The profile we are seeking
We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to steer the backend team towards successful project completion, coding best practices implementation and maintain overall quality of SustainSoft’s front- and back-end applications. Directly reporting to the CTO, you'll play a crucial role in defining and executing tech strategy and implement it to ensure the product roadmap is met. As the primary point of contact with the Product Team, you'll oversee the development, maintenance and optimization of server-side components of our software and ensure a delightful user experience. Overall, you'll lead the technical directions to take, participate in product design and feature development and ensure code quality and optimization.
Your role, initially operational, will quickly evolve, given the rapid growth of the company, into more strategic responsibilities including team management.
Your missions
- Actively participate in the development of our product and its new features
- Define the right technologies and strategies for front- and back-end
- Manage the back-end development of our product from end-to-end
- Ensure high quality code and optimize application performance
- Structure and improve the implementation of best practices
- Design and implement RESTful APIs
- Provide code documentation and other inputs to technical documents
- Troubleshoot and debug to optimize performance
- Help in recruiting your tech teammates
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align development with business goals
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies and incorporate them into projects
- Review and provide feedback on code and design
Ideal profile & experience
We're seeking a dynamic individual with a proactive mindset, ready to tackle diverse challenges and take ownership of various issues. The primary skill required is to feel confident when making decisions and take ownership of those in any situation to align with our “doer” culture. Additionally, the ideal candidate should thrive in unstructured environments, excel at multitasking, and demonstrate an entrepreneurial spirit.
Key skills include
· 5+ years of experience as a Lead Developer / Software Engineer / Fullstack Developer
· Excellent knowledge and execution skills in back JavaScript
· Client-Centric attitude: our success hinges on developing applications that are useful for our customers
· Thrive in an ever-changing environment, navigating through ambiguity with ease
· Maintain a goal-oriented approach
· Strong interest in sustainability and curiosity to explore various CSR topics and frameworks as well as different industries, embracing the diversity of challenges with enthusiasm and adaptability
· Excellent oral and writing skills
· Fluent French + English is a plus
· Previous experience in a startup is a plus