Staff Backend Engineer

An inclusive work environment is an empowering one. At Cutover, we lead with empathy and enable others to succeed through curiosity, kindness, and self-expression.

Location: US (East Coast) OR UK. You can choose how often you’ll work from home vs the office - whether you’re fully remote or hybrid.

Cutover has built the world’s first enterprise-wide collaborative automation platform that enables seamless integration of human and machine work flows. Last year, we announced a $35 million Series B financing round led by Eldridge (alongside existing investors Index Ventures, Sussex Place Ventures, and Contour Ventures) and we’re thrilled to be embarking on our next exciting chapters of growth.

We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our Engineering team.

What tech stack do we have here at Cutover?

Our Cutover platform consists of a responsive ReactJS View frontend talking to a Ruby on Rails API, hosted on AWS. Our automated testing is done using Jasmine and Jest (and RSpec for the Backend), with React Testing Library being used for end-to-end testing.

What will you be doing?

• You’ll be hands-on and in the code. We’re still a small team, so all of our leadership roles involve rolling up the sleeves and getting stuck in. 
• You and your team will be lead decision makers on Cutover’s back-end patterns and architecture
• You will closely collaborate & support other engineering squads with any back-end challenges
• You’ll have a voice on the Engineering Leadership Team, working closely with our Director of Engineering, CTO, and CPO on our technology strategy, resource allocation, and hiring plans. You’ll be a trusted lead in the business and we’ll regularly look to you for advice on strategic and tactical matters.
• You’ll collaborate with our broader leadership team and play a key role in creating an engineering community, focused on evangelising the interesting work we’re doing as a team, building relationships with local engineering networks, and ensuring we have a sustainable pipeline of talent in our orbit to help us scale our team with as little friction as possible.

 What we’d like you to bring to the table…

• You're excited about software engineering with 5+ years with Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• You’re excited about bringing extra layers of shine and polish to products; you’re rigorous in the way you test features and you’re committed to making the product you’re building the best it can possibly be (you’ll be someone who aims to build strong relationships with Test Engineers from day one).
• You’re both a mentor and a lifelong-learner at heart: you always have time to chat things through with junior engineers, you want to throw ideas around with your team-mates, and you’re always keen to hear new opinions and up-skill in new technologies.
• You have a track record or interest in technical leadership; you understand what it takes to build a culture of learning, which is both inclusive and motivating.  

The good stuff...

• We're excited to offer Share Options as part of our compensation package.
• 20 days of PTO per year + public holidays, and we want you to take all of them!
• 3 volunteer days to use for any charitable/voluntary cause you would like.
• A top-tier private health insurance package.
• A 401k contribution plan
• Work from home stipends
• A personal learning and development budget through Learnerbly. You’ll be supported in your quest for knowledge, whatever that looks like to you.
• If you’re thinking of starting or growing your family, then you’ll be in great company - more than half of our team are parents and we’ve built a globally consistent parental leave approach that we’re proud of.
• Employee Referral Scheme.
• Safeguarding the mental health of our teams is paramount for us. If you’d like to, then you’ll be able to avail yourself of multiple Cutover mental health initiatives, from fully subsidized therapy sessions to subscriptions to leading wellbeing platforms.
• All the company swag you could ever need. 

Target compensation package: $185,000 - $190,000 base, + stock options + benefits. 

The final offer may vary from the target compensation package, taking into consideration factors such as your experience level and skill set.  If we aren't aligned on salary at this stage, we’d still love to hear from you to better understand if there are more suitable opportunities at Cutover.

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