Software Engineer – Backend | Fountain | Remote (United Kingdom)

<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">When you join the Fountain team, you become part of the leading enterprise solution for frontline workforce management. Fountain’s automated, customizable platform provides a seamless applicant experience for workers, while ensuring organizations can scale and manage their frontline talent.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’ve helped hundreds of companies like Stitch Fix, GoPuff, Fetch, and sweetgreen to hire, onboard, and manage over 14 million workers in more than 75 countries.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">In 2022, we closed $185M in our Series C, led by SoftBank and B Capital.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Join our growing team of highly collaborative, ambitious, and forward-thinking Fountaineers as we empower our hundreds of customers and millions of frontline workers around the world.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Let’s elevate frontline work together.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Position Overview:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">As a Software Engineer &#8211; Backend in the Fountain Worker Experience team, you will be part of a dedicated product team of developers working throughout the entire product cycle, which includes planning, architecture, development, and maintenance of the Fountain products. To do so, you will receive support from product managers, designers, and other software engineers.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">To succeed in this position, it is important to have a proven track record of working with rich enterprise products and a solid technical background in backend development, data structures, and architecture. A high level of autonomy and the ability to work well as a team in a remote setting will be crucial for success in this role.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">The Worker Experience team is organized into product squads, each responsible for independently developing new products using a product-led growth approach. New products are released every quarter, with a focus on product-based software development. It is important that you are comfortable with this approach.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are a rapidly growing team and product within Fountain that operates with agility and speed. You will be expected to make decisions even when faced with uncertainty, and you will have the freedom to do so. In fact, you will operate with the autonomy typically found in early-stage product development, rather than in a larger organization.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">This role requires collaboration within a globally distributed organization, spanning different time zones, continents, and cultures (including Western and Northern Europe, USA, South Africa, India, and more).</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What you&#8217;ll be doing</strong>:</p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Plan and take responsibility for delivering your product</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Design, develop, test, and maintain product features</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Collaborate to enhance core stack technologies and architecture</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Review and collaborate with other developers&#8217; work</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ensure the quality, reliability, operations, and security of your product</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Collaborate closely with the product team throughout the product life cycle</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Implement and maintain the stack using best practices and current pragmatic boundaries</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Provide clear reports on your product scope, planning, and team members to your superiors</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What you should bring</strong>:</p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">5+ years of experience in software engineering</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Demonstrated experience in product-oriented software development</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strong technical expertise in software development and architecture, TypeScript, and cloud-first solutions</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ability to work independently and confidently, even in dynamic situations and with limited information</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, in English, to facilitate effective collaboration with the team. Proficiency in French is also highly regarded</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Nice to have:</strong></p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience in B2B SaaS startup environments and remote international settings is strongly preferred</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Familiarity with event-driven architectures, serverless architectures, high volume architectures, API strategies, MongoDB, AWS, micro-services, web security, and Agile methods is highly desirable</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Location:</strong> You will work remotely</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Even if you do not meet all the requirements above, we still encourage you to apply for this position. While we try to be thorough with our prerequisites, not everything about you as a candidate can be condensed into a list of bullet points. What do you have to lose?</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Fountain offers an incredibly unique work environment.</strong> We employ a diverse team all over the world. Each Fountaineer is given the freedom to do their best work from wherever they choose. We also understand the importance of in-person connections and hold in-person meetings with your team and meet annually as an organization to build our relationships and focus on the future of moving Fountain Forward.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">The benefits we offer in the United States include competitive health plans and a retirement plan. Some Fountain-wide perks offered to all employees across the globe include a flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, monthly lunch stipends, annual allowances for ongoing education related to your profession and career advancement, along with home office, cell phone, and wellness reimbursements. Fountain is a global employer, so some benefit offerings will vary from country to country.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Fountain is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status.</p>
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