JourneyApps is looking for a senior software engineer to join our agile and cutting-edge engineering team. JourneyApps products are built on-top of a world-class, highly scalable, highly available microservice architecture, and we are looking for experienced engineers that have strong skills in these areas. The JourneyApps infrastructure serves as a multi-product foundation, and two products are currently running on it: JourneyApps Platform and PowerSync.

The ideal candidate should have extensive experience deploying and managing modern tech stacks and be comfortable working in a highly versatile agile-based team (agile as in agilemanifesto.org, not the commercialized corporate definition of agile). A big part of working at JourneyApps involves owning projects, championing the adoption and integration of new technologies, and being flexible and adaptable as our products evolve.

Technologies experience/skills required:

Candidates should be experts in:

• TypeScript
• About 80% of stack is Node based.
• Advanced build systems (tsc/Webpack/Babel), project references, generics.
• Kubernetes (broad)
• Need experience across the entire Kubernetes ecosystem and how various components in the ecosystem work and fit together
• Ability to architect, provision and manage workloads running on Kubernetes infrastructure
• Docker
• Best practices for building, running and maintaining containers
• Kafka
• Understanding of Kafka primitives (partitions, topics, producers, consumers)
• Understanding of event-streaming and its application within a system (notification events vs event sourcing; when to use what)
• MongoDB
• We use a mix of self-hosted and Atlas
• Monitoring, replication, oplog, audits, caching
• Transactions
• Performance tuning
• Cloud computing - AWS & Azure
• Working with networking policies, security groups, routing
• Working with cloud compute (VMs, Lambda, ECS)
• IAM security best practices
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Terraform, Pulumi, etc.
• Networking experience (broad)
• VPC, security groups, isolation
• SSL
• Experience with distributed systems
• Streaming, back pressure
• Distributed data sets, isolation of data, isolation of concerns
• Good inter-service communication practices

Nice-to-have skills:

• Ruby
• Required now and then for legacy services
• Mongoid, Resque

Working conditions and working environment:

• Fully remote-first team
• Engineers in South Africa (Cape Town)
• Engineers in US (Denver, Colorado)
• Engineers in Germany (Frankfurt)
• Offices in Stellenbosch and Denver
• Flexible working hours
• Output-driven; we favor people and output over process
• Iterative-based approach to software development: ship and learn quickly
• In-person company events every month (meetups, lunch, activities)
• Most engineers work on Mac or Linux

How to apply

Email us at join@journeyapps.com