Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the product from start to finish, encompassing data model, API, UI, UX, deployment, and ongoing iterations.

• Develop and expand VALIS’s latest product line, starting from a blank slate to implementation on the plant floor.

• Collaborate with operators and plant managers to gain insights into workflows and user requirements.

• Create a multi-tenant domain model that includes materials, loads, runs, equipment, and quality aspects.

• Construct efficient, reliable, validated data-entry workflows tailored for the plant floor.

• Produce insights dashboards that managers can utilize during each shift.

• Conduct weekly meetings with operators and facility managers, including on-site assessments, and translate observations into product strategies.

• Integrate new data sources with VALIS data and customer systems, such as ERP exports, scales, and plant controls.

• Develop and implement proactive features to highlight trends in production and quality data, identify anomalies, and alert the relevant personnel.

• Make informed architecture and design choices.

• Prioritize product development initiatives.

• Work closely with the CTO, product team, business team, and end users.

• Create software that assists scrap processors in managing their plant operations.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of professional software engineering experience; senior candidates should possess over 5 years with a track record of leading technical projects.

• Proficiency in designing clean, normalized schemas from complex real-world processes and the ability to justify tradeoff decisions.

• Capability to utilize types, establish clear boundaries, and employ domain language to ensure that incorrect states are difficult to represent.

• Experience in owning ambiguous problems from inception to resolution and solving them independently.

• Strong expertise across databases, backend APIs, and frontend fundamentals.

• Solid foundation in mathematics, quantitative analysis, and statistics.

• Ability to work swiftly, prioritize tasks effectively, and interact with customers.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, catering to both technical and non-technical team members.

• Must possess authorization to work full-time in the US.

• Availability to overlap with East Coast business hours, approximately 9am to 5pm ET.

• Familiarity with React, TypeScript, C#/.NET, PostgreSQL, and AWS is an advantage.

• Experience in metals or materials recycling, or other heavy industries, is a plus.

• Background in developing ERP, MES, inventory, logistics, or operations software is beneficial.

• Experience with multi-tenant B2B SaaS applications is a bonus.

• Familiarity with plant or device data, including scales, PLCs, SCADA, MQTT, or ERP integrations, is advantageous.

• Completion of the hiring process, which includes a technical deep dive, live design exercise, team/founder discussions, reference checks, and a background check, is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Significant equity through our employee stock option plan.

• 401(k) plan with employer matching.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Sick leave provisions.

• Guaranteed personal time off.

• Observance of public holidays.

• Flexible remote work options from anywhere in the US.

• Occasional travel for customer site visits and company gatherings.

• Opportunities for professional and technical growth.

• Participation in the employee stock option plan.