Staff Software Engineer

Published on September 25, 2023

DeleteMe’s mission is simple: to remove customer’s information from search results. We believe in the right to own, manage, and remove their personal information. Since the ways companies collect, share, and sell your data is constantly changing, we strongly believe online privacy solutions must continuously improve and evolve to address these challenges. Privacy is in our DNA – it’s who we are, and what we stand for. Our founders created DeleteMe in 2010 when they realized the difficulty of navigating privacy issues in today’s interconnected and digital world. The ways in which third parties are collecting people’s information is constantly changing, and DeleteMe has continuously evolved to address these challenges for today and tomorrow. We’re real people, and we make easy-to-use tools for consumers to control what personal information companies, third parties, and other people see about them online. DeleteMe is led by a passionate team, backed by premier investment firms, and supercharged by a strong mission to empower consumers with privacy.

About DeleteMe

DeleteMe is a rapidly growing SaaS privacy business operating globally and remotely – we are the emerging leader based on customers and revenues in a fast-growing nascent category of consumer and enterprise security Privacy Services.  What we do - our mission - matters because we are restoring a sense of privacy, fairness, and control to personal data in the possession of others.  Easier, simpler, control underpinned by a suite of new data privacy laws being passed worldwide will play a part in greater personal security, freedom, and in stronger democracies in an era where data collection is at unprecedented levels.  This is what our work and brand stand for and we are building a large, sustainable, for-profit business to catalyze this.  We have strong B2C and B2B businesses with respective product offerings informed by feedback from an active customer base growing between 30% and 200% year/year.  DeleteMe is well-capitalized: profitable for the last three years with an 8-figure balance sheet and large-scale venture firms as investors.

As a Staff Software Engineer at DeleteMe, you will be responsible for driving engineering initiatives for the company systems through architecting, designing, and implementing the respective system components with the main focus on the backend services, but also including front-end, DevOps infrastructure, and databases.

Responsibilities:
Proficiency in Java and Ruby programming languages, with a solid understanding of their respective ecosystems.
Produces scalable and resilient designs, clean code, informative documents
Own features from technical design through completion
Capable of providing on-call support for their area, including systems that they are not their core focus
Research the ways to accommodate the application needs and optimize the DB structure; support and review the data schema architecture and design; develop and optimize the application data interaction
Maintain company-wide and regional data compliance on the application level
Diagram architecture, write technical documents; manage institutional knowledge; conduct technology workshops; evangelize and review the recommended practices
Contribute to the strategic technology decision-making process
Contribute to the team growth; conduct technical rounds of candidate interviews; mentor the junior colleagues

Job Requirements:
Services with varied degrees of interdependence and rich data interaction
Backend: Java (SpringBoot) at least 4 years, Ruby on Rails at least 2 years, NodeJS is a plus
Frontend: React, Angular
Databases: MySQL/RDS, DynamoDB, MongoDB is a plus
Infrastructure: AWS Kubernetes on EKS, Helm, Terraform

Ideal Candidate:
Establishes a culture of engineering excellence
Communicates assumptions and gets clarification on tasks up front to minimize the need for rework
Understands how their work fits into the larger project and identifies the problems with requirements
Subject matter expert in distributed cloud-native systems and data-intensive processing capable of getting up to speed with the existing systems and repositories through code analysis and debugging
Makes steady progress without much technical guidance; Is capable of prioritizing tasks; avoids getting caught up in unimportant details Lifetime learner eager to keep up with the progress of technology
Gives timely, helpful feedback to peers and managers; solicits feedback from others and is eager to find ways to improve

What We Offer:
Comprehensive health benefits 
Flexible schedule
100% work from home
Generous 401k matching
Paid time off
12 company paid holidays
Fitness reimbursement
Birthday time off
Childcare expense reimbursement