Company Overview
HarperDB is a high-performance distributed application platform. It combines a database, in-memory cache, and real-time message broker to allow users to create enterprise-grade solutions with fewer moving parts, fewer lines of code, and a superior developer experience
We’ve achieved product market fit. We’ve identified our ICP. We’ve landed our Series A (from one of the most respected investment firms in the world). Now we’re looking for passionate, experienced teammates to help us accelerate our growth, evolve our platform, and focus relentlessly on making our customers’ lives better.
Job Description:
We’re seeking a full-stack Developer Experience Engineer to design, build, and maintain our customer-facing tooling and management systems. You’ll leverage your experience solving hard problems to make it easy for our customers to solve theirs. You’ll own our web-based management system, HarperDB Studio, our evolving library of turn-key template projects, and our array of easy-to-use SDKs, ensuring that our users are never more than a few clicks away from success. Your efforts will play a key role in delivering on our core promise: Simplicity Without Sacrifice.
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include designing and building new features, resolving user experience issues, and generally ensuring that our highly-technical platform is a joy to use.
About HarperDB Studio:
HarperDB Studio is the web-based management suite for HarperDB, allowing for the administration, navigation, and monitoring of HarperDB instances. Users can manage both cloud and privately hosted HarperDB instances via the Studio, which can also be run offline/locally from within HarperDB itself. It performs all database interactions through HarperDB’s Operations API, ensuring secure and efficient management of your instances.
Responsibilities:
- Architect, design, build, and deploy the Studio’s front end, both online and as part of the core product.
- Develop and deploy the corresponding back-end APIs that power the Studio, handling instance registration, licensing, and payment integrations.
- Organize, enhance, and add to our open-source repository of application templates and SDKs, ensuring our customers see the value of our platform from minute one.
- Monitor, manage, and respond to customer experience challenges across your product portfolio.
- Identify, scope, and develop new features and templates based on feedback from customers, performance metrics, marketing initiatives, or your own vision of how to deliver an awesome developer experience.
- Enhance the performance, scalability, and usability of HarperDB Studio.
- Implement new authentication strategies, admin interfaces, and back-end tooling to ensure your product portfolio remains aligned with updates to HarperDB core.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience as a full stack engineer or similar role focused on user interface development and back-end web services
- Expert Front-end: React, State Management, TanStack, Canvas, CSS/Bootstrap
- Expert Back-end: Node.js, AWS Lambda, Stripe, Terraform, AuthN/Z
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and communicate complex technical concepts clearly.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Knowledge of HarperDB
- Experience with UI/UX design principles and tools.
- Experience building/managing an enterprise-grade SaaS management platform
Why Join Us:
- Opportunity to be part of a high-growth startup with a collaborative and supportive team culture.
- Flexible work environment with remote work options and a focus on work-life balance.
- Competitive compensation package including base salary, commission, and benefits.
- Room for career advancement and professional development opportunities.
If you are a motivated self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment and shares our values of transparency, authenticity, and empowerment, we want to hear from you!
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What We Do
HarperDB is a globally-distributed edge application platform. It reduces complexity, increases performance, and lowers costs by combining user-defined applications, a high-performance database, and an enterprise-grade streaming broker into a single package. The platform offers unlimited horizontal scale at the click of a button, and synchronizes data across all the nodes in a cluster in milliseconds. HarperDB simplifies the process of delivering applications and the data that drives them to the edge, which dramatically improves both the user experience and total cost of ownership for large-scale applications. Deploying HarperDB on global infrastructure enables a CDN-like solution for enterprise data and applications.
HarperDB is partnered with global companies like Akamai, Verizon, AWS, and Lumen to bring a complete solution to the market. Their customers include massive gaming companies, global retailers, digital advertising innovators, and more.
HarperDB has over 130K deployments and 15K community members. Their leadership has a deep and diverse background in solving complex tech challenges for organizations from startups up to Fortune 100 companies and beyond. HarperDB has achieved RedHat certification on OpenShift, and is deployable anywhere, including Linode, DigitalOcean Marketplace, hyper-scaler clouds, and more.
HarperDB has been awarded Best Small Companies to Work For by BuiltIn, Top Edge Computing Companies to Watch, Startup of the Year by Hackernoon. Within the last year, our CEO has been awarded the Ethical Leader of the Year by the University of Colorado and was recognized as a Titan 100 for the Colorado Titan 100 Awards.
Why Work With Us
HarperDB is an innovation-motivated company that solves the most complex problems facing technology at scale. Leading with transparency and radical authenticity, employees receive specific and timely feedback driving rapid career growth and a strong sense of ownership. At HarperDB, we build people up to realize their full potential.
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