About the role
Draftable’s core technology is what makes us unique.
It includes our document structure reconstruction and document
comparison algorithms. Most of this code was written by our founder but,
as we have grown, we are looking to hand over responsibility to an
experienced
engineer.
You will be spearheading our core technology
development. You will start out working closely with our founder making
some key improvements to our algorithms. Over time, you will take
leadership and become the chief innovator of the technology that sits at
the heart of all Draftable products.
You will spend 90% of your time reading the literature, thinking about how to implement things, and writing code.
About you
- You are a problem solver and you love learning.
- You have very strong theoretical and practical
knowledge of data structures and algorithms. Maybe you’ve done graduate
level study and research, or maybe you’ve been involved in programming
competitions like the Informatics Olympiad or Topcoder.
- Once you figure out how you want to implement something, you write code really fast.
- You have at least a few years experience working
as a software engineer and you pride yourself on writing clean,
well-structured and well-tested code.
- You are independent and self-reliant. You’re
happy working on a task by yourself but you will take initiative to
involve other team members when necessary.
Work/life balance
We understand you have a life outside work and we
will respect your non-working and family time.
We expect engineers to work a full time load of 40
hours per week (and no more) and to be very productive during that time.
Our team is mostly remote and we prefer working with
remote engineers, but also we’re also open to welcoming you into our
Melbourne office.
You will have flexibility to schedule your work
around your other obligations but you will usually work at a fixed time.
If your work hours don’t have much overlap with Australian business
hours, you will need to be flexible with scheduling meetings late at
night or early in the morning.
We don’t need you to be on-call, except for when you
push potentially breaking changes. Our service is very stable and we
haven’t had any critical incidents that required urgent attention in the
last few months.
About our culture
We’re easy-going and easy to work with. We’re
developer-led and have a flat structure. We are collaborative, and we
expect you to take an active role in evolving our engineering culture.
We like writing things down. We love Slack.
We launch things as soon as they’re ready. We do
things right the first time, even if it takes a little longer. We don’t
have much technical debt. From time to time we promise a feature to
customer, but we otherwise don’t have many external deadlines.
Some things you might be doing in your first few months
- Adjust the tuning on our PDF header/footer
detection code. Implement a new multilevel Bayesian approach, learning
what that is if necessary, and see if it improves performance
- Hunt down some memory leaks in our PDF processing code
- Debug a performance issue on a particular set of documents.
- Design and implement a space-efficient algorithm for comparing documents that are too large to fit in memory.
About our technical stack
Our core algorithms and products are written in .NET
(mostly C# with some F# and some C++). Otherwise, we have a fairly
standard tech stack: Python (Django, Celery, SaltStack), React,
PostgreSQL, Redis and RabbitMQ.
In this role, you’ll mainly be working on C# code but
it’s okay if you don’t have so much experience with C#, as we have
experts on staff.
How to apply
Send a CV and cover letter/email to careers@draftable.com.
You can also read more about our hiring process.