TO APPLY:  Please send your cover letter in the body of an email and attach your resume in PDF format and send it to Leanne.Linsky@Plauzzable.com. Thank you!

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Are you passionate about tech and entertainment? We are! Plauzzable is a Seattle-based early-stage start-up looking for a software developer who loves to create, values teamwork, is committed to excellence, and has a good sense of humor.

What you’ll do:

As a Software Developer, you will provide cost-effective software solutions that meet Plauzzable’s specific business requirements and deliver solutions that optimize our user experience and productivity.

• Actively participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum ceremonies.
• Design new solutions and drive alignment across engineering and product teams.
• Design, develop, test, and document software systems and provide timely and quality support.
• Write code to implement new features or optimize existing services.
• Determine the most efficient means to sufficiently test new code: unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, etc.
• Use logs, and monitoring tools, and work with the team to determine root causes across distributed components.
• Perform code reviews for members of the team, bearing a sense of responsibility for approved code.
• Lead implementation efforts as well as other cross-functional ICT efforts such as architectural enhancements or IT development process improvements.
• Ensure appropriate data mapping and data analysis, and prepare detailed specifications from which programs will be written, coded, and tested.
• Anticipate and mitigate risk on projects.
• Monitor and report to management on the status of project efforts, anticipating/identifying issues that inhibit the attainment of project goals and implementing corrective actions.
• Effectively communicate with teams on project progress and collaborate with teams in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner. 

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of related experience crafting and operating backend services.
• 1+ years of related experience crafting and operating large-scale, high-availability backend services.
• Proven track record of designing and driving consensus on backend architectures.
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc)
• Experience with asynchronous programming.
• Experience with functional programming patterns.
• Experience with AGILE/Scrum practices.
• Skilled at work breakdown and task estimation.
• Strong communication skills and a desire to share your knowledge with team members 
• Experience deploying and scaling within a cloud infrastructure.
• Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines (such as git, Github, Jenkins).
• Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (such as Datadog and Grafana).
• Experience building solutions that utilize NoSQL databases and distributed caching technologies.
• Experience deploying and scaling within a cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with A/B testing platforms, feature flagging, and related systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

Washington State Residency Requirement:
You must be eligible to work inside the United States and reside in the state of Washington. 

Location:
You’ll work remotely (from home) in the state of Washington. We will hold meetings on Zoom and occasionally meet in person. 

Work Schedule:
Your normal full-time work schedule will be Monday – Friday. The days and start/end times are somewhat flexible in this role. 

Pay:
Negotiable based on experience.

APPLY:
Please send your cover letter in the body of an email and attach your resume in PDF format and send it to Leanne.Linsky@Plauzzable.com.