Job DescriptionAt Instawork, we’re driven by our vision to create economic opportunity for local businesses and skilled hourly professionals in communities around the world. With a growing number of hub cities across the world in the U.S., Canada, India, and beyond, we’re looking for top talent to help rapidly scale our high-tech and high-touch labor marketplace. Our accomplished and dedicated team is passionate about our mission and committed to crafting revolutionary products, all with the backing of our world-class investors, including Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock Capital, Y Combinator, and more!
We have an immediate opening for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, with a proven track record of success to join our rapidly growing team. Reporting to an Engineering Manager this role serves as a critical member of the Engineering team in Vancouver, and is responsible for working in a product team building new features and products across web and mobile. All of the engineers work across the full stack, so we take special care to make the experience as seamless and productive as possible. You will contribute to our process by developing best practices/conventions, tooling, and evaluating new libraries/technologies.
What You’ll Do
-Develop high-impact features end to end on web and mobile
-Act as a tech lead for larger projects
-Create and analyze A/B tests for new features
-Collaborate with PMs and designers to find the right approach to build a feature
-Provide feedback to engineers in the form of code reviews and comments on technical documents
-Mentor junior and mid level engineers on the team
Who You Are
-5+ years of experience with web development in production, preferably with the tools in our stack: Python/Django for web apps and APIs, Celery for background jobs, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, React Native for cross-platform mobile apps
-A deep understanding of best practices in UX, and the differences between web and mobile
-Track record of launching and iterating on apps or large software projects
-Experience as a tech lead on features or projects
-Enthusiasm for evaluating new services and technologies, and shaping the culture and values of the team
-Experience working with Graph Databases or Machine Learning is a plus
Instawork Values
-Bias for Action -- We are a growing team and an evolving product. We want a team of do’ers to drive the company forward, even if it means making decisions with incomplete information or being wrong.
-Act Like an Owner -- Treat this company as though it is your own. Execute on the fundamentals, and act creatively to drive growth. Your ability to drive impact in any part of our company is only limited by your courage and conviction, not your job title.
-Always Be Learning -- We are changing an entire industry. We strive to learn from each other and get better each day, week, and month, so that our team’s learnings can compound and we can all improve, together.
-Empathy, Trust, Candor -- Empathy for our business partners and professionals means we put ourselves in their shoes. Empathy for our colleagues means we are always upfront and honest with each other, which comes from trust.
About Instawork
Founded in 2016, Instawork is the leading flexible work app for local, hourly professionals. Its digital marketplace connects thousands of businesses and more than three million workers, filling a critical role in local economies. Instawork has been featured on CBS News, the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Associated Press, and more. In 2022, Instawork was ranked among the country’s top 10% of fastest-growing companies by Inc. 5000 and was included in the Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startup list. Instawork was also named the 2022 ACE Award recipient for “Best Innovation” and one of the “Best Business Apps” by Business Insider. Instawork helps businesses in the food &amp; beverage, hospitality, and warehouse/logistics industries fill temporary and permanent job opportunities in more than 25 markets across the U.S. and Canada.
For more information visit www.instawork.com
We value diversity on our team and firmly believe Instawork is stronger when we hire people who make their own unique contributions to our culture. We welcome all applicants and encourage candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.
To learn more about our company values, please visit: https://info.instawork.com/about

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Responsibilities And Scope<ul><li>You not only have the technical chops to roll up sleeves and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also build and manage a team of 10-15 top notch engineers.</li><li>You not only optimize your own code but make sure engineers are able to optimize theirs. As an Engineering Manager you manage your business goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team</li><li>Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular &amp; deep mentoring. Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback.</li><li>Operating with scale and speed amidst flux.</li><li>Our world-class software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way. You are their default mentor.</li><li>You work closely with Product Management, Business Development and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high quality technology solutions at a rapid pace</li><li>You set up best practices for development and champion their adoption and at the same time Architect &amp; design technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions</li><li>You work with designers, business analysts, and product managers to estimate and plan projects in an Agile environment</li><li>Perform well in uncertainties and collaborate and work with unclear interfaces to other teams in our rapidly evolving organizations</li><li>You will help hiring and retain top engineering talent.</li></ul>Must Have<ul><li>Excellent leadership skills to mentor the engineers under you.</li><li>Clarity of thought, with strong communication skills.</li><li>Strong knowledge of software development processes and design methodologies</li><li>Agile experience, including ability to competently and independently manage release cycles</li><li>Deep understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available set-up.</li><li>Deep understanding &amp; expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems</li><li>Strong object oriented design skills, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces</li><li>Superior project management skills to manage multi-engineer projects and experience of delivering high quality projects on time</li><li>Above 7 years of experience with technology depth as well as good people skills</li><li>A BE/BTech in Computer Science or some equivalent academic stance.</li></ul>Nice To Have<ul><li>Able to establish credibility with smart engineers quickly, and provide longer term vision and motivation.</li><li>Great people skills to closely work with other teams. Product Management, Business Development, and Operations, all need your expertise to ensure superior solutions match our scale of operations.</li><li>Very high technical competence, strong technical background with track record of individual technical accomplishments – Ability to play the role of the architect for the team</li></ul>

Engineering Manager (BLR)

Our QA team at Instawork needs someone who is laser focused on raising the software quality bar. This person will have the technical skills to understand the work that is being done. They will be responsible for communicating across the engineering and product organizations to give visibility and organize the testing efforts, and to solidify best practices in testing activities across the organization.What you'll do:<ul><li>Implement automation tests across both Web and Mobile (IOS &amp; Android). We are willing to train people who have no automation experience but have strong programming skills.</li><li>Manual testing and coverage for new features that have not yet been automated; Perform Black Box and White Box testing</li><li>Manage and configure build servers used for running automation</li><li>Work in collaboration with development team in continuous build &amp; deployment process</li><li>Create efficient test plans and maintain the test case repository as our product grows in functionality</li></ul>Qualifications:<ul><li>2-4 years experience with UI Automation testing tools. Bonus for Mobile (iOS/Android) experience using Appium and Selenium</li><li>BS or MS in Computer Science or related field.</li><li>Programming experience in Python + Javascript or similar language</li><li>Knowledge in Relational Database such as MySQL is preferred.</li><li>Self-motivated, especially with respect to learning new software tools and best practices in software quality assurance.</li><li>Startup mentality: self-starter, proactive, flexible.</li><li>Good communication and interpersonal skills</li></ul>

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