Job details
Senior Software Engineer - Fountain One
OpenSenior Software Engineer - Fountain One
Open
Fountain
HR Tech & Payroll
Experience Level
Senior
Salary Range (USD)
Not specified
Job Deadline
Not specified
About Company
Fountain is the leading enterprise solution for frontline workforce management. Its automated, customizable platform provides a seamless applicant experience for workers while ensuring organizations can scale and manage their frontline talent. Fountain has helped hundreds of companies like UPS, CLEAR, Stitch Fix, GoPuff, Fetch, and sweetgreen hire, onboard, and manage over 14 million workers in more than 75 countries. In 2022, Fountain closed $185M in its Series C, led by SoftBank and B Capital.
Job Description
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Fountain One platform team, you will be part of a dedicated squad of 4 developers working on new products and features that span the entire Fountain suite — including planning, architecture, development, and maintenance. The team operates with agility and autonomy typically found in early-stage product development. You will have the opportunity and be expected to use the latest AI tools to boost development and contribute to agentic AI-driven systems that enhance release quality through automated processes. This role requires collaboration within a globally distributed organization spanning Western and Northern Europe, USA, South Africa, India, and more.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and test multiple critical systems with high traffic.
- Work closely with product teams to deliver customer value.
- Work closely with other engineering teams to deliver concrete developer experience gains.
- Implement reactive systems that enhance performance, security, and stability.
- Drive key software architecture decisions.
- Improve agentic development systems and processes.
- Engage in code reviews and pair programming sessions to uphold code excellence, uniformity, and adherence to best practices.
- Identify and resolve performance constraints, optimizing applications for peak speed, scalability, and user convenience.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and continuously seek opportunities to enhance the user experience.
Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of extensive software engineering experience, more backend-oriented.
- Demonstrated track record in product-focused software development.
- Understanding of complex software architectures.
- Strong problem-solving abilities, including using AI tools.
- Ability to bridge enterprise customer problems and code seamlessly, with a keen sense of UX, security, consistency, and scalability considerations.
- Solid understanding of the limitations and benefits of AI-assisted development.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for effective collaboration across distributed teams.
- Capability to work autonomously and confidently amidst dynamic circumstances.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and address misaligned system architectures.
- Proficiency in Agile methodologies with a history of collaboration within cross-functional teams.
Skills
TypeScriptNode.jsExpressMongoDBBackend EngineeringSystem ArchitectureAgileAI ToolsAgentic SystemsCode ReviewsPerformance Optimization