Your Role
As a Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will build applications that empower the Techstars network. Techstars already has one of the largest portfolios in early stage venture capital, with over 2,300 portfolio companies, a combined market cap of more than $193B, and 12 unicorns (companies valued $1B+). In this role, you will develop frontend and backend components, leverage cloud-based infrastructure, work with open source frameworks and tools, develop integrations with third-party applications, and interface with complex data sources. In doing so, you will shape technical platforms and applications that serve a worldwide community of founders, investors, mentors, and community organizers.
What you will do
- Contribute to the Techstars software platform as a member of an agile product squad
- Deliver enterprise-grade software atop a modern devops infrastructure
- Develop features and functionality for our flagship digital platforms
- Continuously improve our development, deployment, testing, and operational processes
- Maintain software solutions in production and participate in the on-call rotation
Our stack
- Frontend: JavaScript/TypeScript, React.js, and framework-driven CSS
- Backend: JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Contentful
- Infrastructure: IaC approach leveraging K8s, Docker, Kafka, Terraform, and AWS services
What you bring
- Experience delivering modern JavaScript applications in production environments
- Expertise in frontend and/or backend, with a desire to engineer full-stack solutions
- Experience authoring unit tests and integration tests and a keen eye for edge cases
- Strong communication skills and a bias toward collaboration
- Familiarity with relational and non-relational data sources
- Comfort operating in a fully-remote work environment
Compensation range: $110,000 - $125,000 + 10% Bonus
About Techstars
Techstars is the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. Founded in 2006, Techstars began with three simple ideas - entrepreneurs create a better future for everyone, collaboration drives innovation and great ideas can come from anywhere. Now we are on a mission to enable every person on the planet to contribute to, and benefit from, the success of entrepreneurs. In addition to operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, we do this by connecting startups, investors, corporations and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Techstars has invested in more than 2,300 companies with a combined market cap of more than $210B.
Techstars’ mission is to help entrepreneurs succeed wherever they are in the world and whatever their background is. Regional accelerator programs all around the world are the cornerstone of the strategy. The investment approach is fundamentally driven by the worldwide network of managing directors, who interact with startup founders daily, guiding, mentoring and cultivating them along the journey. The scale of this reach results in a diversified strategy that provides investors with a uniquely qualified deal flow.
We help Techstars founders connect with other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporations to grow their companies.
