Software Engineer II

About Invoca

Commitment to our customers, collaboration, and continuous improvement in a positive environment are more than words written on a wall at Invoca, it’s our way of life. We take pride in an inclusive and egoless culture that helps us drive innovation and build value for both our customers and our people. And of course, there’s the competitive pay, great perks, and getting to work on an industry-leading product. If this sounds unlike most tech jobs you’ve had, you’re right. Come join us. We’re building something special.

We have proudly been recognized by INC Magazine with the Best Workplaces award two years in a row! Read more about this achievement and what makes us special here: https://www.invoca.com/press/invoca-recognized-as-an-inc-magazine-best-workplace-for-the-second-consecutive-year/

About the Engineering Team

You’ll join a team where everyone, including you, is striving to constantly improve their knowledge of software development tools, practices, and processes. We are an incredibly supportive team. We swarm when problems arise and give great feedback to help each other grow. Working on our close-knit, cross-functional teams is a great chance to share and grow your knowledge of different domains from databases to front ends to telephony and everything in between.

We are passionate about many things: continuous improvement, working at a brisk but sustainable pace, writing resilient code, maintaining production reliability, paying down technical debt, hiring fantastic teammates; and we love to share these passions with each other.

Learn more about the Invoca development team on our blog at blog and check out our open source projects at open source projects.

About You and About the Role

We are excited about you because you have/can do the following things that we do at this role at Invoca:

• Can independently own small-to-medium features from technical design to launch.
• Is capable of defining, breaking down, and prioritizing work in partnership with a team.
• Constantly making steady progress on tasks that are assigned to them. Should be focused on learning how to set a high quality bar without sacrificing productivity.
• Thinks about scalability, testability, supportability, observability, and maintainability when approaching a task, and can write code which incorporates these principles with feedback and guidance from more senior engineers
• Can usually diagnose production issues on their own, but requires verification by other team members, and help in suggesting how to solve the issue. Ticket writeups are often actionable, but may still require editing. Communication within the team is good, but outside communication usually requires assistance.
• Learns new skills quickly and makes significant progress on tasks without the need for constant feedback.
• Communicates well and is capable of gracefully delivering feedback to peers and managers.
• Builds effective and collaborative working relationships with a team.
• Experience with some of our core technologies: Ruby + Rails (or similar), MySQL/PostgreSQL, and HTML/CSS/JavaScript
• Support diversity, equity and inclusion at Invoca

About Diversity and Inclusion

“Our company is committed to creating a culture that is not only grounded in continuous learning, teamwork, and customer success, but is fair, equitable, and welcoming for everyone.” Gregg Johnson CEO

And to us, diversity and inclusion means even more than treating current employees well and making them feel welcome. It also means proactively hiring people who bring different insights because of their unique demographics, ways of thinking, and prior experiences.

We intend to continue hiring great people and protecting our culture so everyone can be themselves and speak their minds. That way Invoca will always be a place filled with laughter, energy, hard work, thoughtfulness and respect.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Salary, Benefits and Perks:

Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our offerings:

• Paid Time Off - Invoca encourages a work-life balance for our employees. We have an outstanding PTO policy, starting at 20 days off, for all full-time employees. We als