Fullstack Engineer - Javascript
Who we are
HopSkipDrive is a mission driven company with the goal of making life easier for busy parents by taking some of the stress out of their family's busy schedule while also creating an economic opportunity for women. We are a ride service for kids that helps busy families get their kids where they need to go safely and reliably when their parents can’t. We do that by matching families with highly vetted and curated CareDrivers, who are caregivers first and drivers second. All CareDrivers have a minimum of 5 years of childcare experience and must pass a mom-approved, rigorous 15-point certification process, which includes extensive background checks, fingerprinting, DMV checks, reference checks, driver training, and meeting every single driver in person.
We were founded by 3 working moms who have 8 kids between them and who developed HopSkipDrive as a solution to their own problems getting kids where they needed to go. We are a VC-backed company with investment and involvement from nearly every major LA investor including Upfront Ventures, Greycroft and Pritzker. We recently closed a $10.2M Series A led by FirstMark Capital, bringing total funding to $14.1M.
We are based in downtown LA and our growth has exceeded even our own expectations. Our mission, our enormous market potential, our team and the technology challenges we are solving make HopSkipDrive one of LA’s hottest startups and an all-around awesome place to work.
Read more about HopSkipDrive: TechCrunch, New York Times, CNN Money, Greg Bettinelli at Upfront Ventures
Our technology
HopSkipDrive is tackling complex and interesting technical challenges every day. We are building across multiple platforms for multiple user types. Some of our current challenges include using Geographic Information Services (GIS), Big Data and Machine Learning, We use micro services and ephemeral cloud architectures, to rapidly deploy our efforts right into consumers’ hands. We do cool things with data. We scale. We work hard. We have fun, too.
Who you are
We want A+ players who are looking for a challenging and rewarding experience. We are defining a new category in an incredibly fast-moving market. This is not a lifestyle job. This will be the hardest, most demanding, most exhilarating job you will ever have. It will also be the most rewarding.
At HopSkipDrive, we know that to tackle our toughest challenges, we need different approaches, unique perspectives, and new ways of thinking. We are building a team of creative problem-solvers from many different backgrounds.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own projects significantly building and improving our mission critical core systems. You will work closely with the core engineering team, technology leadership, and business stakeholders to build complex, scalable tech solutions. You care deeply about our mission and solving real-world consumer problems. You have a deep sense of pride in your work and feel personal satisfaction in knowing your work is helping make life better for thousands of people every day.
You:
- have an obsessive attention to detail and are not satisfied with “good enough.”
- are entrepreneurial and resourceful. You’ve developed your own side projects to increase your learning and because you were curious about a specific problem you wanted to solve. We can’t wait to see them.
- are constantly thinking about how to make things better and do things differently to solve problems.
- do not understand “9-5” and would never wait until tomorrow to do what could be done today.
- have a deep willingness to learn and want to grow personally and professionally.
- have a strong sense of pride and ownership in your work.
- are an expert software engineer, with at least 5+ years experience and love working in JavaScript.
- have significant experience working with RESTful APIs and third party libraries.
- have significant experience with AWS deployments, scalable architectures, design patterns, and writing great code
What you will get
Every employee has equity and we want you to be an owner in our company and share in executing our vision. In addition, we offer competitive market comp, unlimited vacation, medical and dental and an opportunity to work for a uniquely positioned, VC-backed company in a hugely attractive space with significant upside potential.