Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

Ternary is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack to join our journey to build the best multi-cloud FinOps platform in the market to help engineers, finance, and business leaders maximize the business value of the cloud.

Global cloud spending will grow at more than 20% annually to over $670B in 2024, and enterprises are actively looking for a platform that provides visibility, optimization, and automation to manage their large amount of cloud spending and maximize business value. Ternary is a leading innovator in providing such a platform and product, managing tens of billions of dollars of cloud spend for our customers. Our platform uniquely provides enterprise-grade cost allocation, anomaly detection, forecasting, optimization, and case workflow management to foster team collaboration and realize key business value. Join us as we take Cloud FinOps to the next level. 

As a Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack at Ternary, you will play a pivotal early role in driving Ternary’s product growth and leading teams to build groundbreaking new products 0>1. 

We:

• Are a passionate team of people who are devoted to building the platform that would have best helped us (engineers, finance, leadership) with Cloud FinOps in our past positions.

• Have a founding team with deep experience - many of our team members were early employees for the legacy products in the FinOps space and have seen this movie before. 

• Have Enterprise customers operating at scale.

• Have plenty of runway to succeed with our recent Series A funding.

You:

• 10+ years of experience building scalable web applications in both early-stage and enterprise companies.

• Experience building applications with Node.js, React.js, and TypeScript.

• Experience working with Relational and Non-Relational Databases.

• Passionate about learning new knowledge and skills, skilled at quickly ramping up in new areas.

• Product-focus. Possess strong product sense when making detailed product-related technical decisions. Proficient in leading product and project discussions as a technical leader with PMs and other stakeholders. Experience interacting with customers and business leads. Regularly consider business lenses and tradeoffs, even for deeply technical engineering problems.

• Process and Best Practice: Rigorous in both technical expertise and engineering best practices. Maintain a balanced view of processes and efficiency, with strong skills in documentation. Driven and execution-focused, with a bias toward action, ensuring sensitive topics are addressed promptly rather than allowed to fester. Committed to promoting these traits within your own team and across the broader organization.

• Ownership, Leadership and Communication: Strong collaboration with peers and effective communication with stakeholders. Excellent critical thinking skills.

Responsibilities:

• Uphold a high bar by participating in technical discussions, providing feedback on specs, and making recommendations—uplifting and mentoring junior team members.

• Work on areas including, but not limited to, API design, Relational and Non-Relational Databases, UI development, Auth, CI/CD, documentation, and other business logic and customer-facing features.

• Ship and own high-impact products end-to-end with high quality. 

• Have a long-range vision for systems that you own. Responsible for overall architecture and quality bar of webapp area.

• Take ambiguous technical problem statements, turn them into an actionable plan, and then execute them with the team.

• Coordinate cross-team collaboration, incorporate customer feedback into product engineering roadmap, and drive delivery execution.

• Communicate engineering strategy with other leaders to ensure that the products being built truly elevate the organization and enable us to move the business forward.

• Mentor junior members, work with the Engineering Manager, and other senior members of the team to uplevel the team.

Comp and benefits:

• Company-sponsored travel to interact with colleagues several times a year.

• We provide generous health benefits, 401(k) plan, and a WFH budget for you to set up your home office.

• Equity compensation so that all employees can participate in Ternary's success.

• The team culture is the best of what you would expect to see at a startup combined with a level of maturity you would see at a much larger company.

At Ternary, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of racial orientation, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Ternary is a remote-first company.