Software Engineer

About Volt

Volt is transforming the massive and rapidly growing communications platform industry ($400B). Backed by some of the world’s leading venture capital investors, we are on an ambitious mission: To make leveraging communication infrastructure easy for software companies. Our work is to improve developer experience and lower total cost of ownership by building a fully managed messaging infrastructure stack so that software teams can focus on building applications that delight users. 

About the Role

Volt is hiring talented Full Stack Software Engineers to join our growing team. As a key player in our product lifecycle, you'll leverage your technical expertise, creativity, and user-first mindset to deliver exceptional SaaS solutions that align with market needs. This role offers the opportunity to tackle innovative technical and developer experience challenges, collaborate closely with users as part of a product-driven team, and make meaningful contributions where your impact will be most significant.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with large amounts of data at scale and database tables with billions of rows.
• Strong focus on users and product innovation — engineers are front-and-center in product development and decision-making processes. You will be directly involved in customer research, designing and implementing features, measuring product results, and iteration.
• Very agile but non-dogmatic development environment, deploying several times each day
• Develop solutions to novel technical and developer experience problems; we are building the first true platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for mobile messaging.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable SaaS applications using modern frameworks and tools.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to define product features and roadmap priorities.
• Create robust, maintainable, scalable software architecture that meets business and technical requirements.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code while ensuring proper testing and debugging processes are followed.
• Develop APIs and integrations with third-party services to enhance product capabilities.
• Continuously monitor, analyze, and improve application performance and user experience.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless product delivery, aligning development timelines with business objectives.
• Integrate user feedback into iterative development processes to deliver solutions that exceed customer expectations.

Technologies We Use

Languages: Rust, Python, TypeScript, Go (golang)

Infrastructure + Tools: Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Git, React

Requirements

• Software engineering experience in a high-growth SaaS startup environment.
• A collaborative, pragmatic, user-focused mindset.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems, ability to resolve and prevent them.
• Experience across the full stack in production web and server codebases with sophisticated use of relational database systems.
• The ability to build within unfamiliar systems and write maintainable, well-tested code.

Benefits

• The salary range for this position is $90-130K, depending on experience level, plus Bonus. 
• The company provides employees with health, dental, vision, and life insurance at no extra cost. 
• Equity in the form of stock options is awarded to all employees.