Staff Software Engineer - Platform

About Crunchbase

Crunchbase helps over 75 million people around the world connect with the companies and people that matter. Powered by best-in-class proprietary data, Crunchbase is democratizing access to opportunities so salespeople, entrepreneurs, investors, job seekers, and others can accelerate innovation for a better future. We’re proud to build intelligent products that shape how companies and people connect and enable them to communicate in a more meaningful way.

We are committed to a positive, diverse, and inclusive culture by hiring for potential, focused on the inclusion of people who have different ways of thinking, different viewpoints, different backgrounds, and different skill sets. We value a transparent and open culture that positively impacts our teams and our products.

Crunchbase has a remote-first approach, and is open to hiring in residents of these states:
California, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Washington

Our inclusive remote-first culture, generous PTO policies, competitive pay, and employee wellness benefits set us apart!

• Architect systems capable of serving as the brains of complex distributed products
• Think in microservices and APIs - develop and expand our ecosystem of composable, reusable, isolated, single-purpose services
• Create highly testable and rock-solid service implementations
• Make important engineering decisions that balance numerous non-engineering factors with technical considerations
• Continuously measure and optimize the performance, effectiveness, and uptime of backend services -- participate in a data-driven culture
• Research, prototype, and implement solutions to thorny big data and scale problems using the best available tools
• Thrive in a rapidly changing environment, continuously working to adapt our process to new circumstances while serving as the bedrock in our culture of mentorship

• 5 years of experience or more with strongly-typed, object-oriented languages, such as Scala, Java, C#, or Kotlin
• Comfortable building applications with functional architectures and mentoring others on best practices
• Working understanding of computer science and software engineering fundamentals
• Motivation to participate in ongoing learning and growth through pair programming, code reviews, application of new technologies, and best practices
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Familiarity with our tools (Scala, Postgres, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus, but not required -- if you know something better, we may use that instead!

What Crunchbase Offers:

• Competitive salary and equity
• Remote first policy
• Generous Reimbursement policy for learning and development activities
• Monthly fitness / mental health stipend
• 14 weeks of fully-paid time off for new parents
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off
• Incredible medical, vision and dental benefits for employees and their families
• 401(k) and Roth plans, and free annual financial adviser check-in
• Monthly internet stipend
• Work from home allowance to purchase furniture for your work from home space
• Annual carbon offset
• Matching charity contributions for our Townhall awards
• A team of creative, transparent entrepreneurs driven to accomplish our mission