Senior Software Engineer

Gearset

3mo ago

Job
Full-time
Senior Level
Software Engineering
£59K - £78K
Belfast

AI generated summary

You should have full-stack engineering experience, love to learn and collaborate, write high-quality code, work well in a team, engage directly with users, prioritize iteration over process, and ideally have experience with C#/.NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, or OOP languages and modern JS frameworks.
You'll collaborate with the team to develop and enhance software features, contribute to project progress, engage with users for feedback, and provide input on development practices and product strategy.

Requirements

Have solid experience as a full-stack engineer, including experience working directly with customers
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)
Experience with leading a team or project
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

As a more senior member of your team, you’ll maintain and extend existing features, but also contribute beyond your individual work by collaborating with the rest of the development team to spec, design, and build new features.
Working closely with the Team Lead, you’ll keep an eye on project progress whilst learning from, and sharing 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 technologies are used in the tech stack for 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 does Gearset release updates?

We release Gearset multiple times a day, allowing for quick iteration and the ability to switch back to a previous release if an issue is found.

Will I have the opportunity to directly interact with customers and partners?

Yes, engineers work across the business and talk directly to customers and partners to ensure that we are solving the most pressing problems in the most effective way.

How much autonomy do I have in solving problems and deciding tactics?

Our small teams have responsibility for product goals, not building specific features, which means you will have the freedom to decide the tactics you use to solve the root causes.

What is the approach to feedback and communication within the team?

A great team does their best work with context and feedback, which is why we emphasize direct communication with impacted parties and stakeholders to ensure we are solving problems effectively.

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.