Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

Button’s mission is to empower the companies shaping the creator and affiliate economy - fueling mobile growth with innovation and new paths to monetization. Today, we work with some of the largest and most interesting businesses in the world to connect shoppers, creators, and retailers with what they love at the tap of a button. We build with the consumer experience in mind, have a reputation for paving the future of mobile, and have a good time doing it.

As a Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack, you’ll design and build the services, APIs, frameworks, and UIs that power Button’s core products. Our systems sit at the foundation of commerce experiences used by millions of users, and our front-end platforms enable both partners and internal teams to activate and understand those experiences.

You will lead the development of new user interfaces and full-stack features that advance our ambitious product goals. You’ll work across modern web technologies, with a strong emphasis on React and TypeScript, and partner with backend engineers to deliver fast, intuitive, and reliable user-facing applications. You’ll be a key contributor to shaping our engineering and technical culture, driving design reviews, and mentoring members of our team.

Our Engineering team values a fast-moving and high-trust environment that affords each member the opportunity to develop expertise operating full-stack systems at scale. You’ll compose solutions from a broad range of technologies, including React, TypeScript, Go, NodeJS, Docker, and AWS ECS. You’ll also move fast; we ship changes to production dozens of times each day.

• Develop intuitive, performant user interfaces using React and TypeScript, alongside scalable APIs and backend services.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop new features within our core platforms. You will work with product managers to translate user and partner requirements into technical designs, and with other Engineers to bring those designs to life with an emphasis on usability, performance, and maintainability.
• Contribute to the design of backend services and data models that support our applications, working with technologies including NodeJS, Go, SQS/SNS, and BigQuery.
• Deliver the full-stack functionality that enables Button’s largest partners to launch and monitor commerce programs.
• Maintain a “mystery-free” production environment and keep the pagers quiet by implementing excellent monitoring, anticipating and planning for the unexpected.

• A passion for building exceptional user experiences using React and TypeScript, and the curiosity to work across the stack to deliver cohesive solutions.
• Comfort operating across the entire stack of a product, including building UIs, APIs, backend systems, and designing database schemas that support our products.
• A strong understanding of web development fundamentals, including component architecture, state management, accessibility, and performance.
• An excellent understanding of API design, and experience designing reliable interfaces for use across systems and teams.
• Experience coding in JavaScript/TypeScript (React, NodeJS), with additional experience in Go or Python a plus.
• Experience and comfort in a production environment. You’ll be working in a “magic-free” service-oriented environment, using AWS ECS, Docker, and modern observability tooling.

• 4+ years of experience writing software and building production systems
• 2+ years of experience designing systems and front-end architectures
• Experience providing mentorship and guidance to peers, including but not limited to code reviews, training, and feedback
• Experience building, operating, and maintaining large-scale production SaaS applications
• Experience with full-stack development using Java/Go, TypeScript and React
• Experience working with relational databases
• Experience with backend infrastructure and cloud services a plus

Button provides employees with a RemotePlus workplace, which blends “work from anywhere” with in-person collaboration. Button has a “hub” workspace in New York City as well as team members distributed across the United States and beyond. The salary range for this role in the United States is expected to be between $153,000 and $198,000 (offered salary is based on a number of factors including skills and experience relative to the job description listed above).

In addition, Button provides employees with a 401(k) plan and automatically contributes 3% of an employee’s salary annually. We also want our employees to be well-rested and live balanced lives–Buttonians enjoy unlimited time off (including birthdays off) and periodic Mental Health Weeks which allow the entire company to take a breath and recharge, as well as an employee assistance program. For many of the health, vision, and dental insurance plans offered by Button, the company covers 100% of the premiums for employees and 75% for dependents. Button offers all employees and their dependents complimentary memberships to One Medical as well as a monthly stipend for mobile phone/internet and an annual lifestyle stipend. Button also offers employees in select markets “All Access” memberships to WeWork as well as regular “coworking days” and social events. Most of all, Button offers our employees the opportunity to live our company values–Grow & Learn, Experiment, Adapt, and Deliver–and to be a part of an incredible team of humans working together to build a better internet, fueled by commerce.

Button is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

Button is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation.