About the position
Kipsu is a growth stage Minneapolis-based technology company that has grown to over 120 employees. At Kipsu, we help service professionals Meet the Moment - from partnering with some of the largest hospitality brands in the world to working with clients in the multifamily and healthcare industries. Our best-in-class technology enables organizations around the globe to better serve their customers through streamlined messaging, data-driven performance metrics, sentiment analysis and workflow management. As one of the Twin Cities' leading tech companies, Kipsu has cultivated a reputation for a strong company culture and is consistently recognized by the Star Tribune as a Top Workplace. You'll join an expanding and accelerating team of Software Engineers in our Experience Practice that focus and specialize in front-end technologies but also contribute to data and backend solutions as a part of a cross functional team. Our developers work with React, Angular, React Native, Kotlin, PHP, Typescript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, REST APIs, and AWS services like EC2, SQS, S3, Lambda, among others. The engineering team has a tight partnership with our product team and executives and they see the impact of their work on Kipsu's business every day.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and support world-class software across a range of tech stacks in a SaaS environment
- Use design patterns, best practices, and the right mix of object oriented and functional programming techniques to solve complex business problems
- Bring working knowledge in agile software development to a cross functional delivery team
- Use source code management and devops tools and practices in your day to day engineering work
- Participate in peer reviews, pair programming, workshops, and learn best-in-class development practices
- Join our Experience practice - a team of engineers dedicated to designing, building, and supporting world-class front-ends, user experiences, and user interfaces across all screens and devices
- Help us maintain 24/7 SLAs by occasionally (2-3 weeks/yr) being on call for after hours support
- Troubleshoot and resolve bugs and production issues while minimizing downtime to customers
- Help advance our standard of excellence in engineering practices
- Liaison with stakeholders inside and outside of Kipsu in day to day work
- Ask thoughtful and relevant questions to analysts and other business stakeholders in order to better solve the problem at hand
- Attend external customer meetings to design and troubleshoot technical solutions
- Make improvements to modules/libraries/services and go out of your way to help others learn from it
- Proactively document and share knowledge to enable others to learn, improve, and achieve
Requirements
- 2-5 years of experience as a Software Engineer
- Passion for designing, building, delivering, and supporting world-class software
- Experience in modern front-end tech stacks such as React, React Native as well as a passion for working in these tech stacks
- Experience or desire to work in cross-platform mobile tech stacks (React Native) and design, build, test, and support software for mobile apps
- Ability to participate within scaled day to day Agile environment
- A desire not just to work within the existing status quo, but rather a true drive to be a 'builder' and shape a modern stack that is critical to our business
- A deliberate delivery mindset and attention to detail
- An ability to partner with client-facing teammates to help create insights out of information
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- A willingness to help mentality where 'not my job' is not part of the vocabulary
- Ability to appropriately manage individual and team workload, escalations, and roadblocks
- Persistence in reaching your goals, even when you've run into some obstacles along the way
Benefits
- health insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- 401K with a company match
- unlimited/responsible vacation time
- life insurance
- flex spending account
- commuter benefits
