Job description
Arkestro’s Predictive Procurement accelerates enterprise spend transformation, using AI and game theory to unlock trapped savings and reduce risk, enabling teams to influence significantly more spend. By combining AI with deep Negotiation Science, Supplier Science, and Process Science procurement teams can improve win-rates while strengthening supply chain agility.
As a fast-growing tech company, we’re looking for builders and innovators — people who thrive in the face of ambiguity and who have a selfless dedication to do whatever it takes to make Arkestro and our customers successful. We believe in egoless execution and we are looking for people who will work together to solve hard problems. If you’re excited to help shape our future, contribute to our company culture, and help to drive our business forward there is a tremendous opportunity for you here at Arkestro! See Arkestro in action at arkestro.com.
About This Role
We’re excited to bring in a Principal Engineer that will help lead Arkestro’s technical evolution and standards, while still contributing to key projects. The right candidate will help drive technology at the platform level – building architecture and applications not only to impact current projects but to set the stage for future business needs.
The Principal Engineer will help guide architecture and standards, mentor engineers, and enable long-term product development with a scalable, maintainable and flexible platform. Responsibilities include designing and implementing systems, optimizing performance, and ensuring high-quality, reliable technology. The right candidate will collaborate with a phenomenal group of software engineers, data scientists, product managers, product designers and quality engineers to deliver and scale a transformational software product.
This is originally a hands-on role, writing code for a majority of time with a gradual transition to strategy.
Responsibilities
- Drive technical innovation and build scalable, maintainable and flexible solutions.
- Lead technical teams through implementation of large projects.
- Architect and design systems for our various applications.
- Autonomously deliver ongoing business impact across a team, product capability, or technical system.
- Assess Arkestro’s business needs, projects, platforms and technologies to shape technical direction.
- Help educate and mentor other developers.
- Work with Product Management and Staff Tech Leads to estimate and commit.
- Implement best practices, methodologies, and tools to optimize the development process and increase efficiency.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders, including senior leadership, to provide updates on project status, risks, and issues.
- Participate in On call rotation
Technologies and tools we use:
- Frontend: React, TypeScript, AntD, Jest + React Testing Library
- Backend: Ruby, Rails, Node, Postgres, Redis, Sidekiq Pro, RSpec
- Fundamentals: Shell, SQL, config file and environment configuration
- Workflow and Deployment: Github, AWS, DataDog, Jira, Confluence, Sentry, Code Climate, Pagerduty Slack, Fellow
Preferred Qualifications
- 15yrs+ building customer-facing applications professionally in collaboration with Product Management, UX and Data
- 10yrs+ of Rails/Ruby
- 6yrs+ React, JavaScript/TypeScript, NextJS, CSS, Figma.
- 6yrs+ of Architecting Full Stack Applications
- 5yrs+ of AWS and/or Kubernetes with Istio
- 5yrs+ Leading technical teams
- Experience working in fast moving environments with on-call rotations and documented SLAs, SLOs, RPOs, and RTOs.
Bonus Qualifications
- 5yrs+ of Python
- Series B and above startup experience
- Use of AI development tools
Pay Range
$200,000—$250,000 USD
Arkestro is committed to providing our employees with a benefits package designed to give you the flexibility you need to ensure a healthy life/work balance. Arkestro offers our employees great benefits and perks, including, but not limited to:
- Competitive salary and startup equity
- Medical, Dental, Vision insurance premiums covered up to 100% (employee only)
- 401K matching
- Unlimited PTO
- A remote-first team with regular opportunities to get together in person for team building, design sprints, and customer visits
- A one time allowance of $1,500 for home office supplies
- Annual budget of $1,000 for learning and professional development
- Diverse, inclusive, highly collaborative, and vibrant culture
Arkestro is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
Disclaimer
Please note this job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described and that additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands. Arkestro reserves the right to change duties, responsibilities and activities at any time with or without notice.
