The aha! moment when you first create something meaningful with code is a one of a kind feeling, and to someone who's never experienced it before, almost indescribable. At Parabola, they give that feeling to everyone whether or not they have a background in software engineering.

Parabola is solving hard and unique engineering challenges as they architect the visual programming language for the world. From an engineering mindset, Parabola is a programming language, IDE, deployment process, serverless compute environment, and cron job all bundled into one approachable drag-and-drop tool. To make this work, they have had to build out a solid foundation. As they continue to grow, there are many more product, infrastructure, logic, and design challenges to solve.

You’ll be joining Parabola as one of their first 10 employees. You’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow with the company, scaling both your skills and experience as Parabola doubles down on their explosive growth. Parabola is looking for people who want to come do the best work they've ever done, and they'll help make sure they are empowered to do so.

What you’ll be doing on a typical week at Parabola:

• Shipping a new feature to their React app that enables Parabola flows to be embedded anywhere across the web.

• Presenting a lunch & learn to the team on a new testing utility you created that makes writing tests faster for the rest of the team.

• Reviewing a product design spec, asking clarifying questions, and giving feedback on product and potential tech risks or areas of high implementation costs.

• Collaborating with another engineer on a tech plan for the first iteration of the product design spec.

• Writing code with React, TypeScript, NodeJS, or Python.

• Tinkering with AWS Cloudwatch to ensure they are correctly tracking a metric that shows the improving stability of Parabola’s flow calculation system.

• Pairing with another engineer on a some improvements they left on one of your PRs.

Things that make you a good fit:

• Experience: You have 3–5 years of experience in a team-based, production engineering environment.

• Architect: You have designed and built systems from the ground up and have laid out plans and the steps to implement.

• Tinkerer: You love solving problems and are persistent at pushing the team, technology, and infrastructure in the right direction through incremental improvements.

• Communicator: Your communication skills are top-notch. From high-level customer needs to in-the-weeds architecture, you clearly communicate across all disciplines.

• Team Player: You are collaborative and firmly believe that with everyone working towards a common goal, we’ll get there faster and with a better end result.

• Leader: You are interested in becoming a leader within the company in all aspects—from team to code initiatives to architecture.

• Appreciated, but not required: Experience on some of their tech stack: TypeScript, React, NodeJS, Python, Docker, AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, SQS, Elasticcache, Lambda, Redshift)

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