Lead Software Engineer

Our mission: to make it easy for anyone to make beautiful presentations, in minutes.

About Beautiful.ai

Beautiful.ai is changing the way the world presents by building fast, foolproof tools that enable anyone to tell visual stories that win. The Beautiful.ai team is a playful, driven, and passionate group of pet-lovers, video-gamers, and pickleball enthusiasts. With a globally-distributed remote team and a San Francisco-based office, we find unique opportunities to get to know each other personally, while delivering on our goals. Data-driven decision making and an outcomes-focused mindset are core to our way of working.

Today, Beautiful.ai equips thousands of happy customers, from start-ups to multinational Fortune 500 corporations, with a leading presentation software solution. Companies like SAP, HP, Rakuten, LIV Golf and more trust Beautiful.ai to tell their stories. We are a Series B company and have raised capital from prominent investors including Shasta Ventures, Trinity Ventures and First Round Capital and are led by our CTO/Founder, Mitch Grasso, who is a second-time founder in the presentation space.

About the role

Our small but growing Engineering team is looking for an experienced and self-motivated full stack web engineer to help us build Beautiful.ai. The Engineering Team is creating software that enables even the least design inclined to build beautiful presentations. If you sweat the details, care deeply about everything from quality of code to quality of our users’ experience, and are looking for a team that values collaboration and teamwork, then we want to hear from you.

What you’ll be doing

• Implement product features, associated documentation, and tests
• Take ownership of all aspects of our product: architecture, quality, user experience
• Show leadership through code review, mentoring, and assisting technical and non-technical coworkers

What we expect from you

• Expert knowledge of Typescript/Javascript and single page web app development
• 5+ years professional web application programming experience
• Experience with RESTful API design
• Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases with different data modeling strategies
• Experience with some or all technologies in our tech stack strongly preferred

Our tech stack

Client Side: React, Webpack, vanilla Typsescript/Javascript for SVG layout, rendering, and styling
Server Side: Node.js with Express for API and server side rendering, various distributed node.js microservices
Infrastructure on Google Cloud: App Engine, Firebase, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Stackdriver, Storage

Benefits:

• Flexible vacation policy and a fully remote work policy
• 100% Medical/Dental/Vision insurance covered for the employee / 60%-65% covered for dependents
• Comprehensive 401K program
• FSA and Commuter Benefits
• Competitive Equity with a 4 year vesting schedule
• Life / AD&D and Disability Coverage
• Parental leave for birthing or non-birthing parents – specific to each state / 60% coverage under company secondary insurance for birthing parent