Senior Software Engineer

Quartzy is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with Full Stack web application development experience. In this role, you’ll be a member of a product development team who builds and maintains modern software applications for our internal and external customers. Our platform consists of two primary capabilities: a SaaS based inventory management and procurement platform and an e-commerce shop for laboratory supplies.

Quartzy is a 100% distributed team so this role can be done anywhere in the US. 

About You

You are an experienced Engineer that has worked professionally in a team-based engineering environment building web applications.  You have a collaborative mindset, are passionate about growing your technology skills, and are open to learning new problem solving approaches from your team members to achieve business outcomes. Most of all, you are a builder and a problem solver at heart, and you seek to develop thoughtful solutions that will delight our customers. 

Why Quartzy

Quartzy is the world’s #1 lab management platform. Every day, hundreds of thousands of scientists from all over the world improve the efficiency of their research by using Quartzy. Our software combines lab resource management and eCommerce, producing unique value in this large market, returning time to researchers who can focus on their next discoveries. Our customers range from wine makers, to food/ag companies, to companies working on diagnosing new infectious diseases and new cancer therapies. We are humbled every day to serve them. 

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, and designers deliver value to our customers
• Work closely with your team to design and develop robust, high-quality, and scalable solutions, providing technical work direction to other team members, as needed
• Own the technical implementation, architecture, and support for key areas of the Quartzy platform
• Create and participate in other’s code reviews to ensure code quality and shared knowledge
• Write well-tested code that is resilient to heavy iteration
• Participate in knowledge sharing opportunities and contribute to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the team

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years experience developing web applications in a production environment at scale
• Collaborative experience providing technical work breakdown and direction to other Engineers
• Broad experience with our technology stack (or similar technologies): PHP, GraphQL, MySQL, Ember, React, Next.js, React Native, Laravel, Eloquent, Elasticsearch, Redis, Beanstalkd, RabbitMQ 
• Familiarity with asynchronous worker queues
• Experience writing automated tests and working in a CI/CD environment
• A mentor that can teach best practices to other software engineers
• An entrepreneurial attitude that enables you to get high-quality projects done quickly
• Start up experience is helpful
• A strong communicator. You write well and can easily explain complex technical concepts to non-technical people.

Quartzy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. As part of this policy and legal compliance, Quartzy will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant or an employee unless undue hardship would result. Quartzy will also accommodate a religious belief or practice (including religious dress and grooming practices, such as religious clothing or hairstyles) if the accommodation is reasonable and will not impose an undue hardship.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Quartzy, Inc. will comply with any and all applicable local, city, county, state and federal laws, regulations and orders now in effect or which may hereafter be enacted.