Senior Full Stack Engineer

Owl Labs is seeking a full stack engineer to join our development team. The ideal candidate has strong experience across the stack, while showing expertise in a specific area(s). The ideal candidate has shown initiative in growing systems and can tell the story of what worked and what didn’t work, and how they overcame technical limitations. This role is inherently collaborative; you will work with engineering, marketing, design, and product teams, and interact with colleagues throughout all levels of the company. We are actively looking to increase the breadth of our team by finding candidates with strengths to complement ours. 

In this role, you will impact some of the company's most important product development goals as you develop the technology that is at the core of Owl Labs’ groundbreaking products.

What You’ll Do

We are looking for a full stack engineer who will help build new ecosystems around our tremendously successful core of robotics-inspired IoT products. You’ll create new applications and build infrastructure that enables new interactive experiences for our customers. You will also help maintain and monitor some of our existing systems. On a daily basis, you’ll carry out some of the various engineering tasks as listed below:

• Work with product and design teams to add new features and screens to existing applications that allow customers to manage and interact with Owl Labs’ hardware products.
• Build out and implement a component library based on our UX team's design system so customers have a consistent experience.
• Create new applications that run on our hardware platforms that interact with both the underlying hardware and our Cloud endpoints, as well as third-party endpoints.
• Add new IoT functionality & features that expand the capabilities and the value of our hardware products.
• Build new integrations with third-party vendors (e.g. Slack, Zoom, GCal).
• Automate our infrastructure and delivery pipelines. Create tooling so we can all work faster.

Qualifications:

More than a candidate that checks every box, we’re looking for people who are excited to work, learn, and grow at Owl Labs—no matter their background or how they identify. If that’s you, we hope you’ll apply for this role.

Requirements:

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, et al. or a great portfolio of web-based applications.
• 5+ years experience creating non-trivial platforms on AWS (or comparable cloud) as well as creating frontends for non-trivial applications.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, and the ability to develop clean modular code.
• Experience working in environments like NodeJS and Electron and frameworks like React.
• Experience with SQL and No-SQL data stores.
• Appreciation for building applications that show empathy for the customers using them, and the other developers who work with it.
• Ability to design and build from scratch.
• Skilled at jumping into an existing code base and building on top of it.
• Desire and ability to stretch beyond the environments, frameworks, and stacks that you’re already most comfortable with.
• Proactive and clear communication abilities.
• Appreciation for documentation.
• You are a maker. You do what it takes to ship and iterate on what you learn.

The best candidates will have:

• 5+ years experience creating non-trivial platforms on AWS (or comparable cloud) with cloudformation, terraform (or comparable technology) across multiple AZs.
• 5+ years experience creating non-trivial applications with React. You know the ecosystem like the back of your hand and are also comfortable working with "vanilla" JavaScript frontends.
• Experience with React Native.
• Experience with Electron and NodeJS.
• Experience with Honeycomb and sampling.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis.
• Mobile development experience (Android and/or iOS).

Owl Labs is over 40% remote and headquarters are based in Boston, MA. This is a full time remote position.

Please submit a cover letter with your application explaining why you think you’d be a great fit as our Senior Full Stack Engineer.

Who We Are

The environment at Owl Labs has been shaped by the top tech, marketing and sales talent leading it. We share a strong culture of support, learning, and collaboration. Embodying empathy for the remote worker or team, a love of emerging technology, and hustle and grit, everyday the Owl Labs team is shaping the future of work.  From leadership to our co-op interns, we encourage creativity, breaking the mold, moving fast to learn quickly and then adapting. It’s a culture of trying new things to stay ahead in the marketplace, and embracing new ideas at every level. We embrace remote work, today and everyday with over 40% of employees working remotely (pre-COVID). The Meeting Owl products contribute directly to the company’s success; it’s at the core of who we are and what we do. 

Owl Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to our values of embracing inclusivity and creating a culture where everyone feels respected and connected, no matter the location of their work environment. We invite applications from people of all walks of life and are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need accommodations due to a disability, please let us know.

What We Offer

• Option to Work Remotely: We practice what we preach. Employees work at our Boston HQ, across the US, and often work a hybrid mix of in-office and remote.
• Flexible Schedule: We all work hard, and so we believe in working whenever you're at your best.
• Free Health Insurance: Enroll in Owl Labs's health plan for $1 for you and your family.
• Unlimited Vacation: We have big goals. It makes sense to take what you need, when you need it.
• Celebrate Inclusivity: Owlers get important holidays, including International Women's Day, Indigenous People's Day and MLK Day.
• Incredible Team: Learn alongside phenomenal folks from some of Boston's most successful tech companies.