Sr. Software Developer

About the Team

TEECOMlabs is an in-house research group dedicated to testing, developing, and recommending technology that will inform TEECOM's design and engineering solutions.

We’re a close-knit group that enjoys working together to solve interesting challenges. With a focus on learning and growth, our team works hard to better ourselves and explore opportunities for experimentation in the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) field.

We like to keep ourselves happy while we work. Here at TEECOM, we value a healthy work/life balance. We do our best to ensure that every team member has the resources they need to pursue their professional and personal improvement. Investment time, conference budgets, and optional growth planning with your manager and the CEO are just a few of the ways in which we foster career development.

Our team works in a relaxed and education-oriented environment to develop novel solutions to industry-specific problems. We work a sustainable pace of 40 flexible hours a week. Everything we do is predicated on having a great team with a culture of kindness, growth, and learning.

About the Position

We are looking for a mid-career software developer to join our team of five. In this role, you will primarily work on tools, processes, and abstractions that alter the foundational workflows of the AEC industry. Specifically, your primary project will be advancing the capabilities of an initiative we call Buildings as Code™, which enables discipline experts to encode information about building systems into software so that we can automate significant aspects of our work.

This project relies heavily on the dotnet ecosystem, mainly in idiomatic F#, but we are regularly investigating alternative technology stacks with a preference for strongly-typed languages. While new team members are not expected to have already mastered these tools, we expect that you'll come up to speed quickly with support from the current team.

You’ll be responsible for developing core functionality of the application, incorporating feedback from stakeholders across the business, and contributing your own ideas. With the small size of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the project and learn a lot along the way. Not only will you collaborate on the day-to-day work of moving projects forward, but you'll also work to advance your colleagues through direct and indirect mentorship.

Our work on Buildings as Code is ambitious, and while it has a narrow focus today, we fully intend for its scale and scope to continue to grow. While still in the research phase, we are actively applying our work to real projects. The person in this role will help us navigate the path of developing a software as a service application with the potential to incorporate numerous state-of-the-art technologies serving more major technology companies. We expect you'll grow your experience as the features and capabilities of this application itself grow. We see this initiative as an essential part of TEECOM’s future.

You are excited about us because…

• We work collaboratively as a distributed team - we are a remote team and we use GitHub, Slack, and video conferencing extensively to collaborate.
• We value curiosity and learning - as a research and development team, we work hard to support and protect curiosity and creativity.
• We have wide areas of interest - we work on a variety of projects that support the organization through numerous technology stacks and there are many opportunities to learn from folks outside your direct area of responsibility
• We have excellent benefits - we offer trans-inclusive healthcare, investment time, conference budgets, and more.

We are excited about you because…

• You are respectful, empathetic, humble, and eager to learn. Like all successful professionals, you are kind and considerate. We want you to take your work seriously and be excited about personal and professional growth.
• You are an effective and compassionate communicator. As a distributed team, communication is extremely important to our team’s success.
• You are able to solve problems independently and collectively. We encourage autonomy with individual projects, but are always happy to help our teammates when they get stuck.

Outside of the R&D team, you are also able to succeed as a individual contributor with the rest of our engineering services organization according to the principles below.

Impact and Influence

• Deploy Technical Expertise: Individual has a deep knowledge of their technical languages and datasets. Individual makes technical decisions based on their experience and can explain their decision process to peers and stakeholders.
• Make Difficult Decisions: Individual knows when to say "no" to a feature request and can explain why.
• Demonstrate Excellent Communication: Individual can speak and write fluently and clearly on all technical and social topics encountered in their duties.
• Lead by Example: Individual sets the example for the team by aligning their actions with their words.

Skills - You are confident in your ability to:

• Understand other technical domains quickly with the help of experts and use their feedback to design and implement software components
• Break a large, complex feature down into implementations of types and functions
• Solve compile-time and run-time failures equally
• Give and receive feedback on technical decisions concisely and gracefully

Essential Duties and Responsibilities - You are able to:

• Read large feature descriptions, clarify them, and independently execute their implementation cleanly and efficiently
• Get excited about niche technical topics

What Success in this Role Looks Like - You can:

• Come up to speed in a large distributed application quickly
• Lead the implementation of a major new feature in your first 128 days
• Avoid "not my problem" thinking and always use your skills to innovate in how TEECOM delivers its industry-leading engineering services

Experience

• Developed a lot of code for applications large and small, ideally with some connection to the AEC industry
• Communicated a lot in writing about the code you and others have developed
• Fluency with a high-level, statically-typed language (E.g. F#, C#, C++, etc.)
• Have iterated on your own and others' solutions to a problem
• Understand the value of version control and pull requests that explain why a change is being proposed
• Awareness of the AEC industry tools, especially Revit

Your level will be evaluated and determined during the interview process We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.