Hi HN, I'm Alex, CEO and co-founder of Showdrop. We're building an entirely new way for brands to reach consumers in real life, by building a platform that connects brands with local brick-and-mortar businesses looking to rent out excess space.We just raised a pre-seed round from a stellar group of VCs and angels, and we’re seeking a product-driven entrepreneurial software engineer to join the Showdrop team as our hands-on Founding Engineer.The Founding Engineer will be responsible for building the Showdrop platform, defining the engineering culture and leading a high-quality engineering team.This is a ground-floor role at a startup backed by top VCs, with an amazing team who together share this rare opportunity to reinvent the future of IRL retail.Responsibilities will include:- Be a thinking partner to the Showdrop leadership team, including actively participating in roadmapping and architecture discussions- Manage all tech development, including in-house and outsourced software development and data engineering- Produce high-quality, production-ready, readable, maintainable code- Lead large projects from initial inception to production- Hire, manage, mentor, & grow the Showdrop engineering teamIn terms of what we're looking for, you're ideally someone who:- Codes and wants to code- Likes to move quickly and ship to customers- Has 4+ years experience with Ruby on Rails or Django- Can work across the stack — infrastructure, database, backend, frontend- Has experience building, deploying and supporting software in productionWhat you get:- Competitive salary
- Meaningful equity in Showdrop
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- 401K
- Shared office space in Chicago with free coffee/snacks and awesome views of the city
- The opportunity to be a core early member of the Showdrop team (first 5 employees) that shapes and implements our vision for a new model of IRL product discovery and samplingIf this sounds interesting, please reach out to me at alex [at] showdrop [dot] com, with your resume/LinkedIn, a few lines on why the opportunity appeals to you, and any other relevant information.Thanks!
Alex