Staff Software Engineer, Sessions - job 1 of 2

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 38 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.

The Role

As part of the Sessions pod, you'll be shaping the future of a core component in the event experience: interactive live discussions. We provide the tools to help organisers, speakers and attendees engage with their community in sessions that feel closer than a typical lecture or meeting.

We are looking for a self-motivated engineer with a passion for our business and for technology innovation. We look for individuals with deep knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML who are comfortable writing custom JavaScript but also know when to apply off-the-shelf solutions for the problem. We also value people who are advocates for user experience and seek to get the little details right. We currently work with TypeScript, React, and Next.js, but the ability to adapt to changing technology is an important strength. You believe in leaving things better than you found it - whether that be a piece of code, a jira ticket, or the new team you’re joining. We have a #NoEgo philosophy, so we love to collaborate and learn from each other together to come up with the best solution.

Responsibilities

• Architecting, developing and shipping customer facing code.
• Supporting and mentoring the direct team.
• Helping deliver a maintainable, performant, and testable code base.
• Writing asynchronous code that interacts with real time content.
• Understand and influence back end decisions to drive for a better overall system.
• Identifying unaddressed business needs or inefficiencies, translating them into actionable plans for multiple teams.
• Helping elevate Hopin as an engineering organisation, working on transversal initiatives and raising awareness of best practices.

About You

• Up to date with modern JavaScript practices, including reactive design and state management.
• Proficient with React.JS.
• Great understanding of the DOM and client-side performance.
• Experienced in at least one strongly typed language.
• Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for front end applications.
• Familiar with all the types of testing, from end to end to unit testing.
• Organised and self-motivated, you master effective communication with colleagues in a fully remote, global team.
• T-shaped, with frontend expertise but capability across the stack. Ruby and Node.js knowledge are a plus.

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, 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.