Founding Senior Engineer

Hi, thanks for checking out our job board!If you're an entrepreneurial-minded builder who loves to work with great people to solve wicked problems that have a meaningful impact, read on to see if this position might be a good fit for you! THE COMPANYBlended Technologies is bringing modern SaaS to the wine industry. Our products will give winemakers the tools to manage all aspects of the winemaking process from grape to bottle, and will allow winery owners to optimize their business with tailored workflows, inventory tracking, tasting room management, direct-to-consumer sales, and CRM. We help owners and winemakers spend less time on tax and compliance paperwork and more time making great wine and keeping customers happy.We are a fully-funded seed-stage startup rounding out our initial engineering team that is conceiving, designing, building, and bringing our product to market. We are offering competitive salary and benefits as well as single-digit-employee-number equity. THE ROLEBeing one of the first engineering hires at a startup is a special thing – you’ll never have a greater impact, you’ll never have more opportunity, you’ll never get a bigger piece of the pie, and you’ll never have more fun. This position reports directly to an experienced CTO with decades of experience at Google, Netflix, Apple, Twilio and other tech-focused companies.We’re looking for a senior frontend engineer to help design and build our service from the ground up. You should have built big things before, have opinions about what works and what doesn’t, and can work independently on even bigger things. There isn’t always going to be a clear map that explains how to get where we want to go, so you should be comfortable trying to understand our customer needs really well, be given some UI sketches, a data schema, and coworkers to collaborate with, and be excited to figure out the rest from there.What We're Looking For:5+ years of experience at 2-3+ tech-focused companiesExpert knowledge of React/TypeScriptExpert knowledge of HTML/CSSSolid grasp of UX design fundamentals and the ability to translate an idea into reasonable basic UIThe more experience with any/all of these, the better:GraphQLChakra or another UI component toolkitReact NativeSolid knowledge of HTTP protocolEven more UX design skills than mentioned aboveWriting GraphQL resolvers on the backendMongoDBAWS Cognito/Lambda/DocumentDB/API Gateway/CloudFormationWriting good technical documentationWorking knowledge of managed cloud-service software development, esp. AWSWorking knowledge of building software in containerized deployments, with full CI/CDA passion for leading and mentoring engineersA desire to work directly with customers (winemaker customer visits are pretty great)About Zero21As recruiters helping to build the next generation of industry disruptors, we are committed to expanding the startup ecosystem so that exceptional talent from diverse communities can gain greater access to more early stage companies. We work only with equal opportunity employers who welcome candidates from underrepresented, underestimated, and traditionally overlooked communities to further diversity, equity, and inclusion in the next cohort of industry-disrupting unicorns. To all recruitment agencies: Zero21 does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or our team members. Zero21 is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.Originally posted on Himalayas

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