Software Engineer

👋 Hi there,

Are you up for it?

We could be a great match if:

• you’re a great software developer. We want to work with skilled people who have a real focus on the customer experience.
• you believe preparing work is more valuable than doing the work. There is nothing that we dislike more than rushing into the code. Instead, we plan and prepare by spending the required time allowing to identify the key areas and the main evolutions needed. The rest should be like playing along a score sheet of music.
• you have actively designed complex architectures. We are looking for people that have been involved in complex multi-services, multi-technologies environments.
• you're looking to take ownership over a project from start to finish: understand the business logic, the requirements and ensuring delivery.
• you're interesting in creating an outstanding, flexible and generic enough user experience that match different use cases. Yes we do mean no-code here 😉
• you like to work in close collaboration with a product team to challenge high level spec, define the MVP together and provide the most adequate solution
• you have an experience in building fast, reliable, real-time web-based applications
• you value an approach to quality. You build a feature with the highest level of quality possible at the time
• working with scaling or high load application is not something that scares you
• you want to have an impact on the team: at folk, developers pitch their improvement proposal to other devs so we can spec them out and add them to the roadmap - it can be just about anything from introducing a new library, to improving our CI or even a major architectural change.
• you like to work in a team as it gives you the ability to challenge things, ask questions, and suggest solution.

Our stack

We’re not so much focused on libraries but on a more high level approach of how to build the right things the right way. A lot of effort is spent preparing the work, questionning the purpose of the project, the required evolution of the stack and we certainly want to avoid rushing into code.

• Frontend: ReactJS, Typescript
• Backend: NodeJS, TypeScript, SQL, Redis, Kafka
• SaaS: Algolia, Gitlab, Figma, Slack (gif-less so far...)
• Data: Python
• Hosting: AWS
• Monitoring: Datadog, Sentry

If you want to know more about the daily life at folk, the following sections should interest you 👀

• 👋Meet the team
• 🥁How do we work together?
• ✨Tech team - What's the day-to-day?
• La Cadence or how folk's tech team finds its balance

Sounds like you? Then, we should probably meet 🙃

We'll review your application and we''ll get back to you within a week. No matter what our decision is you will hear from us 🙃

Here's our hiring process for this role:

1. A 30min video call with Morgane - Talent Manager to make sure our expectations are aligned.
2. A 45min video call with Jean-Yves - CTO to deep dive a little bit more into tech, to make sure you're interested in our stack and product, and to check that your skillset and mindset fit for the job.
3. A 1h call with Jean-Yves - CTO and one member of our engineering team. During this session, we will have a high-level conversation about architecture and product.
4. 1h technical test, pair programming: we use the test as a base for discussion to figure out how it feels working together and to cover coding skills, architecture and exploration on a new topic.
5. A 30min video call with folk's cofounders. It's the perfect opportunity for you to ask anything about the company.
6. (opt) 30 min coffee with team members to get a feel of the work atmosphere