Software Engineer

Job Description

About Volt

Volt is revolutionizing the rapidly expanding communications platform industry with a mission to simplify communication infrastructure for software companies. By harnessing the power of text messaging, we empower businesses to create deeper, more meaningful connections with their customers. Our vision is to enhance the developer experience and reduce the total cost of ownership by providing a fully managed messaging infrastructure stack. This allows software teams to focus on building exceptional applications that delight users.

At Volt, our culture is built on a foundation of excellence and innovation. Our team is driven to exceed expectations, continually push boundaries, and uphold a commitment to being the best in their field. We are proud to foster an environment where individuals thrive and contribute to a shared vision of delivering transformative solutions.

About the Role

Volt is seeking talented Software Engineers to join our fast-growing product development team. As a key player in our product lifecycle, you'll leverage your technical expertise, creativity, and user-first mindset to deliver exceptional SaaS solutions that align with market needs. This role offers the opportunity to tackle innovative technical and developer experience challenges, collaborate closely with users as part of a product-driven team, and make meaningful contributions where your impact will be most significant.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with a huge amount of data at scale and database tables with hundreds of millions of rows.
• Strong focus on users and product innovation — engineers are front-and-center in our product development and decision-making processes. You will be directly involved in customer research, designing and implementing features, measuring product results, and iteration.
• Very agile but non-dogmatic development environment, deploying several times each day
• Develop solutions to novel technical and developer experience problems; we are building the first true platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for mobile messaging.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable SaaS applications using modern frameworks and tools.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to define product features and roadmap priorities.
• Create robust, maintainable, and scalable software architecture that meets both business and technical requirements.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code while ensuring proper testing and debugging processes are followed.
• Develop APIs and integrations with third-party services to enhance product capabilities.
• Continuously monitor, analyze, and improve application performance and user experience.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless product delivery, aligning development timelines with business objectives.
• Integrate user feedback into iterative development processes to deliver solutions that exceed customer expectations.

Technologies We Use

Languages: Rust, Python, TypeScript, Go (golang)

Infrastructure + Tools: Postgres, Redis, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Git, React

Requirements

• 4+ years of software engineering experience in a high-growth SaaS startup environment
• A collaborative, pragmatic, user-focused mindset.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems, ability to resolve and prevent them.

• Experience across the stack in production web and server codebases with sophisticated use of relational database systems.
• The ability to build within unfamiliar systems and write maintainable, well-tested code.

Benefits

• The compensation for this role is a base salary range of $90-130K plus 5% Annual Bonus.
• Volt provides employees with health, dental, vision, and life insurance at no extra cost.
• Equity in the form of stock options offered to all employees.