Sr. Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer- Vietnam
Company Introduction

Our mission is to enable every organization to be climate conscious and positive with the world's best climate software and data products. Persefoni is creating an all-in-one platform that allows organizations to measure, analyze, and reduce their Enterprise Carbon Footprint. Our goal is to provide our customers unprecedented visibility and insights into the impact their organization has on the environment. Leveraging the latest breakthroughs in data science and software, our technology will empower teams and leaders to mobilize their organizations to continuously improve their greenhouse gas emissions metrics.

About The Role (What you will get to do)

As a Senior Software Engineer you will be an integral member of the Software Engineering Department and be partly responsible for building both our product and our web marketing development projects. Successful candidates should have a minimum of five years of recent professional programming experience at positions requiring the skills listed below with an emphasis on React and Typescript. Our project entails implementing our pre-approved development targets and developing a robust and reusable code framework to deliver a variety of new features across our product lines according to our preferred architecture design and best practices. 

Responsibilities (What we expect)

• Plays a key role in setting medium-to-long term strategy for business-impacting projects. 
• Identifies new opportunities proactively and advocates for and implements improvements to the current state of projects — potentially having broader business impact across teams or products.
• Questions the status quo to generate and implement ideas that drive our products and tools forward.
• Identifies and supports areas of growth for their teammates that take into account their skills, backgrounds and working styles.
• Actively level up less-experienced members of their team by helping them with their craft, providing guidance, and setting a good example.
• Builds relationships and drives collaboration across teams to produce positive outcomes.
• Share information proactively so that the right people are informed and aligned.
• Conducts critical conversations with various team peers and leaders.
• Effectively and quickly debugs cross-module issues, and investigates where bugs might lie due to their deep knowledge of the libraries, platforms, and systems.
• Gives quality feedback on designs developed by teammates, asking probing and insightful questions to solidify choices and surface erroneous assumptions.
• Confirms that best practices are being followed during code review processes.

Qualifications (What you bring to the role)

• Multiple years of experience with the end-to-end life cycle of Agile software development. Including the technical analysis of requirements, development of the software, troubleshooting, and implementing PR and QA feedback. Experience with Agile process management systems such as JIRA.  Collaborating via standard agile ceremonies.
• Familiarity with our targeted development frameworks including React, NextJS, Typescript, Atomic Design principles, and functional component-based programming.
• Proficiency with React features such as hooks, context, HOC, state management, and data fetching.
• Proficiency with dynamic styling in Javascript (styled-jsx and other css in JS options).
• Proficiency with code debugging and uncovering performance issues utilizing developer tooling.
• Proficiency in asynchronous programming patterns.
• Proficiency with Git / BitBucket, Git-flow branch management.
• Experience with GraphQL.
• Experience authoring and maintaining tests written in Jest, React Testing Library and Playwright.
• Experience implementing Storybook component stories.
• Experience with authoring Docker containers is also a plus.
• Experience with using Figma, or similar tools, for extracting design guidance.
• Thorough understanding of user experience and application security practices.
• Appreciation for clean, well documented code, and attention to detail.
• Proactive communication across and within the team.
• Experience building applications at scale by leveraging patterns like code splitting and dynamic imports.

How You'll Know You're on the Right Track

• Within your first day, you should have been able to clone the repository and install the necessary tooling to build and run our projects locally. You should have also been introduced to the engineering leadership and the development team members. 
• Within your first week, you will be familiarizing yourself with the code base and assisting in coordinating work on development tickets as requested. 
• Within your first month, you should be successfully operating with the development team, organizing work tickets to achieve product goals, submitting PRs, providing feedback on team member PRs, and advancing your assigned projects with your contributions. 
• Within your first year, you should be contributing to the software engineering team by providing your personal insights as to how to improve our processes and architectures. 

Job Type:

Full-time position located in Vietnam governed by Vietnam labour regulations, with the Persefoni entity being established in Vietnam.   

Interview Process

• Step 1: Initial screen with talent acquisition
• Step 2: Technical Interview
• Step 3: Interview with Vietnam Country Director
• Step 2: Interview with Engineering Leadership team
• Step 4: Offer extended
• Step 5: Background check and onboarding

Persefoni is an Equal Opportunity employer

One of our company Core Values is 'Equality' which emphasizes our commitment to value and respect people and organizations of all backgrounds. We proudly bring this to life by fostering a culture of innovation, creativity, diversity of thought, and inclusion.

We strive for each of our team members to be able to show up for work every day as their genuine selves. Similar to the reverence given to Earth's biodiversity, we recognize the vast potential that exists when all of the facets of diversity within our team are appreciated and illuminated. This policy extends to all aspects of our employment practices.

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