Firstup

Firstup

Firstup offers an intelligent communication platform designed to engage employees throughout their entire employment journey, providing insights that help organizations support, promote, and retain their workforce effectively.

Professional Services
251-1K
Founded 2008
$47M raised

Description

  • Lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade, customer-facing web applications built on modern microservices architectures.
  • Provide technical leadership through architecture decisions, design reviews, and code reviews to ensure scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
  • Drive adoption of Generative AI tools and coding agents to improve developer productivity, code quality, and innovation.
  • Partner with Product Management and Design to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  • Manage, mentor, and grow a distributed team of software and quality engineers.
  • Own production health for team services, including on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
  • Lead operational excellence efforts to improve observability, resiliency, automation, and alignment with SLOs and enterprise SLAs.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • 3+ years of experience managing and developing engineering teams.
  • Proven experience delivering customer-facing Enterprise SaaS products at scale.
  • Strong hands-on or architectural experience with AWS, including compute, storage, networking, security, and monitoring.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native design, and microservices architectures.
  • Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React.
  • Experience with backend frameworks such as Ruby on Rails or equivalent technologies.
  • Proficiency with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
  • Demonstrated success operating in a production-owned, “you build it, you run it” environment.
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills in cross-functional Agile/Scrum environments.
  • Preferred: experience scaling and evolving Enterprise SaaS platforms through growth or technical transformation.
  • Preferred: demonstrated experience using Generative AI tools and coding agents in software development workflows.
  • Preferred: exposure to HR Tech or other regulated enterprise domains.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $160,000–$200,000.
  • Excellent PTO program.
  • Great health benefits.
  • Remote work.
  • Casual and friendly work environment.
  • Leadership team focused on personal and professional growth.

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