• Experience with application messaging and integration of external systems
• A good sense of humour

The Team will need you to…

• Write a little bit of code, and additionally perform code reviews, define standards and oversee implementation of the same
• Conduct team appraisals, whilst continuously mentoring members of the team
• Design loosely coupled software components and relevant pipelines to integrate them
• Write documentations for internal and external parties
• Work with members from other business roles to derive common understanding of requirements
• Continuously advise on code refactor and infrastructure to maintain a reliable and sustainable system
• Learn and teach

We offer…

• Flexible work timings
• Unlimited vacation days
• A great cultural mix of people who go by the values of compassion, empathy & mutual respect
• Freedom to express your tech ideas