We are looking for an ambitious hands-on lead engineer to drive our technology roadmap forward, contribute significantly to the growth and evolution of our platform and build a talented team beneath them. As an early team member, you will have the opportunity to work on all aspects of our platform:

At MakerSights you will

• Help build a fast-growing, profitable business that delivers significant long-term value to its employees, brands and investors
• Have a key leadership position, with significant ownership over the direction of our technology, roadmap and recruiting process
• Build great software. The features and data-sets you (and engineering team) ideate and develop will help brands radically improve their product development efficiency
• Contribute to building a rich company culture, where talented people and teams are stretched to grow professionally and personally

Key responsibilities

• Building mobile-first, intuitive interfaces that drive strong user engagement
• Furthering our merchant dashboard, a data synthesis and visualization application providing concrete answers to the most critical brand investment questions 
• Enhancing our data architecture and APIs, providing scalability as we add new data inputs to strengthen our platform’s network effect 
• Leading the recruitment, hiring and management of a best-in-class engineering team
• Helping craft our company strategy, ensuring the tech roadmap delivers upon all strategic goals 
• Interfacing with clients to ensure we deliver a product that drives value and meets their needs

Requirements

• Motivated by ownership and responsibility
• Excited to build an enduring company
• Posses great communication skills, keen to work directly with clients and internal cross-teams
• Have 6+ years professional software engineering experience, including 4+ years back-end
• Experienced scoping and building web applications delivering measurable impact to end users
• Have experience developing in open-source frameworks; background in MEAN stack a plus
• Understand RESTful web services and API architecture

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.