Job Summary
About Invoca
Commitment to our customers, collaboration, and continuous improvement in a positive environment are more than words written on a wall at Invoca, it's our way of life. We take pride in an inclusive and egoless culture that helps us drive innovation and build value for both our customers and our people. And of course, there's the competitive pay, great perks, and getting to work on an industry-leading product. If this sounds unlike most tech jobs you've had, you're right. Come join us. We're building something special.
We have proudly been recognized by INC Magazine with the Best Workplaces award two years in a row! Read more about this achievement and what makes us special here: https://www.invoca.com/press/invoca-recognized-as-an-inc-magazine-best-workplace-for-the-second-consecutive-year/
About the Engineering Team
You'll join a team where everyone, including you, is striving to constantly improve their knowledge of software development tools, practices, and processes. We are an incredibly supportive team. We swarm when problems arise and give great feedback to help each other grow. Working on our close-knit, cross-functional teams is a great chance to share and grow your knowledge of different domains from databases to front ends to telephony and everything in between.
We are passionate about many things: continuous improvement, working at a brisk but sustainable pace, writing resilient code, maintaining production reliability, paying down technical debt, hiring fantastic teammates; and we love to share these passions with each other.
Learn more about the Invoca development team on our blog at blog and check out our open source projects at open source projects.
About the Role
Are you looking to work with smart people who are as committed to building great teams as they are to building great products? Invoca offers a unique opportunity to make massive contributions to our production SaaS platform and cloud infrastructure. You will provide technical leadership for a team that is directly responsible for the roadmap, development, and maintenance of several Invoca services while upholding high standards via modern agile methodologies: test-driven development, continuous deployment, and DevOps.
You are excited about this opportunity because you get to:
Work across teams to architect and implement solutions to challenging problems, including:
Machine learning
Scalable and reliable SOA web applications
Responsive user interfaces
High performance REST and GraphQL APIs
Large scale data warehouses
Highly scalable and reliable VoIP telephony
Provide technical mentorship, code reviews, and technical project leadership for your team
Identify and drive the adoption of new technologies, best practices, and design patterns across the department
Use metrics and your team's collective experience to drive development decisions
Share your passion for learning about technical topics with your team and peers
About You
We are excited about you because you have:
A systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with exceptional communication skills, sense of ownership, and drive
An extensive track record of leading technical projects, maintaining features in production, and solid prioritization with a customer focused mindset
Experience mentoring software engineers
Advanced knowledge of Object Oriented Programming, Test Driven Development, Distributed Systems, and MVC design
Previous experience building SaaS applications, working closely with Product Management in a continuous deployment environment
A desire to create elegant, scalable, and maintainable tools and solutions
Experience with our core technologies: Ruby + Rails (or similar), MySQL/PostgreSQL, and HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
About Diversity and Inclusion
Our company is committed to creating a culture that is not only grounded in continuous learning, teamwork, and customer success, but is fair, equitable, and welcoming for everyone. Gregg Johnson CEO
And to us, diversity and inclusion means even more than treating current employees well and making them feel welcome. It also means proactively hiring people who bring different insights because of their unique demographics, ways of thinking, and prior experiences.
We intend to continue hiring great people and protecting our culture so everyone can be themselves and speak their minds. That way Invoca will always be a place filled with laughter, energy, hard work, thoughtfulness and respect.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
