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Description
Superset for Software Engineering
in Product
Do you love the power of the internet to create seamless communication, but get frustrated by its current limitations? Are you passionate about helping people, and building community?
At Minerva, we are making process knowledge and expertise instantly accessible wherever you need it, right as you need it, built entirely around a community of creators and collaborators.
We take each of our core values seriously, because if we break them, we break the company:
Accessibility
Community
Elegance
Trustworthiness
Service
Vision
The person driving initiatives for Product should be able to effectively balance delivering immediate value to end users and doing things in a deliberate way, e.g., identifying quick paths forward. Additionally, the person believes that releasing often and iterating is always better than perfection.
Superset Summary
At Minerva, we think of every person’s contribution as a set of roles that they play. The collection of those roles that forms one person’s responsibilities is a ‘superset’. (Side note: the whole collection of roles within Minerva, we refer to as the ‘pantheon’).
In order to support our efforts in engineering, we have assembled this superset, below.
Note: As a new company, we are constantly adapting our responsibilities to the shifting needs of the organization. Likewise, we want all of our team members to have a clear career path within the organization, so responsibilities are fluid.
Superset of Roles
Roles
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Sprint Cluster
Own extension development
ENG
Craig, ENG LEAD
ENG
Craig, Rafael
Product
Own SDK development
ENG
Craig, ENG LEAD
ENG
Craig, Rafael
Product
Own mobile development
ENG
Craig, ENG LEAD
ENG
Craig, Rafael
Product
Own web development
ENG
ENG LEAD
ENG
Craig, Rafael
Product
Own end-user engineering
ENG
ENG LEAD
ENG
Rafael
Engineering
Contribute to API backends
ENG
ENG LEAD
ENG
Rafael
Engineering
Own API architecture
ENG
ENG LEAD
ENG
Rafael
Engineering
Cultivate and expand knowledge sharing
ENG
ENG LEAD
ENG
ENG LEAD
Rafael
Engineering
Prerequisites
4+ years of software engineering experience building web applications at scale
2+ years experience with at least one interpreted language and one compiled language (we write in Javascript, Typescript, Go, and Python)
Working experience with building UIs with component-based frameworks (we use Vue)
Bonus points for experience with key-value stores (MongoDB, Memcache, Redis)
Key Performance Indicators
To be discussed
Requirements
About You
You take pride in writing readable, well-designed software. You prefer simple solutions over complex ones.
You’re interested in new technologies and tools, but understand the rationale for choosing mature, older tech. You believe in using the right tool for the job.
You’re comfortable building and scaling systems in a fast-evolving product. You are driven to improve performance, enhance code quality, and establish best practices for your team.
You have a proven ability to get up to speed quickly. You are a team player and will learn whatever new skills or tools needed to get the job done.
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San Francisco, USA