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Engineering at Fonoa
- Engineers are given problems to solve, rather than features to build.
- We always try to understand the customer’s needs before thinking about implementation details.
- Engineers are owners of their past, present and future; architecture, tools, coding, testing, deployment, operations and scaling
- We work in lean, small teams. We co-own the product roadmap with product managers
- We chose collaboration, compassion and trust over individualism and politics
- We prefer innovation, constant iteration and trust over competition and perfect solutions.
- We support each other, are kind by nature, and give as much feedback to all improve as professionals.
- We break down complex problems and always seek to find simplest solutions.
- We take quality seriously and factor it into everything we do.
- We are comfortable with change, either in priorities, goals and deadlines. We see this more as an opportunity than a hurdle. We are comfortable with challenging the status quo and pushing for change.
- We seek those looking to make a serious impact, and are excited about working in a high growth startup.
- We ship, fast, continuously, and iteratively, learning on each step.
- We are data informed. And are ok with finding the data when it’s missing.
- For backend, we build in C#, . NET, Node and Go
- For frontend, we use ReactJS and Typescript
- For persistence we are mostly using MongoDB
- We use Azure and GCP for our cloud services
- We manage our infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes CRDs, ArgoCD and DataDog.
“As an engineer, I am following a product through its lifecycle, from ideation to delivery and support which gives a lot of exposure to the technology, and customer needs. This allows me to learn to improve both myself and the product constantly.” –Philip Beel, Engineering Manager
What you will be doing:
- Learn about how painful it is for companies to handle tax manually, and think about how our systems are changing the status quo
- Own what you build, with the ability of deciding how to build it, and the responsibility of operating it in the production environment.
- Build meaningful products with REST API’s that our customers use and depend on for everyday business (finance, operation, tax and developer teams)
- Record and collate lots and lots of data sets from all these operations for long term storage and future insight
- Use every learning and observation to improve our products, constantly
You would be a great fit if:
- You are fully proficient in English. Written and spoken, as we are a bunch from around the world, but we work in English.
- You have a strong sense of ownership, you care about what you build, and that you are building the right thing that serves your customers.
- You’re a builder at heart, you like the opportunity of having tons of exposure, making things work for a company long term, and have an entrepreneurial attitude for anything that comes your way.
- You are either eager to learn, or comfortable scaling and operating large-scale microservices in high-growth environments.
- You are proficient in a couple of languages, most of our current codebase is in nodejs with Typescript and C#, but we are not married to any tools, we see them as a means to an end
- You like to keep your house tidy and clean, and you just can’t leave code not covered with a test. Or a feature undelivered. Or dead code rotting in production.
- You like to use data over opinions to make decisions. And are ok with finding the data yourself when it’s missing.
- You are comfortable with change, either in priorities, goals and deadlines. You see this more as an opportunity than a hurdle. You are also comfortable with challenging the status quo and pushing for change yourself.
Why Fonoa?
- Our typical salary range for this role is between 70-110k € per year, but we certainly don’t want to lose strong talent for financial purposes. If you feel you are a fit, apply.
- Attractive equity to keep you positively incentivized
- 25 days annual leave (plus any local public holidays).
- Top tech gear and flexible budget to build your ideal remote office.
- Bi-weekly lunches paid by Fonoa.
- An unlimited budget for learning is on us. Whether you want to attend a conference, do a course or purchase books or tools, we want to support you as much as we can
- Company offsite 2x per year in attractive locations.
- A book club where you can order any book you would need or like to read
- Weekly fitness sessions with our online trainer
- Remote work and async, work from anywhere in the world.
- Co-working spaces if you want to switch things up.
- Option to meet team members regularly to do creative work and bond in person.
- The best idea wins; we’re all ears when it comes to ways to do things better.
- Frequent visits to virtual Fonoa HQ and our Fonoa island on Mibo.
- Product first culture
- We are backed by leading VC firms who have invested in many successful companies (Index Ventures and Omers Ventures)
- The size of the market and the opportunity we have is massive, and we’re well placed to be disrupting it.
- Flat hierarchy, open, honest, and feedback-driven principles.
Our take on equal opportunities
Our Hiring Process
- Meeting with Recruiting to introduce each other and explore mutual interests.
- Follow up via email to cover other questions in a written manner.
- 1 hour conversation with engineering to get to know each other and see if you would be excited to work together.
- A 30 minute call with our CTO to get to know each other.
- 1 hour conversation with our co-founders.
- Offer
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