Software Engineer I

Challenge: Empower people worldwide to celebrate the moments that matter.

Kudoboard is the industry’s most loved technology platform for celebrating moments that matter and elevating gratitude in the workplace. Our mission is to empower people worldwide to give authentic appreciation and we’re looking for talented people to help us do it. We’re profitable, growing, and serve millions of people around the world including numerous Fortune 500 companies. If you’re ready to do your best work in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial culture, you’ve come to the right place.

Kudoboard has been in a rapid growth phase as more companies and events become remote or hybrid. We’re looking to add a detail-oriented and motivated Mid-level Full-stack Engineer to our team.

The ideal candidate will be a deep thinker with a keen interest in the software development ecosystem and the grit and courage to push our platform forward. This role offers an excellent opportunity for growth and collaboration within a dynamic work environment.

Responsibilities

You will work as an individual contributor in collaboration with the CTO, Product Manager, Customer Support/Success Managers (CSMs), Design leadership and Engineers to fully support and expand our technology stack in Laravel and Vue.js.

In your role as an individual contributor, you will be expected to research and implement features and understand and fix bugs. You will be expected to manage your time efficiently in order to deliver to market quickly to help the business remain competitive. All work contributed will be peer-reviewed by fellow engineers as well as designers and business stakeholders.

All engineers at Kudoboard should be detail-oriented, self-motivated, empathetic, customer-focused, intellectually curious, and have the ability to document, understand, and explain their work. They should also have a gritty determination to get things done in a fast paced collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience working on full stack web applications with a reactive framework on the front-end and PHP framework on the back-end.
• Front-end tech stack: Javascript ES6, VueJS (or similar reactive framework)
• Back-end tech stack: PHP 8+, Laravel (or similar PHP framework), MySQL (or similar relational database)
• Solid understand of testing practices (e.g. PHPUnit, Jest)
• Solid database design practices
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong sense of ownership over everything you do
• Proven ability to work collaboratively, effectively and professionally with teams and leaders across regions and time zones.
• Independent, self-starter attitude with the willingness to work hard to get the job done.
  
  

Nice To Haves

• Routing (Vue Router)
• State Management (Vuex, Pinia)
• Familiarity with key-value storage systems (Redis)
• Experience working with large scale databases
• Experience with asynchronous/queued jobs
• Experience in small startup environments
  
  

Kudoboard serves millions of users per month and continues to grow quickly. This is an exciting and fast-moving environment, with a lot of autonomy and ownership over a large portion of our engineering efforts.

Location

Kudoboard is a remote-first company. Applicants must be based in the United States.

Compensation, Benefits, And Perks

Compensation will include salary ($100,000-$120,000), health/dental/vision benefits, matching 401k, generous PTO, and stock options.