Staff Engineer (Greenfield Project)

At Hopin, we’re reimagining events. Our mission is simple: we exist to make the world feel closer. 

Founded in 2019, Hopin brings brands and communities together around highly interactive and engaging experiences. We believe that people should have access to the conversations, moments and ideas they care most about, no matter where they are. Through our highly scalable platform, participants are able to learn, engage, and connect from anywhere in the world. 

Hopin started as a virtual events solution but we have since meaningfully expanded our offering from virtual events to hybrid and in-person events, as well as video and workplace collaboration products. This growth has been fueled by a series of strategic acquisitions, including: Boomset - an all-in-one event management platform; Attendify - advancing Event Marketing products; StreamYard - unveiling a video production Studio; video hosting service Streamable and video technology company Jamm.

Listed as one of the 2021 Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators, Hopin has scaled to 800+ employees working remotely across 47 countries. Valued at $7.75B, Hopin raised a $450M Series D round of financing and is backed by top tier investors, including Arena Holdings, Altimeter Capital, Adam Street Partners, Untitled Investments, XN Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, DFJ Growth, General Catalyst, GIC, IVP, Northzone, Salesforce Ventures, Slack, Temasek and Tiger Global.

How You'll Have Impact

This role is for a hands-on founding engineer on a small team with large growth potential. You will help define the solution through prototyping, and foundation building.

The role will evolve with the project’s different phases:

• Through the early stages of the product you will be expected to help prototyping, and make discovery and technical foundation decisions.
• In later stages you'll revisit past decisions, help strengthen the team through mentorship and coaching and help make the product more robust.

You will be entering a very dynamic environment, on a project that is essential to the success path of the business. You will be reporting into a Director of Engineering who reports directly to the CEO.

Responsibilities

• Laying the foundations for a new greenfield project.
• Rapid prototyping to achieve validation of ideas.
• Making decisions as to what problems to solve, and whether to build or buy.
• Setting the documentation and onboarding flows for a growing team of engineers.

Who You Are

You:

• Expand your horizons and frequently seek new solutions to problems.
• Are able to successfully compare and assess solutions.
• Respectfully help a team reach consensus through the use of data and past experience.

Technical skills:

• (2+ years) Experience with AWS [ELB, EC2, RDS, S3, ElasticCache, DynamoDB, SQS]
• (7+ years) Mastery of distributed systems.
• (7+ years) Relational Databases (Preferred: PostgreSQL)
• (1+ years) Exposure to Ruby on Rails.
• (1+ years) Exposure to Front End technologies (Preferred: React)

System development experience:

• (7+ years) Experience integrating with third party services.
• (7+ years) Experience writing APIs and documentation.
• (7+ years) Experience testing your code at all levels, and trade-offs with testing.

Desirable experience:

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Terraform.

We are looking for someone willing to make an impact through pragmatic decisions. A future colleague that has no ego and is able to reverse wrong decisions and listen to feedback from a growing team. We're also looking for someone who has experience mentoring and supporting peers' growth.

The Offer

• Fully remote, global team
• Flexible schedules
• Laptop assigned, Mac or Dell (Windows)
• Health Insurance Support
• Parental Leave
• $1000 USD for Home-Office Set up
• $100 USD monthly remote work stipend
• $1500 USD for Learning & Development

Where and How We Hire

Being a remote company enables us to hire the best talent around the world. We can engage with you in any of our jurisdictions listed below, all you need to do is demonstrate the legal right to work and be physically present in that country. Some roles may have specific workforce location requirements which will be noted on the job description.

• Entity: Canada, Germany, UK, USA
• Employer of Record: Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Australia
• Full Time Contractor (Self Employed): Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Estonia, Honduras, Hungary, Jamaica, Kenya, Lithuania, Nigeria, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, U.A.E., Uruguay

At Hopin, we're committed to cultivating an environment that promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are a global community and we believe our unique qualities must be celebrated as they are critical to our innovation. It's essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity, or otherwise. Inclusion isn't just an initiative at Hopin. We strive to embed it not just into our core values but throughout our entire ecosystem.