As a Backend Engineer, you'll build customized solutions, enhance data integration, and automate processes for clients, ensuring timely delivery and robust reporting.
About FORM
FORM powers the world’s 2 billion mobile workers as they change companies and industries for good, with mobile technology that improves execution from the frontline. FORM activates and connects teams in the field – with leaders, missions, and each other – so they can deliver success in the enterprise. The FORM field execution platform serves as a digital assistant for frontline teams by guiding daily tasks, streamlining data collection, facilitating real-time communication, and providing leaders with real-time intelligence to drive faster actions and better decisions. FORM offers the world’s only integrated task management and image recognition platform and enables smart audits on more display types than any solution in the market, plus industry-leading field communications and photo reporting capabilities. FORM solutions have been deployed by Fortune 500 companies around the world.
What You’ll Do
FORM has a very powerful out-of-the-box product, but as a Backend Engineer on our Professional Services team, you’ll build customized solutions for some of our biggest customers. You’ll collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders, leveraging your domain expertise to create seamless integrations and valuable deliverables.
What We’ll Achieve
- Our customers will pull and push complex data from the FORM platform with ease, thanks to your solid engineering efforts.
- The automated processes you create for our stakeholders, both internal and external, will save them countless hours they used to spend aggregating their data.
- Our customers will gain robust, accurate, and timely reporting capabilities to help them better understand their operations and take action.
- We’ll continue to build on our strong customer relationships as we deliver their solutions on time and within scope.
- We’ll bridge the gap from Commercial to Product Teams, engineering-specific revenue-generating solutions such as customized report views, triggered emails, data digestion/reporting, and data ingestion/tables.
- We’ll move from a highly customized set of solutions towards a more clearly defined set of configurable solutions.
- We’ll create many simple, well-designed, effective solutions that have been thoroughly tested.
Who You Are
- You have a minimum of 4 years' experience working on a data-driven, Ruby on Rails stack.
- You have advanced on-the-job experience in Ruby on Rails development, and bonus points if you’ve worked with Go/Golang.
- Preferably, you have worked with PostgreSQL for data manipulation and Kafka or a similar eventing system.
- You have formal training in SQL and are proficient in manual scripting.
- You get your kicks from solving problems, delivering on-time, and innovating on reusable solutions.
- You maintain good engineering practices and encourage others to do the same.
- You have the ability to take complex problems and break them down into smaller, bite-sized issues.
- You strive for excellence. Being good enough isn’t good enough for you!
- You have worked in a smaller environment or in a consulting role, and now how to be resourceful in order to get things done.
- You are a team player, you enjoy being around your peers, you are willing to wear multiple hats (e.g., developer and tester), and see the value of working in a pair programming environment.
- You earned a Bachelor’s degree in CS or completed a coding school program that had a focus in back-end engineering.
What We Offer
- Remote-first work environment.
- Generous medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
- Company-paid life and disability insurance.
- 401(k) retirement plan available.
- Paid parental leave.
- Flexible vacation policy – take the time you need when you need it.
- Company-provided equipment.
- Opportunities for internal growth and career development.
This is a full-time W-2 position. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of standard employment verification (I-9) and background checks. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for sponsorship.
Final candidates located in the United States will be required to undergo a criminal background check through Checkr. Any background check will be conducted in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that those in underrepresented groups, such as women and those in our BIPOC communities, tend to not apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement and qualification. At FORM, we are dedicated to building diverse, inclusive, and an authentic workplace-- So, if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles at FORM!
About FORM
FORM powers the world’s 2 billion mobile workers as they change companies and industries for good, with mobile technology that improves execution from the frontline. FORM activates and connects teams in the field – with leaders, missions, and each other – so they can deliver success in the enterprise. The FORM field execution platform serves as a digital assistant for frontline teams by guiding daily tasks, streamlining data collection, facilitating real-time communication, and providing leaders with real-time intelligence to drive faster actions and better decisions. FORM offers the world’s only integrated task management and image recognition platform and enables smart audits on more display types than any solution in the market, plus industry-leading field communications and photo reporting capabilities. FORM solutions have been deployed by Fortune 500 companies around the world.
OUR SOLUTIONS:
FORM OpX
FORM OpX empowers teams to improve operational compliance by digitizing audits and inspections to reduce risk and improve safety and quality from the frontline. FORM OpX mobile workflows make it easy to capture the right data, at the right place, at the right time – every time. Teams stay connected with instant frontline communications on mobile, and real-time insights allow leaders to spot and fix issues quickly and measure trends over time so teams can take action on the opportunities that move the business forward.
GoSpotCheck by FORM
GoSpotCheck by FORM unleashes the power of field teams to drive market execution with the only mobile solution that combines dynamic task management, industry-leading image recognition, photo reporting, field team communications, and advanced reporting – all within one easy-to-use platform. Guide teams, improve execution, and drive sales while creating a shared view of the field that helps leaders make better decisions, faster. Sell more with GoSpotCheck by FORM, the field execution app that guides, tracks, and improves performance in real-time.
Who We Are
We are innovators: We’re here to free mobile workers from the mundane and open up new worlds of possibility and prosperity, powered by the people.
We are partners: We’re only as successful as our customers. We provide exceptional support, strategic partnership, and personalized account management to ensure they’re successful.
We are problem-solvers: We believe business will help solve the complex challenges facing our planet today. We build products centered on helping them succeed so they can do just that.
We are flexible: We believe in a "Work Your Way" Employment Policy. Employees who can effectively perform their job functions remotely may do so indefinitely.
Humble + hungry. We measure success by how we help customers win. And we've been in the game a long time (in software years). Every interaction gives us the chance to deliver better service and more value. Along the way we've picked up a few awards, and for that, we're thankful.
FORM offers competitive salaries and full benefits for full-time employees and is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer--welcoming all qualified applicants. Applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, or other legally protected status.
Top Skills
Go
Kafka
Postgres
Ruby On Rails
SQL
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