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Founding Engineer
- Node.js
- AWS
- TypeScript
- MongoDB
- React.js
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Posted: 1 year ago
Mechanical engineering is the backbone of modern civilization. Regular mechanical engineers invented steam engines, designed the first cars, and sent humans to space. Now, we spend our time maintaining server racks, arguing about GD&T, and working with bad software.
While hardware development speed has been the bottleneck for innovation, software engineers have been given the ~gift of the gods ~: collaboration.
In the early 2000’s, software engineering was plagued by the same issues that mechanical engineers face today, but were unlocked when Git rose to glory in 2005. Git enabled concurrent, same-file collaboration and enabled software engineers to focus on what they do best: code.
While software engineers built tooling to efficiently manage collaboration at a massive scale and innovate at rapid velocity, mechanical engineers work like librarians: check-in, check-out. ShapeCI brings the best parts of software engineering to mechanical engineers so they can shred their library cards and be engineers again.
Read more about why ShapeCI here
The Role
ShapeCI is looking to bring on a Founding Lead Engineer to own engineering for the company and work directly with the CEO, Ashank, to redefine how mechanical engineers build hardware.
ShapeCI is on a mission to be the accelerant to hardware development that Git was to software. You will be working in a dynamic
Responsibilities
- Develop core product autonomously while owning the codebase and technical infrastructure
- Identify and implement cutting-edge solutions using new technologies you may be unfamiliar with
- Help define company culture and build a world-class team of rule-breakers
- Understand user’s problems and leverage your empathy to build great product
Requirements
- 2+ years of full-stack engineering experience in a professional environment
- Ability to pick up new technologies from documentation quickly and apply them to new solutions
- Familiarity with Typescript, React, Node.js, MongoDB, and AWS
- Previous exposure to mechanical design or manufacturing workflows
Compensation
The range for compensation is $90,000 - $110,000 and 5% - 15% equity in ShapeCI. Note that these ranges are a good faith estimate of likely pay for the role.
Extras
Extraordinary people come from all kinds of places. Here are some nice to haves that I have noticed in strong technical leaders and contributors
- Open Source contributions
- Constant learners