Staff Software Engineer

Required Qualifications

• Hungry and wants their shot to change the world - a force of nature when empowered with the tools, resources and development to do it. Sees joining Anima as potentially their shot to do this, and takes duty to crew and mission extremely seriously.
• Obsessively concerned with UX, and optimises for this when building features rather than arbitrary technical goals.
• Bored and frustrated at big companies; feel held back by red tape, bureaucracy and poor decisions.
• Keen to understand the big picture & entire context of the company and vertical; impatient for growth towards a senior executive role.
• Expert competency in TS, plus being reasonably tech + language agnostic. Comfortable with key frameworks/libraries like Angular, Node and React. Able to work full stack in JS/TS. Values pragmatism and open discussion from first principles rather than dogma.
• Seeks to maximise not only self productivity, but combined team productivity, communicating the right things at the right time through the right channels (verbal/Slack/Notion).
• Disciplined towards best practice version control, CI/CD and code extensibility. Values ‘interface safety’ through dimensionality reduction at interfaces.
• Exceptional at ‘breadth-first search’ through Googling when tackling new challenges, and consistently mindful of local maxima.
• Intellectually curious with a growth mindset - able to tackle entirely novel challenges that lack prior precedent through applying strong CS fundamentals and first principles thinking, creatively using the right data structures & algorithms to solve problems 90/10.
• Familiarity with AWS (e.g. APIG, SQS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Cognito, Amplify, CloudFormation) and/or hungry to learn.