ObservePoint · 4 months ago
Senior or Staff Software Engineer, Engine
Pleasant Grove, Utah, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
2+ years expObservePoint is a company dedicated to helping users govern their websites through an automated platform that analyzes and validates high-traffic web pages. They are seeking a Senior or Staff Software Engineer for their engine team, responsible for developing core technology that crawls websites and performs deep inspections. The role involves collaboration with product management and other engineers to deliver scalable solutions while maintaining a focus on continuous improvement and innovation.
AnalyticsBig DataEnterprise SoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileSoftware
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain core technology that crawls websites and performs deep inspections
Collaborate with product management and other engineers to educate the company on important web concepts
Implement new features in the engine as web technologies evolve
Resolve technical debt while building new features
Participate in continuous deployment and automated monitoring of services
Qualification
Required
Computer science degree or equivalent experience. Much of our work requires experience reasoning about scaling, algorithms, distributed systems, and data structures. Given our high volume, the wrong decision can result in high costs and downtime
Web platform knowledge. You should be familiar with HTTP, the browser DOM, cookies, and the Chrome network inspector. This is a back-end role, but our engine code scans websites, so the ideal candidate will have some browser-based front-end development experience as well
The ability to collaborate with product management and other engineers. Often, this team educates the rest of the company on important web concepts. So we want people who are excited about working with people from a variety of roles, not only fellow engineers
2+ years of experience building distributed systems. AWS experience is a plus, but we care more about your ability to learn new technologies than knowing a list of specific technologies
Willingness to make commitments and deliver them. We believe in giving engineers the freedom to determine their own schedules, and then holding ourselves accountable to deliver on those commitments
Strong written and verbal communication skills. Half of our team members are located in Europe. Effective written communication is key to spanning time zones. We believe that the best engineering work comes from clear writing
Willingness to embrace AI development tools. Our engineers are becoming experts in AI development
Preferred
Experience with TypeScript (on NodeJS) and Java. We prefer to hire people who love learning new languages and technologies. If you have experience with multiple languages, and you want to learn something new, this is a good place to do that
A love of process improvement. If you enjoy helping your teammates be more efficient through automation and building tools, you'll fit in great here
Desire to work in scrum, and open to process changes as we learn and grow together
Experience with continuous deployment. We trust our developers to ship code to production every day. You ship it, you own it. We don't believe in tossing code 'over the fence' for someone else to operate
Experience with Infrastructure as Code. We use Terraform, but we love learning from people with other experiences
Experience developing code that runs in Docker. Docker is great, but it's a different paradigm when your code needs to be interruptible and auto-scalable
Experience with distributed queueing systems. Distributed queues are the backbone of our architecture. We move millions of messages every day between our many services
Experience developing Chrome extensions
Benefits
Engineers can attend conferences
Participate in hackathons
Receive subscriptions to developer tools like Claude Code, Cursor AI, and ChatGPT Pro.
Enjoy the provided lunch at our Pleasant Grove office
Company
ObservePoint
Trusted Data. Actionable Insights.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$37.52MKey Investors
BYU Cougar CapitalPelion Venture Partners
2018-01-17Series Unknown· $3M
2016-12-13Series B· $19M
2016-03-29Series B· $7.02M
Leadership Team
John Pestana
CEO
Jared Wilks
Chief Financial Officer
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