Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our development team. You will be working on modern web and mobile applications for a wide range of verticals. If you have excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications and improving existing ones, we would like to meet you. As a Full Stack Engineer, you’ll work closely with our designers and engineers to improve user experience, ensure system consistency, and push the boundaries of best practices for functional, secure, and stable applications. In this rapid evolving industry we are looking for people who have an AI-first mindset. Red Airship believes that integrating GenAI into our workflows and mindset will boost productivity, enhance client value, and drive higher profits. We are looking for people who are passionate about optimizing tooling and workflow using GenAI. This means not just doing it because it's part of the job, but because you find joy in streamlining processes and using AI to enhance your work.

GenAI Tooling and Workflow

• Passion for AI-Driven Optimization: Not just using AI tools because they're available, but actively seeking out ways to leverage GenAI to enhance your workflow and the overall output of your team.
• Proven Success with AI Integration:  Demonstrated ability to successfully integrate AI tools and techniques into your work, resulting in measurable improvements in efficiency or quality.
• Ability to Identify AI Opportunities:  Can proactively identify areas where GenAI can be applied to improve processes, solve problems, or innovate.

All engineers at Red Airship are expected to:

• Meet programming and quality standards by following production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards.
• Hone your skills, and keep yourself updated by researching and trying out new technologies and software products; participate in educational opportunities; read professional publications; maintain personal networks; participate in professional organizations.
• Work closely with designers and other engineers in cross-functional teams.
• Mentor and guide your team members.
• Produce software design documents for the features you are working on, and review the same from your peers
• Run experiments to identify new processes or improve existing processes in your team or department.
• Work closely with direct managers to identify your strengths and design your own career growth plan.
• Have fun while learning

A typical week at Red Airship in this role may look like this:

• Picking up new libraries and frameworks
• Implement unit and e2e tests using tools like Playwright and MirageJS
• Review UI/UX designs from design team, discuss about feasibility, and make recommendations
• Implement cross-browser compatible responsive designs
• Implement component libraries for use within or outside your team
• Making technical decisions, researching best practices and technology required for a project, comparing advantages and disadvantages of various technologies either custom-built or off-the-shelf.
• Leading architecture design and solutioning activities.
• Working with the DevOps team to define the CI/CD pipeline.
• Working with backend engineers in API design.
• Defining application objectives by envisioning system features and functionality, analyzing and clarifying user requirements with customers.
• Adhering to security and accessibility guidelines
• Participating in the planning and scoping of software development projects with the business development team
• Driving enablement and training of new team members
• Supporting individual development of other developers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities.
• Conducting regular code reviews and guiding junior developers to adhere to appropriate standards.

As a senior position, you are also expected to take part in defining your own role and responsibilities.

Required skills and experience

Excellent technical skills and industry experience are a must, as you’ll be representing Red Airship working with some of the best companies and sharpest minds. We don’t expect you to be expert in our entire tech stack, but we believe the best people can transfer their skills and experience to the language or framework where required. 

Soft

• Exceptional interpersonal communications capabilities demonstrated through a history of successful software development teams / projects.
• Good presentation skills, effective communication internally and externally.
• Comfortable talking to clients and end users, and advising on hard decisions.
• High level of self-motivation and maturity.
• Strong desire to tackle hard technical problems and proven ability to do so with little or no direct daily supervision.
• Ability to lead and mentor team members
• Encouraging teamwork and collaboration within the team
• Identifying and addressing skill gaps in team members
• Providing feedback and coaching to improve performance
• Bachelor’s level degree in Computer Science, engineering, mathematics, or another related field. In the absence of which, at least 4 years of working experience in related fields.

Technical

• Fundamentals
• Familiar with Linux environments and command-line interface
• Familiar with git, popular git workflows, PR/MR workflows.
• HTML5, Typescript, CSS preprocessors, NodeJS, SQL
• Web development
• Familiar with the components making up the internet and how they work together
• Understands web security and best practices
• Familiar with Browser compatibility concerns
• Familiar with Accessibility concerns
• Software engineering
• Experience with Agile mindset, SCRUM methodology, and TDD.
• Knows when, why, and how to accept technical debt.
• Able to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space, time, and elegance.
• Familiar with OOP and functional paradigms, and when to apply which.
• Familiar with UML diagramming especially Sequence diagrams.
• Deep experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining production web applications.
• Familiar with at least one of the major javascript application frameworks - React, Vue, or Angular. Coupled with their respective popular state management, testing, and build tools.
• Familiar with 2 or more popular backend frameworks (we use Nest, Echo, Drupal) and 2 or more ORM libraries (we use TypeOrm for typescript, ent for go)
• Familiar with different caching approaches at different layers of the system, and other performance-related practices.

Extras 

Additional skills that can give you an edge, not necessarily just in technology: 

• Experience building and maintaining React 18+ web applications for production.
• Experience building and maintaining hybrid apps on React Native/Flutter/Cordova for production.
• Experience working with mono repos, consuming private packages, common CI/CD pipeline tools 
• Familiar with Golang, Python, NestJS, Next, Webpack/Rollup, Redux/Recoil, React-query/RTK/etc., RxJs, Handlebars/Twig, Playwright/Cypress, RTL/Enzyme, Jasmine/Jest/Mocha, JAM stacks, AWS, Drupal 9+, PHP 8+
• Familiar with Zoho, Resco and other 3rd party services related to data integration.
• Familiar with BPMN
• Familiar with IMIS
• Experience working with Web3 technologies
• Commercial acumen, experience working alongside commercial teams.
• Experience working for technology startups or in product-focused teams
• Experience training and coaching junior members of the team

At Red Airship, we understand that the growth of our team members is essential to the company's success. To assist you in your development, we offer:

• An unlimited paid leave policy, ensuring you can always take the time needed for personal and family matters.
• Flexible working hours, allowing you to work during your most productive and efficient times.
• Learning credits to help you pursue courses or further education.
• A dedicated mentor and coach to create a personalized career growth plan.