Hi I’m Jad and I’m the Founder and CEO at Grepr, Inc. I’m very excited to start growing our team. The company is still only 2 people, and every person we add will make an enormous impact. So we’re looking for the kind of people who want to build not just a product but a whole company.

Being an engineer at a company smaller than 10 people is special. You’ll have a ton of autonomy, be expected to own and build a significant part of the product, and design the product’s growth for the next set of engineers who will be joining us. You’ll wear many hats: developer, designer, product owner, mentor, architect, support engineer, and sales engineer. Our engineers are strongly opinionated people who want to continuously improve the product they’re working on, the team they’re in, the company they’re working at, and the world around them.

Much of our product is still being discovered, but the need is very apparent through tens of conversations with heads of engineering, posts on Twitter and LinkedIn, and the fact that we have a good number of companies who want to sign up as design partners. There’s not much out there about us yet, but we are well funded by investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Boldstart Capital. I’ll share more once we meet.

A couple of formalities: we do require at least 4 years of experience as a full-time software engineer for this role, and the position requires at least three days of in-office presence per week.

The role: Frontend Engineer

Our system is a real-time stream processing application built on top of Apache Flink, running on Kubernetes in AWS. The user-facing application is a Java-based web back-end interacting with a React/Typescript front-end using REST APIs. This application manages all the streaming pipelines on behalf of the user, translating their intents into complex streaming Flink pipelines, and delivering our awesome sauce. It also delivers dashboards and real-time operational visibility through configurable charts to our users. The role would be to own this frontend, deliver an amazing modern user experience to our users from the moment they sign up through the initial steps all the way to getting into production and using our system at scale. Experience with complex data processing and real-time dashboarding applications is important.

The ideal candidate cares deeply about the user experience and wants to work closely with the customers, the back-end developers and the data engineers to deliver an excellent user experience. They have experience with building large scale data and analytical applications. It would be great if they’ve been at an early stage startup before and understand the type of environment it is and are comfortable with its rapidly evolving nature.

Engineering Culture

I believe very strongly that engineering teams work best when everyone is an equally motivated strong contributor to the team, and when egos are dropped and communication and feedback are open and constant. Our motto is “team over self”. We always think, plan, and execute, and we always look back at our successes and failures and try to do better. Our goal is to work smarter, not harder.

Team over self

A significant part of every team member’s role is to help others on the team. We expect managers to be facilitators and team members to collaborate to execute a common vision. Each member of the team is expected to balance their time between upleveling others on the team, unblocking them when they’re blocked, and completing their own work. We’re a kind and welcoming team and we show that through the support we give our members.

Work smarter, not harder

Many of us have families and kids. We want to balance our family lives with our work lives, but we still want to build something great. So we want to maximize our effectiveness at work and make sure that every moment we spend has an impact. We are relentless in our efforts to not waste time and increase focus. We plan our execution, we love prototyping over speculating, we automate whenever we can and the cost is justified, and we don’t follow rules dogmatically.

In-office work

Having worked in both remote and in-person teams, I have found that in-person teams are vastly superior bootstrapping new projects where there’s a ton of iteration and real-time collaboration needed as execution evolves and changes. That’s why our team will be an in-person team with at least 3 days of in-office days per week.

Located at 3043 Misson St, San Francisco CA.

Ownership and accountability

Engineers on the team own our product end-to-end. They are ultimately responsible for the user experience which is at the heart of what we’re doing. So engineers talk to our customers, they help them through their issues, they listen to feedback, and they figure out what we should build next. The flip side of this is that engineers are also accountable for the success of what they build, and they take pride in building the right thing for the user and for the company. This means setting measurable goals and making progress towards those goals, and refining or completely changing course as they learn more about what they’re building.

Interview Process

Our interview process is meant to help us understand who you are, what you’re best at, and what your impact on the team would be. It’s also meant to help you picture yourself working with us and the team, and understand what life at Grepr would look like.

The interview process has three rounds:

• 30-minute intro call with the CEO to learn about you and tell you a bit about what we do and see if this is the right role for you.

• A technical screen which is either an overnight take-home or 60-minute in-person interview.

• Three in-person interviews with members of the team, totaling 3 hours and 30 minutes.

Technology Stack

We’re very early, so this is all still in flux! But at the moment, we’re building using Java on top of Flink for our data processing, Kafka for our queueing, Java for the backend, and React + Typescript for the frontend. Our infrastructure is currently in AWS, running on top of Kubernetes.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and significant equity as one of the first few people on the team.

• Flexible PTO: we really want you to take some time off!

• 90% paid healthcare coverage for employees and their dependents

• Standard 401(k)

Ultimately, a company is the people that form it, and we want to build a place where people will do the best work of their lives. You’ll have a huge impact in helping us figure out all the right pieces to make it an amazing place to work. I hope that makes it as exciting for you as it does for me.

Grepr provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.

Salary Range: $160,000 - $200,000 USD

Compensation Range: $160K - $200K