Senior Software Engineer

Company Overview

Kale’s mission is to empower people to translate their social value into economic value. With our focus on everyday creators and a content-first discovery experience, Kale is redefining social commerce. Our goal is to flip influencer marketing on its head to put power back in the hands of true customers, making brand/creator relationships genuine and trustworthy.

Job Description

As a Full Stack Engineer at Kale, you will work closely with product managers, and software engineers to develop and deploy new features and enhancements to our website, mobile app and backend platform to elevate the user experience and drive business value. You will likely lean into one area or specialty, either on the frontend or backend, but you will be excited to learn and deepen your skill set in other areas. Day to day, you will collaborate and pair with your engineering teammates helping to architect and implement solutions that add value to Kale’s brands, creators and the dynamics of the marketplace.

Expectations in this role

• You are a contributor who promotes software best practices and team health. You create a positive impact through your work.
• As your work inspires your team to work with you, you are able to occasionally mentor them and connect people.
• You drive solutions to simplify complexity and develop the approach to tackle a problem. You have a background in overseeing complex systems with subsystems, internal initiatives.
• You are a practitioner that understands the broader context of the system you impact, going on at least one area of the product.

Tech stack

• Several React.js and Spring applications deployed statically in Google App Engine
• Our design system and mockups specified in Figma
• Our API is built on Kotlin Spring using GraphQL
• The Kotlin API is backed by a Postgres database, and integrations with third party data sources.
• Automated continuous integration and deployment pipelines for the frontend and backend that spin up review applications after they have run the test and build suite.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer or related role
• Strong programming skills in Kotlin/Java, Javascript, React, GraphQL,
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently and in a team

Nice to haves

• Professional experience at a software startup.
• Experience as a technical mentor.
• Experience designing and building APIs.

If you're passionate about applying software engineering to real-world business problems and want to make an impact at a fast-growing startup, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity at Kale!