Who You Are

You have Heart for Service

We provide extraordinary service to our customers, coworkers, and our community by going out of our way to appreciate and support them.

You are Curious

We create products that help our customers listen and be curious, and we ourselves are curious. We strive to understand our customers’ business problems and the solutions delivered with our software.

You Find a Way

We help our customers and employees succeed by finding solutions to their problems. We have a can-do attitude and we do what we say we will do. 

About Alchemer

Founded in 2006, Alchemer is a powerful survey and data insights platform that empowers business professionals to make informed decisions. As SaaS application software, it offers user-friendly data collection tools for understanding customers, markets, and employees in real time and communicating this information across an organization. It provides data insights in over 205 countries, with 50K new surveys created and 5M responses collected every week.

Alchemer has tremendous opportunity to continue this growth, based on current market size and the potential for more sophisticated product positioning and a robust sales and marketing engine. Details on Alchemer’s products and services can be found on our website (www.Alchemer.com).

What You Will Do 

A technical leader and mentor for the development team who focusses on the team’s success and technical product improvements.  

How You Will Spend Your Days

• Help train and onboard new team members 
• Manage and mentor existing team members 
• Provide / facilitate code review for high risk changes 
• Help coordinate & facilitate team meetings (standups, kickoffs, retrospectives) 
• Remove / resolve blocking issues for team 
• Track team KPIs (eg; velocity, defect rates) and work to improve KPI
• Develop, test, and contribute improvements to applicatio
• Help to triage and debug escalated issues
• Active involvement in architectural planning & improvement 
• Track, coordinate, and help prioritize work within the software development lifecycle 
• Seek out and advocate for reduction of technical debt, refactoring opportunities, performance optimizations, re-architecting opportunities 
• Continue to improve systems, processes and documentation for the team  

What You Bring to this Role

• 3-5 years experience developing and maintaining a modern SaaS application.  
• Experience with modern frameworks, technology, coding practices (Larvel/Lumen php, VueJS, microservices, UI components, SCSS, etc)  
• 1+ years leading a team of software developers  
• Experience with test driven development, unit testing, automated testing, etc.  
• Experience with AWS is a plus  
• Relational & non-relational databases experience is a plus  
• Strong organization skills  
• Strong ability to listen and discuss current challenges & opportunities with customers and  
• Ability to translate product requirements into technical requiremnets  
• Provide ability to manage engineering team to meet key milestones while achieving quality and usability requirements.  
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills.  
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, statistics, economics, psychology, physics, or similar field. Advanced degree preferred.  
• Team player with demonstrated communication skills. Comfortable leading meetings and presenting in front of groups of colleagues, partners or customers.  
• Experience working as engineering manager / leader for SaaS product offerings.  
• You relish the opportunity to meet with customers and prospects to gather requirements and introduce features.  
• Proven ability to thrive under tight deadlines while successfully juggling a multitude of projects simultaneously.  
• Extreme level of energy, highly self-motivated, and a passion for success.  
• Experience with Agile methodologies is required.  
• Effective listener that can get to the root of customer problems/needs.  

Compensation for this position includes an annual base salary between $130,000 and $150,000, and participation in the Founder’s Pool program.

Alchemer provides a rich benefits package that includes health and disability coverages, an incredible 401(k) option that includes a per-payroll match and immediate vesting, unlimited time off and eleven paid company holidays.

Alchemer is taking applications for this position from candidates who are legally authorized to work in the US and do not require now, or in the future, immigration sponsorship for work authorization.

At Alchemer, we're committed to attracting, developing, and promoting a diverse workforce, and infusing DEI throughout all of our internal practices. By ensuring that everyone is able to bring a diversity of talents to work, we're increasingly capable of living out our mission in helping our clients. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds and all walks of life to apply. 

In our beautiful new Colorado headquarters, we are actively returning to an in-office presence and as we do so, the health and safety of our team members and customers is our top priority. As part of our return-to-office and recruiting processes, we are requiring vaccination status of our employees and candidates.