Full-stack Engineer

📋 Description

• • Join Ocra, a dynamic and forward-thinking company revolutionizing the mobility, hospitality, and event parking industries. We are building a cutting-edge SaaS platform that transforms human-driven expertise into a white-label AI/ML system, seamlessly connecting diverse entities and systems. As a mid-level Full-Stack Engineer, you will be an integral part of a small, distributed team where autonomy, curiosity, and adaptability are paramount. If you thrive in an environment that values innovation and problem-solving over rigid processes, and you're eager to contribute to a product that is reshaping entire industries, this is the opportunity for you.
• • In this role, you will be instrumental in the end-to-end development of our SaaS platform. Your primary responsibility will be to design, build, and maintain robust full-stack features, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance. This involves a deep dive into both client and server-side development, crafting elegant solutions that address complex business needs.
• • A significant aspect of your work will involve developing and optimizing APIs. This includes not only building new integrations but also tackling the challenge of working with existing, sometimes poorly documented or 'messy,' partner integrations. Your ability to reverse-engineer systems and create seamless connections will be crucial for the success of our platform.
• • We are committed to delivering high-quality software. Therefore, you will be expected to write clean, well-tested, and thoroughly documented code. This includes implementing comprehensive unit and integration tests to ensure the stability and maintainability of our codebase. Your dedication to code quality will directly impact the reliability of our platform.
• • Collaboration is at the heart of our team culture. You will actively participate in discussions around architecture and design, contributing your insights during design reviews and providing constructive feedback during code reviews. This collaborative approach ensures that we build the best possible solutions together.
• • Beyond feature development, you will contribute to the operational excellence of our platform. This includes creating and maintaining shared resources such as onboarding guides, runbooks, and essential documentation. Your efforts in this area will empower the entire team and streamline our operations.
• • Performance optimization will be a key focus. You will be responsible for identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks, with a particular emphasis on optimizing SQL queries and managing scaling workloads within our AWS environment. Your expertise in this area will ensure our platform remains responsive and efficient as it grows.
• • We encourage experimentation and innovation. You will have the opportunity to explore and experiment with AI tools and approaches. This dual purpose involves leveraging AI to accelerate your own development workflow and, more importantly, to inform and enhance our proprietary AI-enabled product offerings. Your curiosity in this domain will drive our technological advancements.
• • You will be working with a modern technology stack, primarily Python for backend development and JavaScript/TypeScript for frontend. Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL, in-memory data stores like Redis, and NoSQL databases like DynamoDB is essential. A strong understanding of query optimization techniques for these databases is highly valued.
• • Familiarity with modern testing frameworks and methodologies is expected, enabling you to build resilient and reliable software. Hands-on experience with AWS services for deployment, monitoring, and scaling is a must, as you'll be instrumental in managing our cloud infrastructure.
• • The ability to effectively build and consume APIs, including navigating and integrating with external systems, is a core requirement. You should be comfortable working in a distributed team environment, utilizing text-first communication tools such as Slack, GitHub, Notion, Linear, and Google Docs for seamless collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• • This role offers a unique chance to work on challenging problems at the intersection of AI, SaaS, and industry-specific solutions. You will have the autonomy to make significant technical decisions and see the direct impact of your work on our growing user base and the industries we serve.