About the position
Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done. Airtable’s mission is to bring the power of computing and software development to everyone. We are developing a powerful and extensible toolkit that our customers can leverage to solve a variety of different problems and workflows. We’ve seen our most sophisticated customers use the product to run global processes across thousands of employees, coordinate precision manufacturing pipelines, and consolidate previously siloed mission-critical data into a single source of truth. The complexity of these use cases requires us to be extremely thoughtful about how we design and implement new functionality in the product and make sure it’s both easy to use and comprehend for our customers and maintainable for us. As a Full-Stack, Backend engineer at Airtable, you will have the opportunity to work with customers to deeply understand their needs and workflows. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners across product management, design, research and data science to create innovative new features that enable our customers to do their best work. You will be responsible for owning and executing the end-to-end implementation of these new features that will contribute to making our toolkit even more powerful and successful.
Responsibilities
- Spec and build product features that are beautiful, consistent, and fast, that encourage exploration, and that earn the trust of our customers through predictable, reliable, and thoughtful interactions.
- Work at all levels of the stack, from AWS, Node.js, and SQL to React, HTML, and CSS to build and maintain end to end products on Airtable, with a primary focus on backend development.
- Partner with product managers, designers, and data scientists to understand the needs of potential users and build a product that unlocks their potential.
- Work alongside and learn from a talented group of engineers with a diverse range of experiences and backgrounds.
Requirements
- 2+ years of industry experience with modern full-stack web development, with particular emphasis on backend feature development.
- Fluent in one or more backend technologies, and interested in programming in JavaScript and React.
- Excited by a product-oriented backend role.
- Good understanding of web technologies and large-scale web application architecture.
- Background in computer science or a related field.
- Belief that the best product is the one that helps users accomplish their goals while growing the business.
- Thoughtful approach to decision making; knowing when to move fast and when to do things right.
- Strong ownership instincts and attention to detail.
- Currently based and/or will be based in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, restricted stock units, and incentive compensation.
- Opportunity to work in a hybrid model with flexible working arrangements.
