Lead Full Stack Engineer

Created by hospitality operators for hospitality operators, Avero is the trusted technology partner for the hospitality industry. We empower 40,000+ hospitality professionals with the answers they need to transform their businesses and their lives, getting them out of the back office and into the kitchen with their staff, onto the floor with their guests, and at home with their families.

Avero is looking for a Lead Full Stack Engineer who will be responsible for leading and managing a team of engineers as they design and implement against Avero’s various internal and user-facing applications. You will help foster a highly collaborative and quality-focused engineering culture that addresses the complex business problems our customers and partners face. Through mentorship you will help grow the skills of Avero’s existing engineers. You will also play a key role in the hiring and onboarding of new engineers, as needed. This is a 100% remote role reporting to Avero’s Director of Engineering.

Who You Are

• An experienced software engineer who enjoys working within and nurturing highly collaborative remote-first teams and organizations
• A mentor who enjoys helping others develop skills and grow their career
• An outstanding communicator who can help translate technical concepts and concerns to non-technical stakeholders
• A well-organized leader who can translate a product vision into a technical roadmap, persuade stakeholders, and lead a team to effectively execute
• A strong individual contributor who can lead by example
• An experienced problem solver in a distributed, SaaS environment
• A steward of code, systems, documentation, and processes

What You'll Do

• Manage a team of engineers in an agile environment, including day-to-day people manager responsibilities of your direct reports
• Mentor the engineers on your team and work closely with them on their professional development
• Take responsibility for the technical infrastructure, practices, and priorities within your team’s purview
• Develop roadmaps, milestones, and goals for your engineering team in conjunction with a product manager
• Set and manage expectations and KPIs for your team
• Foster a culture of accountability on the team as they deliver against those expectations
• Coordinate with other leads and product managers during cross team projects
• Align teams across departments to achieve strategic goals that you have influenced
• Build relationships with senior leadership and leverage those relationships to advocate for ideas, initiatives, and your team
• Lead by example as you design and implement software as a senior individual contributor on your team
• Occasionally share in on-call duties to support our production infrastructure

What You'll Need

• Hands-on, expert-level Angular experience
• Intermediate React experience
• Ability to integrate with and troubleshoot integrations with REST and GraphQL APIs
• A metrics driven approach to leadership, mentoring, and processes
• 6+ years of software development experience, preferably with 2 or more years of technical lead or engineering manager experience
• A strong commitment to collaboration in a remote-first engineering organization
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

What Will Set You Apart

• Overlap with the rest of our existing technology stack, including expertise in a few of these areas. We can help you ramp up where there are gaps. Our key technology areas include:
• SQL - we use Postgres and Oracle
• NoSQL - we use MongoDB
• Backend system technologies - we use Java, Node.js, Apollo GraphQL, gRPC, and more
• Frontend system technologies - we use React, React Native, and AngularJS
• Cloud infrastructure and containerization technologies - we use AWS, Terraform and Docker
• Experience working within remote or geographically distributed teams is preferable
• Hospitality experience (technology or otherwise)
• A love of good food

Why You'll Love Working Here

• Competitive compensation, coupled with an emphasis on work/life balance.
• Employer-sponsored benefits package including Health, Dental and Vision insurance.
• We are a remote employer!
• Health Savings Account with contributions from Avero quarterly!
• Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Company Paid Disability, Life Insurance and AD&D
• Commuter Benefits (for those in NYC!)
• 401k and Company Match
• Parental Leave
• ClassPass Discounts
• Equity in the company – all employees have a stake in our growth!

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of employees so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

Please note that this is a remote position and the candidate/candidates and are only being considered for those individuals located in the following areas: New York, New Jersey, Colorado, Texas, Nevada, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Florida, Massachusetts, Oregon, Kansas, Wisconsin, Utah, California, and Tennessee.

For Colorado* based candidates - The range of our base salary cash compensation for this role for candidates living in Colorado is between $130,000 and $140,000. Final offers are determined using multiple factors including experience and level of expertise. We also offer a full robust benefits package. Because Avero's base compensation is driven by location, we will be happy to discuss a salary range for other locations during the interview process.

Please note that we are only able to hire permanent residents (green card holders) or U.S. citizens at this time.

Avero is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. If this role would make you excited to come to work every day, please apply! We look forward to connecting.

Avero is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. If this role would make you excited to come to work every day, please apply! We look forward to connecting.