Company Name: Leftlane Software

Job Details: Easy,Apply,Hiring,Remotely,in,Austin,,TX,In-Office,or,Remote,Entry,level

Job Url: https://builtin.com/job/early-engineer-leftlane/2446435

Job Description: LeftLane's mission to become the operating system for the 70k independent used car dealerships across the nation. We help independent dealerships manage the lifecycle of their inventory, secure financing for their customers, keep accounting records, comply with regulations, and learn more about their business. This is an opportunity to get significant equity, significant responsibility, and ultimately, build a product that enables small businesses to serve ~40 million used car buyers every year. Here is some background context on the company.ResponsibilitiesAs an early engineer, you'll be wearing many hats across the stack and will interact directly with customers to gather feedback. You'll have a loud voice in driving early decisions. You'll need to:drive and evangelize best practices across at least one area of the stackown greenfield feature development end-to-endown entire product verticals (inventory management, accounting, CRM, collections, etc.) and/or infrastructure horizontals (auth, CI, deployment, background jobs, etc.)weigh the tradeoffs of decisions for technology and architecture adoptionThis will be a good fit if you:think an early-stage startup would be funare excited about the upside potentialare ambitious i.e. want to run your own team or be a founder yourself in the futuretake ownership of problems i.e. will do what needs to be doneyou like being rewarded directly for your high outputThis will not be a good fit if:you want to specialize strongly in one area or technologyyou cannot iterate quicklycannot take ownership and initiativeThe StackWe strongly believe that tight feedback loops and fast iteration drive great product. That is why we are obsessed with developer experience, pushing every commit to production, observability/alerting, feature flags/experiments, and test driven development.StackRedwoodJS (node)GraphQLReact + ApolloPostgresRenderLogisticsFull time onlyOnsite/Remote: We prefer a flexible onsite model. Given how early we are we believe it will let us move the fastest and collaborate the smoothest. Hours: At the end of the day what matters is the work and so you'll control your hours (if you need to WFH for X reason or swap a Monday for a Saturday or XYZ you can do that as long as expectations for work are being met), but we expect some minimum overlap with the team to make collaboration flow, 4/5 days a week 10 - 4 in the office would be a reasonable baseBenefitscompetitive salarysignificant equity100% paid high tier health / vision / dental plans (ultra premium 90% covered)11 paid company holidays