Job Description: Fullstack Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not specified

Padlet is building software for a good education. A good education is one that inspires curiosity, creativity, and community. Our software enables that through visual content creation and collaboration in millions of classrooms worldwide. Exceptional products are exceptional in all dimensions that matter. Take the Dyson vacuum cleaner. Not only is it good at vacuuming, it’s beautiful, feels good in the hand, is portable, and is easy to use. We are looking for Fullstack Engineers to build exceptional software products for a billion people.

Requirements

• Someone has been told: “you write good code.”
• Knowledge of copying and pasting code from Stack Overflow.
• A good sense of humor (Bonus).

Responsibilities

• Owning and implementing new features that touch multiple layers of the tech stack. (e.g., creating a beautiful search experience.)
• Creating delight. (e.g., through animations and micro UI.)
• Making the web apps faster and more reliable. (e.g., reducing JavaScript payload or making network requests more resilient.)
• Improving how we work. (e.g., improving our component library or tools we use to translate the web app into 40+ languages.)

Tech Stack

• Mobile Apps: React Native (with Swift and Java where necessary)
• Backend: Ruby (Rails), Typescript, Elixir (Phoenix), and Python
• Web: VueJS, Tailwind
• Storage: Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Firestore, and Snowflake

Additional Information

• Users: 40 million
• Countries: Over 200
• Languages: Over 40
• Scale: Processes a lot of data real fast.
• Engineering Philosophy: Creative problem-solving within constraints.
• Shipping: Ships often.
• Values: Beautiful code.

Company Information

• Vision: Every child in the world will grow up with Mickey Mouse and Padlet.
• Product: We are making the default way of collecting and sharing thoughts on the Internet. People love the product.
• Impact: One of the most used apps on the planet.
• Funding: Venture backed and fiscally responsible. Built to last one hundred years.
• Team Size: Approximately 60 people (a million active users per person).

Notes

The job description mentions some challenges:

• Limited code coverage
• Deployment process could be improved
• Project management processes are still developing, leading to occasional re-specing.