Principal Software Engineer

Gearset

3mo ago

Job
Full-time
Expert Level
Software Engineering
£78K - £100K

AI generated summary

You have experience as a full-stack engineer, driving business impact beyond code, love to learn, write clean testable code, collaborate with teams, work directly with users, and prioritize customer value over process. Familiarity with C#/.NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, agile development, and cloud hosting a plus.
You will collaborate with the team to maintain and create new software features, engage with users for feedback, and contribute to product strategy for business impact.

Requirements

Have previous experience as a full-stack engineer, including experience working directly with customers
Have created a positive business impact outside of writing code. To us this could look like leading a team, driving the rollout of a new technology or owning the development of a major feature
Love to learn and improve, and you're comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback to make your work even better
Want to build a quality product that’s loved and depended on by its users
Write well-structured, testable code, with a focus on simplicity and maintainability
Enjoy working across departments with a diverse team
Are enthusiastic about working directly with users to build and deliver the right features
Approach your work with pragmatism, prioritising iteration and delivering value to customers, over process and deliberation
Great to haves:
Familiarity with C#/.NET, JavaScript/TypeScript and React.
Or expertise with an OOP language (eg. Java / C++) and another modern JS framework (eg. Angular / Vue.js)
Expertise of working on a distributed, cloud hosted product with rapid release cycles
Experience working in an agile development team, where you’ve delivered incremental small slices, and are comfortable with pivoting to meet user needs

Responsibilities

Maintain and extend existing features, and collaborate with the rest of the development team to spec, design and build new features end-to-end.
Learn from, and share your experience with, a great team from a wide range of backgrounds in a feedback driven culture where you can do your best work.
Work closely with users, delighting them with support, researching new features and gaining feedback to drive new ideas and ways to improve.
Contribute opinions on a range of topics, from development practices to product strategy and roadmap, to impact business decisions.

FAQs

What is the tech stack used in this role?

Our tech stack includes a mix of cutting-edge and proven technologies, such as C#, React, TypeScript, Postgres, AWS, and Docker.

How often is Gearset released?

We release Gearset multiple times a day, and can switch back quickly to the previous release if we find an issue.

What kind of freedom do engineers have in solving problems?

Our small teams have responsibility for product goals, not building specific features, giving engineers the freedom to decide the tactics they use to solve the root causes of problems.

How does the team gather feedback for their work?

A great team communicates directly with customers and partners, ensuring they have the context and feedback needed to solve the most pressing problems in the most effective way.

Gearset

The complete DevOps solution for every Salesforce team.

Technology

Industry

51-200

Employees

2015

Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Gearset is the only platform you need for unparalleled Salesforce deployment success, continuous delivery, automated testing and backups. Gearset is the complete Salesforce DevOps solution for Admins, Developers, Architects, and Release Managers building on Salesforce. Accelerate project delivery and improve collaboration with: - Metadata deployments - Fully integrated backup and restore - Data deployments and compliance - Continuous integration and version control - Automated release pipeline - Change monitoring and testing Built on a deep understanding of your Salesforce data and metadata relationships, Gearset is the only solution designed to fully integrate DevOps into your release pipeline. Founded in 2015 by DevOps experts, Gearset is designed to help every Salesforce team apply DevOps best practices to their development and release process, so they can rapidly and securely deliver higher-quality projects. With inbuilt intelligence that solves the fundamental challenges of Salesforce DevOps, Gearset is a uniquely reliable solution trusted by more than 1000 companies, including McKesson, Accenture and IBM.