At Along, we are growing our founding team of passionate makers. As the founding Engineering Lead, you will plan, build, and test new features for users. We are a very small team currently and you will have the unique chance to become heavily involved in the core of our product development and vision. You are a leader from day one!

You will translate business needs into working software by taking ownership of the entire software life cycle – design, development, test, release and maintenance (end-to-end). You will also focus on improving Along’s performance and reliability by building new features or polishing parts of the product as we gather feedback and learnings from users.

This role is remote between the US and EU. Location is open and can be in both continents.

• Essential part of building the foundational infrastructure and capabilities of Along
• Contributing to the end-to-end software development on all relevant software platforms within Along, as well as other software development-related tasks with direct reporting to our founders.
• Contributing to the maintenance of Along's software products and technologies, including tasks related to technology deployment, integration, configuration, troubleshooting and error resolution.
• Upholding Along's standards on agility and co-creation by contributing towards agile ways of working through participation in sprint ceremonies and collaborating with product and design team members
• Upholding Along's standards on customer centricity by building software with end users in mind and helping towards building the best experience for users through user testing and customer support/service management.
• Building integrations to essential tools from a sales team’s tech-stack with a primary focus on CRM’s - any prior experience here is plus

✅ 3+ years working experience as a full-stack software engineer working in a team contributing to a production codebase

✅ A solid understanding of computer science fundamentals (design patterns, data structures and algorithms) and software development lifecycle (version control, test automation, etc.)

✅ Experience building web applications and enjoy engaging with product & design while working across both the frontend and backend stack

✅ Experienced in web development, server side development, API architecture and design, data and information architecture

✅ Demonstrated fluency with Node.js, Nestjs, SQL, JavaScript/Typescript, Java

✅ Experience with software development frameworks such as React and Next.js

✅ Experience with cloud engineering and DevOps on cloud platforms (like AWS & Azure or GCloud) and CI/CD tools like (GitHub, Docker, Terraform)

✅ Proactive communication skills and a desire to work in a collaborative environment

✅ An interest in learning from others and digging into new challenges

✅ An inclusive and collaborative attitude towards building features, solving problems, and growing teams

✅ Taking ownership is key. We rely on you to own projects

💰 Competitive Salary

⏰ Duration: Open-ended contracts

📃 Equity: Upon discussion

🌴 Time off: 25 days depending on location

📍 Remote: We are based in NY and in Berlin timezones

📈 Learn fast: Clear career growth options

At Along, we believe that anyone can do anything, if you are passionate! We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.