Railway

Railway

Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Product

Remote (United States) · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 896 days ago
TypeScriptFull-Stack DevelopmentGitTemporalGraphQLRESTResearchCommunicationProblem Solving

About the role

  • Some projects full-stack engineers have worked on in the past
  • This is a high impact, high agency role with direct effect on company culture, trajectory, and outcome.
  • A desire to be a part of the entire project development process.

Responsibilities

  • We're a startup that's well funded, with cool problems, which lets us implement novel solutions!
  • Build an application to spin up and spin down a container using our GQL API. Please deploy on Railway before the interview and we will review the code during your interview. The app needs to have a UI component and not just a backend that uses the API.
  • Build features end-to-end, from the UI in our dashboard to orchestrating workflows that interact with our microservices using Temporal.
  • Craft intuitive interfaces that allow our users to interface with powerful computing paradigms, with help from our design team.
  • Build TypeScript + GraphQL APIs with strong guarantees around modeling data, allowing both internal and external users to build against.
  • Rebuild logging infrastructure https://blog.railway.app/p/launch-week-01-observability to support 1B logs/day, from configuring ClickHouse to developing a brand new observability UI
  • An ability to autonomously lead, design, and implement great product experiences, from front to back.
  • Experience managing complex asynchronous backend jobs for something like a build/deploy pipeline.
  • Great written and verbal communication skills for expressing ideas, designs, and potential solutions in mostly-asynchronous manner
  • We want you to own it.

Requirements

  • Experience with, or at least the desire to learn Rust to contribute to our open-source repositories (CLI, Nixpacks https://nixpacks.com/docs, etc).
  • This is completely open ended and we're just trying to see who you are, what you want to do, and where you wanna go.
  • You can, and SHOULD! ask us questions ahead of time.
  • A strong understanding of frontend architecture to build interactivity-rich systems for fetching, mutating, and rendering data effectively

Skills

  • This is a remote position available anywhere in the world!
  • Our core mission at Railway is to make software engineers higher leverage.
  • Learn about your problem solving skills.

Compensation

  • Great salary, full health benefits including dependents, strong equity grants, equipment stipend, and much more.

Benefits

  • At Railway, we provide best in class benefits.
  • Great salary, full health benefits including dependents, strong equity grants, equipment stipend, and much more.

Company info

  • We have very few meetings.
  • Just a Monday and a Friday to go over the Company Board.
  • We think your time is sacred, whether it's at work, or outside of work.
  • We're a company with a high ownership, high autonomy culture.
  • We hope that you'll come in, help us, and over the course of many years do the best work of your life.
  • When we bring you onboard, we expect you to change the company.
  • 0-5 minutes: Introductions
  • 5-35 minutes: Walking through the code, talking about how you'd extend it
  • 35-50 minutes: Noodling on technology, frameworks, how you think about product
  • 50-60 minutes: Time for you to ask your interviewers question
  • Meet the Team
  • You'll meet the Team, which will be comprised of 4 people from vastly different sections of the company.
  • We abhor "busywork" and think, whether it's community, engineering, operations, etc there's always opportunity for creative and high leverage solutions.
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