Overview Join the founding engineering team as Rally's 5th engineer 🎉. Work
alongside the co-founder/CTO and founding engineering team to scale Rally's
User Research CRM. You’ll be responsible for standing up core infra, creating
new services used by our team of product engineers, and help build new
features. At Rally, we value small teams and full ownership. As a senior
backend engineer, the expectation is for you to tech lead each project. You'll
be responsible for planning, scoping, executing, testing, and finally
releasing high quality, scalable services, infra, and products. Lastly, by
joining our small engineering team, you'll help build the company culture and
define what engineering looks like at Rally. Who you are You’re a user-driven
, kind , scrappy engineer who loves shipping code. You’re a builder at heart
who values putting the user experience above all else. You care about well
crafted products and have an opinion on what makes a product great While
passionate about learning new technologies, you understand technology is a
means to an end You're not afraid to get your hands dirty in an unfamiliar
part of codebase to get the job done You're energized after talking with a
user. You love moving fast. You know when to take shortcuts and when to dive
deep. You’re autonomous and communicative. You have strong opinions that are
loosely held. You challenge the status quo but are quick to find common
ground. You bring your authentic self to work every day. You are a team player
and treat everyone with respect, including our users. What you’ll do Co-own
our core infra (AWS/Terraform, Postgres, Elasticsearch) and core backend
services like email and search Create new frameworks or libraries that can be
leveraged by the product team to build new features Lead backend focused
product development by building new features into Rally Stand-up 0 to 1
infrastructure across the stack Ensure backend systems maintain a high bar for
security, privacy, reliability, performance, and code quality Our Tech Stack
Fullstack Typescript (Node.js, React, Next.js) GraphQL Postgres Elasticsearch
AWS / Terraform Github Actions Requirements You have experience developing and
maintaining complex web applications You have experience building and
maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure You have deep experience with SQL
You have experience working with Javascript/Typescript OR are able to quickly
ramp up to Typescript
