Are you a #Get Shit Done type of engineer?

Let’s build the next-Gen Social Skilling platform together!

About the role

We're looking for someone who:

Has 5+ years of experience as a full-time software engineer on consumer-facing or social media/GenZ-targeting tech platforms.
Has knowledge of Generative Ai models and has built something useful.
Has built products from the ground up using frontend frameworks like React, Next.js and Typescript and is familiar with building backend using Node.js, GraphQL, and Postgres (microservices or web frameworks).
4+ years of experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.
Not Required: A CS degree. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and don't believe you need a university degree to be an exceptional engineer.

We have the following expectations:

You will build and ship high-quality products quickly.
You are inherently empathic to our GenZ user base and build features to solve their needs that are forever emerging and we may never have expected or explicitly planned.
You will help drive the technical roadmap forward by contributing to architectural decisions and building new infrastructure, services, and applications from zero to one.
You will push the quality and excellence bar by advocating for and practising engineering best practices, including code reviews, testing, code quality, security, and monitoring.
Your passion for your craft drives you to improve systems and code without being explicitly told.
You are excited at the opportunity to grow with the company. We are very early, and you will need to level up quickly in both execution and leadership to grow with us.

About the company

Grandshake was founded in 2017 with a mission to help young people figure out what’s next before finishing high school. Grandshake has been a popular brand that attracts young people from 500+ Australian Secondary schools onto our platform. We have reached and influenced over 450,000 young people across Australia to date through our Career Exploration, Upskilling and Virtual Work Experience products.

We are raking in approx. $500k ARR (Q1 2023) with projections towards $1 mill ARR by the end of Q4 2023. We don't have all the answers, and this is not a company where you'll be given a set of tasks every week. Instead, we'll work together to understand customer needs and do everything necessary to address them.

What’s next for Grand:

We are building a Social Skiling platform for young people. Imagine TikTok meets LinkedIn - a social platform for GenZers to level up skills and build connections aka LinkedIn for pre and early professionals.

We have a GenZ-facing product to build and for that, we have a high-level game plan for the next 3 months, 6 months, and 2 years, and we are looking for a sharp engineer person to get down to brass tacks and execute.

Is it a Yes? or a Hell Yes!

About the interview

Intro call: a 30 mins chat about your background and past experiences and see if we're good fits for each other.
Casual chat: a 30 mins casual chat about your goals, more in-depth about your background, and discuss Grand value fit.
Technical deep dive: ~1-hour session around simple CRUD app using react + any backend language/framework of your choosing. OR a technical deep dive into one full-stack project you've built.
Technical screen: 1-hour live debugging or practical coding interview that simulates working at Grand. This could include but is not limited to making API calls, debugging live code, etc.
Final call: ~ 2 hours interview with a technical design question and behavioural/cultural questions.

Founding FullStack Engineer