Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

About Plato

Plato is on a mission to empower engineering and product teams to unlock their full potential. Using our proprietary Talent Growth Platform, we connect engineering and product professionals with industry experts for personalized talent coaching, powerful 1-1 mentorship sessions with our incredibly mentor community, and networking opportunities that drive personal and professional growth.

 

We're backed by a group of impressive advisors and investors including SaaStr, Y Combinator, the Slack Fund, S28 Capital, Eric Yuan (Zoom), Mathilde Collin (Front), Andrew Miklas (PagerDuty), and many more!

 

 

 

 

In joining us, you’ll enjoy a scrappy startup environment, collaborative and thoughtful team members, and full flexibility as part of a 100% remote company. Plato provides everything you personally need to get your job done. We are deeply passionate about our mission and lucky to see the impact of our work, everyday!

 

We’re looking for someone who’s passionate about building products that can last.

 

If you are looking for a new challenge and want to have a substantial impact in a fast growing company, come and join us!

 

 

Who you are

 

• A mission-driven person: At Plato, we're all passionate about our mission to elevate the leadership game in the world

• A product-minded engineer: You will not be building features without fully understanding how they add user value

• A strong technologist: You are a back-end expert with strong front-end capabilities and the team can rely on you for any technical issue

• A team player: You're a natural team player, and you can communicate with other non-technical team members with ease

• A pragmatist: Your solutions are not ivory towers, but driven by context and coherence

• A thinker: You are logical, can evaluate a problem quickly, abstract it, and propose creative solutions

Requirements

• Experience in development: 3-7 years of professional experience in software engineering

• Proficiency with the following programming languages: Javascript / Typescript, Java

• Natural leadership skills: Communication, Pedagogy, Grit, Patience

• Contributing to open source project is a plus

Responsibilities

• You will define the technical architecture for our product

• You will establish the development norms and methods for the team

• Ensure quality by reviewing the team’s code

• Learn from the best engineering and product leaders in the world (https://www.platohq.com/mentors)

 

Why Choose Plato

At Plato, you’ll be given the opportunity to contribute to something truly meaningful that positively impacts thousands of people around the world. Aligning with our mission, we believe that by investing in our team members’ personal and professional development, we can unlock Plato’s full potential and build a thriving work environment for the greater tech community. Even a 10% improvement here will lead to a ripple effect that will benefit our community. 

 

We spend nearly all of our waking lives at work, let’s make it better! Here are some of the ways we do that at Plato:

• Work from anywhere: On our fully-remote team, you can work from anywhere in the world as long as you have 3-4 hours of PT overlap for non-customer facing roles and 5 hours PT overlap for customer-facing roles. 

• Unlimited responsible time off: Take time away to do what you love and recharge with unlimited responsible time off. 

• Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement: Grow within your role or try something new with opportunities for advancement within Plato.

• Comprehensive benefits package: Medical, dental, and vision coverage to keep you happy and healthy. 

• In-person team building activities: We bring our team members together for regular in-person events in awesome locations like the Metaverse, France, Mexico, New Orleans, California, and Spain to name a few! 

• Work with amazing companies: Hundreds of top technology companies have chosen Plato to strengthen their teams including DocuSign, Box, Segment, Rakuten, SurveyMonkey, and Betterment. 

• A diverse team from around the world: Work and learn from a group of diverse team members from around the world including the United States, Canada, France, Spain, South Africa, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, India, Brazil, and more. 

 

Plato is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, disability, protected veteran status, gender identify, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. 

Learn more about your equal employment opportunity (EEO) rights as an applicant here.

Plato is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please provide us with additional information on the nature of your request.