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Full-Stack Engineer

Full-time

Workstream (www.workstream.us) is a text recruiting and hiring tool for local businesses, especially quick service restaurants. We are a team from MIT, Y Combinator, Google, Yelp, Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, Lucid, and have raised over $12.5M from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, CEO Zoom, Jay Z, Joe Montana, Chairman of JetBlue, Charles River Ventures, CEO DoorDash, James Harden, CEO Logitech, Chairman Louis Vuitton (LVMH), Peterson Ventures, GGV Capital, CEO LucidChart, CEO Intercom, and more. 


Workstream helps businesses like Jamba, Chick-fil-A, McDonald's, Dunkin', Applebee's, Auntie Anne's, Cinnabon, and more to hire faster with texting / SMS, cutting in half the time to engage, hire and onboard hourly workers, saving you over 10s of hours every week and hiring the right talent faster. We do this by engaging hourly candidates with texting, posting to over 100+ job sites like Indeed, Craigslist, ZipRecruiter, scheduling efficiently via mobile workflows, and seamless onboarding via online signing and more via text.


Job Requirements:


We are a rapidly growing company with a team of over 10+ experienced senior software engineers that is looking for our first US and Bay Area based software engineer to help us rapidly grow in the coming months. We are on an important mission to empower local businesses and deskless workers to do better work. 


In the past year, over 30 million people has lost their jobs, and with Workstream, we have the opportunity to take part in the 2021 Great Re-hiring to help millions of people to get jobs faster and to help local businesses re-open and re-hire. Here is an article we wrote about it - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/2021-great-rehiring-desmond-lim


This is an opportunity to be part of a fast growing post series A SaaS company that have grew rapidly 3X in team size in the past 12 months, and yet be a key founding engineer in the US and Bay Area, and have the opportunity to work closely with the founders. Our founding team comes from MIT, Y Combinator, Google, Cornell, Yelp, and more and have many years of experiences in building startups from the ground up. 


Here is a video of our co-founder and CEO, Desmond Lim sharing more about Workstream and the role - https://youtu.be/azuzZ2guY_I


You should be a full stack engineer who is passionate about helping customers and working closely with customers to learn about their pain points and gaps, and solve for the challenges the local businesses and deskless workers face. Today, we work with hundreds of customers from Chick-fil-A, Jimmy John's, Wingstop, Jamba, IHOP, and more we are helping them to re-open and to re-hire fast.


These are some of the requirements and skillsets of the role that you should have - 


0. Proficient in Ruby and Rails.

1. Proficient in JavaScript
2. Proficient in principles of web development.
3. Solid programming foundation.


# We really value people with a good culture fit, and here are some of the values that we have - 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SHaeKG3IUy_1kE0y8FRnM8PPoEdMS0gmNIsSP3dG-3A/edit


# Here's more information on Workstream

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/07/workstream-a-platform-for-deskless-work-raises-10-million-to-serve-local-businesses/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickdaso/2020/02/06/workstream-a-staffing-automation-startup-helps-small-businesses-hire-hourly-workers/?sh=5ba0f37e306b

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-05/in-the-pandemic-era-the-new-hiring-manager-is-now-a-chatbot


Preferred skillsets:


Here are some preferred skillsets (but not mandatory) 


0. Knowledge of ReactJS, Redux, and related tools.
1. Experiences of AWS.
2. Experiences of dev-ops.
3. Knowledge of Machine Learning/Deep Learning.

4. Chinese speaking is preferred but not required


# How to be successful in this role


We are looking for someone that can grow with our team over time. You have a scrappy, hands-on attitude to hit the ground running. 


You will succeed if you have a startup mentality of “getting sh*t done”, and you will grow as the company scales. If you are looking for a relaxed 9-5, please back away slowly. If you are insanely bright, hard working, humble, and looking to build a career on the ground floor of an exciting and fast-growing software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, this is for you.


# What we offer


- An opportunity to be an early employee at a high-growth SaaS company and work directly with the founding team;

- Full-time employees are offered comprehensive medical benefits;

- A globally-distributed team who deeply cares about each other and shares ideas;

- A belief that productivity is measured by output and not facetime;

- Flexible, schedule with a “use it how you need it” vacation policy - we don’t believe in capping or earning hours. We trust our team to get the job done and rest/recharge as they see fit.

- Help drive the culture of Workstream as we grow!

Workstream - San Francisco Bay Area

172 Highland Ave, SF, CA, 94110
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