Senior Backend-leaning Full Stack Engineer

Remote

Quickly maturing startup seeking like minded Sr. Backend-leaning Fullstack Engineer! PacketFabric redefines how companies procure, consume, and manage their network connectivity. The technical team is a small, talented, and close knit group and we need a team member to help us accomplish our goal of making the best darn carrier network on the planet.

As a well rounded software engineer, you should definitely be the type that appreciates diversity in your day, and challenges outside of your comfort level! A typical day in the life of a PacketFabric senior software engineer might include these types of activities:

• Designing a deterministic lifecycle workflow for our next product offering.
• Writing core platform code for a new feature, and unit tests for functionality.
• Refactoring and improving existing code for performance and simplicity. For example, breaking a large method into smaller, more maintainable and easily tested methods.
• Building command line tools to help network engineers better manage network state.
• Researching additional ideas, you may have to improve the product/platform overall and sharing with the team.
• Interacting with customers and/or sales on a bug in the software, quickly resolving it, and coordinating across the team to push a fix.
• Working with backend engineers and discussing quirks in network protocols and network interconnection which translate rapid API and UI changes.

Skills & Requirements

The right candidate will have an abundance of hard core programming skills, have solid instincts for API usability and design patterns. You are probably a full stack developer who naturally gravitates towards work on a product core. You know how to sacrifice algorithmic elegance for getting it done on deadline. More specifics include:

• Extensive experience with Python and PHP in large applications developed in a team environment.
• Expert unit tester.
• Experience in large scale distributed systems.
• Extensive experience with the HTTP protocol and developing and using RESTful APIs.
• A solid understanding of OO programming paradigms.
• Experience with a message queue system like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Experience using NoSQL data stores like Redis.
• Be completely at home on any *nix command line and building your own tools.
• Very comfortable using Git in a team environment (i.e. pull-requests, branch management, rebasing).
• Experience working in an environment leveraging remote communication collaboration tools like Slack, Zoom etc.
• Never being afraid to venture boldly where none have gone before and develop code where there are no previous libraries to draw from.

Preferred Experience

• A huge plus for actually doing any router/switch configuration or infrastructure automation.
• Previous exposure to layer 2/3 networking protocols and concepts such as IPv4/6, VLANs, VPNs, BGP, etc.
• Experience with Python-based web application frameworks like Flask, Django, or Sanic
• Any experience interacting with physical world equipment - industrial, medical, etc
• Experience creating highly maintainable Javascript.
• SQL experience.
• Experience with Vue.js, Angular and AngularJS.
• GraphQL
• Experience creating large scale data visualizations of any type.

About PacketFabric, LLC.

What PacketFabric doesn't offer:

• A dress code - so sorry, no casual Fridays
• Pre-meetings where we plan meetings
• Hours wasted in traffic commuting to the office
• Dull moments
• Rigid and defined job structure

What PacketFabric does offer:

• An opportunity to create in the space of new technologies like SDN and large data sets
• Flexibility to play the different hats in a start up
• The change to disrupt entrenched Internet infrastructure
• Interaction and involvement with the community groups such as Open-IX, Nanog, and RIPE
• New and interesting problems around automation of fundamental Internet infrastructure
• A team that likes to learn from each other
• A continuous develop environment where we are always turning out new features
• The ability to work with many different technologies
• The ability to work with lots of open source technology
• A non-corporate and relaxed atmosphere, with small company culture
• VERY good health, dental, and 401K

Deadline for applications: 01.02.2023.