Snappt

Staff Engineer

Snappt Ojai, CA
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TL;DR

Snappt is looking for an experienced Staff Engineer who brings not only a background and experience in backend API development, integrating AWS services(ECS, SQS, SNS, Lambda, etc.), and database development (PostgreSQL, etc.); but also, a decent amount of exposure, experience, and expertise utilizing and integrating ML frameworks, libraries and packages into applications and system solutions. Those who are willing & interested in participating with their team in the full value delivery chain. This team member will partner with our value-focused product engineering and operations team.

Who we are

We are a Series A, well-funded tech startup that is kicking ass and taking names. In just two short years, we have captured nearly 10% market share… because our fraud detection technology is saving our customers millions, soon to be billions of dollars.

We are a founder-led organization, passionate about building a company with awesome people and a relentless focus on the customer. And as cliche as it may sound, we walk the walk and stand behind our and how we treat one another.

We are a team of 80, soon to be 100+. If you’re like us and think you have what it takes to join us, keep reading!

What we do

We stop the bad guys. Since 2020, we have saved our customers over $150MM in potential losses.

The Snappt platform leverages our proprietary algorithm to effectively and efficiently identify tampered or altered documents used for income or financial verification. For example, this empowers property managers and owners to avoid costly evictions (and the associated bad debt.)

Who you are

  • You are passionate; you throw your energy and conviction into the work you do.
  • You are naturally curious; you have an innate desire to understand people and help solve their problems
  • You are collaborative; you thrive in environments where people work together to create winning solutions
  • You commit to self-development and personal growth; you pursue your personal and professional interests with energy and enthusiasm
  • You assume positive intent; you believe your teammates and customers come from a place of good intention

What you will do

Expected Behaviors & Responsibilities (includes but is not limited to):

  • Focus on helping their team achieve outcomes through strong participation in:
    • Focus: Shared understanding of mission and intent
    • Durability: Refine and maintain a durable/visible backlog of valuable work items for the team to build, operate, and enhance accepted products and solutions
    • Autonomy: Defensible decision-making partnerships and practices
    • Flexibility: Shared understanding of responsibilities required to accept the team’s mission and deliver full value
    • Flow: Shared understanding of WIP limitations for concurrent activity.
  • Understand and align with ideas, responsibilities, and tasks that add value to the team and the organization as a whole
  • Help to formulate and customize processes that help expose value, increase effectiveness, and reduce waste
  • Translate advanced technology designs into small work units needed to implement cross-stack and cross-domain solutions
  • Understand and help develop advanced technology systems that provide cross-stack and cross-domain solutions to existing requirements and problems
  • Consistently demonstrate a sense of responsibility for the outcome of team deliveries
  • Establish trust through the creation and honoring of personal and shared commitments and responsibilities
  • Lead and Help others to both accept responsibilities and find opportunities to learn new capabilities
  • See others’ problems as opportunities to help. The team is confident they can extend their trust for most if not all, team scope level areas
  • Display courage, to tell the truth: Seek out opportunities to give team members honest feedback. Form habits to ask for more specific feedback. Listens to feedback and then challenges themselves with improvement.

Demonstrable Passions and Behaviors:

  • Actively applies a deep understanding of:
    • The differences between right, wrong, and BEST
    • The realization, while they must highly contribute themselves, that good relationships with others are necessary even to accomplish their own interests and needs
    • Their own coachability to seek mentoring opportunities for their competencies and coaching craftsmanship and leadership behaviors
    • Their ability to positively influence their team and peers, as well as those within other Engineering crafts and across other disciplines in the organization
  • Demonstrable confidence in their craftsmanship across multiple competencies of the Software craft
    • Design Patterns, Web Architectures, Restful APIs
    • Build, operate, and extend application solutions within the team’s accepted domains
    • Experience in working with ML frameworks, ML libraries and Packages
    • Design, research, and implement ML systems algorithms and tools. Training and retraining systems as needed
    • Run machine learning tests and improve models based on those tests. o Select appropriate data sets and representation methods, perform statistical analysis, and verify data quality.
    • Develop machine learning apps according to client requirements and extend machine learning libraries
  • Knowledge and interest across other Engineering crafts (Data, Infrastructure, Security)
    • Infrastructure Engineering
    • Data Engineering
    • Product Management
  • Aptitude and attitude for continuing to increase craftsmanship in competencies across multiple Engineering crafts.

What you bring

Competencies in Software craft of Product Engineering discipline:

  • Server/API development: Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Elixir
  • Machine Learning: TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn, Spark
  • Web Client development: JavaScript, React.js, CSS
  • Testing Frameworks: Cypress
  • SQL Data Access: PostgreSQL, TypeORM, GraphQL
  • NoSQL Data: Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB
  • Other relevant competencies:
    • Event-Based Messaging
    • Pub/Sub and Message Queuing
Competencies in Infrastructure & Operations crafts of Product Engineering discipline:

  • Source Code Control: Git / Github
  • Continuous Integration: Github Actions
  • IAC and Deployment Automation: Terraform, Atlantis, Terraform Cloud
  • Public Cloud: AWS Services (S3, RDS, EC2, SQS, SNS)
  • Infrastructure: IAM, Route53, CloudFront

Competencies in Data craft of Engineering discipline:

  • Data Architecture
  • Database Administration and Tuning: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB
  • ETL & Reporting: Databricks, EMR, AWS Athena

Other relevant disciplines, crafts, and competencies:

  • Quality competency in the Product Engineering craft
  • Analysis competency of the Product Engineering craft
  • System Administration competency in the Engineering Support craft
  • Troubleshooting competency in the Engineering Support craft
  • Security Operations competency in the Information Assurance craft

Most relevant and valuable domain knowledge/industry awareness:

Property Management Systems:

  • Realpage
  • Entrata
  • Yardi

Product Engineering and SDLC Tooling:

  • JIRA
  • Confluence

Where you’ll work

Snappt is a remote-first organization.

We don’t have an office. So if you’re accountable and do high-quality work...do it from anywhere. You can also expect to see your teammates throughout the year IRL, at company-supported retreats and events.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

We believe the best ideas come from working with people of different backgrounds and unique perspectives.

We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Snappt makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

Salary Range: $185,000-$216,300

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  • Seniority level

    Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type

    Full-time
  • Job function

    Engineering and Information Technology
  • Industries

    Internet Publishing

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