Senior Software Engineer (backend)

Founded in 2018 in Dublin, Tines is a smart, secure workflow platform designed to automate any manual task, regardless of complexity. By automating workflows, Tines empowers frontline teams to reduce monotonous, manual work and free up valuable time and resources.

Tines is an integrator across your entire stack - if it offers an API, Tines connects with it. Having firmly established Tines as the de-facto automation platform for cybersecurity teams, we’re expanding horizontally to IT, Product, Engineering, and Infrastructure teams. Tines was built for everyone, delivering transformative and innovative enterprise software to industry leaders like Canva, Intercom, Databricks, Mars and Reddit.

We’re excited about what we’re doing and what’s to come, and we’re looking for others who can lead by our values of Simplicity, Speed, and Soundness. Because Tines is about delivering exceptional customer experiences, while creating a company culture that nurtures individual curiosity, growth, and integrity.

You’ll join the team primarily responsible for scaling the throughput and performance of the core, backend job processing engine at Tines. However, since we’re still a small but growing software engineering organization, this role is not strictly limited to any single part of our product or stack.

This role is about more than writing code: you'll have an influential voice in shaping our technical direction, our product, and our culture. We have a hugely supportive and collaborative engineering team that takes great pride in the work we do and the challenges we solve. We’re eager to help grow and nurture each other’s abilities and also create an environment where we have the ability to do our very best work.

Location:

You can work fully remotely from anywhere in an EST state with a preference for being based in the Greater Boston Area area. Here, you can make use of our Tines office space in downtown Boston to meet up with other members of the MA engineering team when you wish.

In this role, you’ll:

• Work closely with colleagues to build the right solutions to the problems our customers face.
• Make valuable changes in our codebase in your first week, and see them live in production minutes after merging them.
• Shape how workflow execution happens at the very heart of our system, to help us power the world’s most important workflows.
• Write and review high quality, well tested code to ensure that we’re creating a stable product for our customers, and a stress-free codebase for ourselves.
• Identify areas for improvement, both in our codebase and in how we work, and share the responsibility of making our team better.
• Own the problems you’re solving - and the software you write to solve them - all the way to production and beyond, responding to customer feedback to improve those solutions.
• Use your knowledge to mentor other engineers in our team, providing support and guidance to help them grow their abilities.

Projects you might work on:

• Improve action throughput to meet our growing customers’ scale.
• Create internal and customer facing controls that allow Tines and our customers to configure job prioritization levels, ensuring the most critical workflows are executed in a timely manner. 
• Optimize the storage and search of customers’ event data.
• Ensure jobs are executed in a balanced and fair manner, particularly on multitenant stacks. 
• Enhance Tines' observability by introducing new features that empower customers to monitor the status and latency of their workflows and receive proactive alerts about potential issues.
• Write a blog post to share something interesting we learned with the community.

Is this role right for you?

• Roughly 6+ years as a professional software engineer. Proven track record of success as a senior software engineer. This is a senior role and we’re looking for candidates with a well of experience to draw from.
• You’ll need direct experience of building and delivering software using a high-level programming language. Our interview process includes a Byteboard exercise which involves adding features to a small command-line app, so you should feel very comfortable working at that level of technical complexity. You can use a language you’re comfortable with to complete the coding