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Odeko is on a mission to champion your neighborhood cafes, coffee shops, and other establishments through technology. Whether we’re saving small business owners hours every week with our tech-based operating platform, reducing CO2 emissions by consolidating deliveries, or developing a user experience that makes every new customer feel like a regular, Odeko supports our small business partners from open to close. Local coffee shops and cafes are the backbone of any given community, and we’re here to help manage the day-to-day tasks with a platform so intuitive, it’s kinda like magic.
The Odeko team is diverse, passionate, and innovative. Our 400+ employees are spread across numerous departments and business lines, but are single-minded in our mission to develop technology to support the many needs of our customers. We believe that small businesses need support now more than ever, and that Odeko is uniquely positioned to provide that support.
At Odeko, a Senior Full Stack / Front End Focused Software Engineer is responsible for the creation of experiences that deliver value to our users. Our front end engineers focus on applications closest to our users but still work across all levels of the tech stack. Through our engineers we are constantly innovating and improving how small businesses and their supply chains work. Full stack / front end engineers at Odeko are curious, comfortable working independently, technically competent, energized by building, able to drive projects end to end and attuned to stakeholders’ needs.
How Full Stack / Front End Engineers make an impact:
- Build, optimize and scale products and services for cafe owners, vendors and coffee drinkers. They have a lot of autonomy in the implementation of these critical services — we value results over process.
- Prototype new ideas and iterate fast towards the best customer experience for cafes and users.
- Interact with the stakeholders of our products such as Product, Design, Marketing and Operations.
- Serve as a technical resource and engineering mentor for other developers.
Our tech stack comprises Ruby/Rails, React Native/Web (Typescript/JavaScript), Federated GraphQL, and Kafka all on top of Kubernetes, Docker and AWS in a microservices oriented architecture. Next.js, Vue, and Netsuite are nice to haves. We try to pick the right tool for every job, but we’re willing to experiment and learn.
Daily Work of a Front End Engineer:
- You build and support mission-critical production applications and participate in the on-call rotation to ensure reliability and uptime.
- You live and breathe the full product lifecycle, from idea to maturity, and have initiative to continue what works and to fix what doesn't.
- You actively design, architect, implement and test full-stack development over our polyglot tech stack.
- You collaborate on solutions with others, both inside and outside of Engineering.
- You take an analytical but pragmatic approach to problem solving.
- You architect systems for improving scalability and maintainability across our codebase.
- You deliver high-quality software on time.
- You proactively research If you don’t know something.
This is an L3 role. Compensation is between $130,000 - $170,000 DOE.
- Fast-paced environment and growth opportunities - plenty of room for you to directly impact the company and enhance your career!
- Competitive compensation, healthcare benefits, and opportunity for equity
- Other great perks - Full lists of benefits available upon request
Odeko is proud to be a diverse, equitable, and inclusive employer. We encourage all to apply regardless of educational background, race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.
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