The Great Resignation is liberating tons of people from jobs they feel weren’t ideal on a daily basis as 2021 careens towards a conclusion (after the oncoming heap of holidays), and among these new “searcher” candidates – who want to make the right decisions about where they build their work nest – are some very fine engineers.
Here are eight great companies that offer challenges that they think engineers looking for jobs with purpose might find attractive.
What challenges do you have to offer engineers?
On the Revenue Android team, we have unique opportunities to build high-impact, user-facing features across the entire Tinder Android app.
We recently launched Tinder Platinum as a new premium subscription tier. Not only did this require supporting a new subscription product, but the team also built out all of the user-facing features bundled within the subscription. This was a full-stack effort within Tinder’s Revenue Pod and we collaborated with multiple teams including Product, Design, Backend, Web, and iOS. Our Android developers specifically built out custom animations and views, database and network details, updated billing infrastructure, and overall client architecture to support the Tinder Platinum feature set.
The team is also responsible for in-app payments. Maintaining multiple payment methods and a variety of in-app products (both consumable and subscriptions) requires ongoing infrastructure and architecture work.
With Tinder’s global scale, new feature development on the Android client has an immediate impact on millions of members.
What kind of engineers work best at your company?
Engineers who value a growth mindset and who really believe in our mission to help our members make new connections all over the world.
Also, Engineers with a desire to continually improve their skills and help colleagues do the same. At the end of the day, software development is not done in a vacuum and the ability to collaborate with others will lead to the best outcomes for individual engineers, the teams, and our members (end-users).
Check Out Tinder’s Careers Page Here!
What challenges do you have to offer engineers?
Barracuda’s role in protecting customers from cyber security threats means that we have to be agile and constantly looking to adopt leading-edge technologies and build new algorithms. Working with a large, diverse customer base means everything we do is at scale. We operate distributed systems with huge volumes of data and high customer expectations for reliability and performance. We strive to invest purposefully in refactoring and modernizing our mature products to ensure they continue to meet customer needs and to maintain healthy code.
What kind of engineers work best at your company?
Engineers that work best at Barracuda have multiple positive traits. First for foremost, we put the customer first and so do our engineers. We constantly ask questions like, ‘what would the customer need’ and ‘how can I access customer insights to inform on priorities and deliver solutions. Second, our engineers are great teammates! Everything we do that delivers tangible customer value is a by-product of collective effort. Third, they don’t accept the status quo. At Barracuda, we have continuous improvement as a mindset that informs our daily work to create a safer world.
Check Out Barracuda Networks’ Careers Page Here!
What challenges do you have to offer engineers?
IAS offers unique opportunities for engineers to innovate, collaborate, and build tools that support the future of digital media quality. As we grow our global team, we’re hiring engineers to help drive our latest product innovations across CTV, programmatic, and social platforms, while providing opportunities to foster innovation with events including our Global Hackathon. IAS measures trillions of data events every month – with our Data Science team, we’re looking for engineers who want to take on new challenges and create the latest technology to turn high volumes of data into insights for our 2,000+ customers. It’s a fast-paced environment that encompasses machine learning, UI/UX, and Cloud/Container, with incredible opportunities for technical skill development and career growth in a variety of engineering functions.
What kind of engineers work best at your company?
If you’re passionate about adtech, enjoy a data-driven culture, and want to work alongside people who are passionate about data science, you could be a perfect fit for our global engineering team. Our data-driven software is the foundation of our business, and our engineers play a very important role in IAS’s growth. We look for team members who are highly motivated, ready to collaborate, and interested in how new technology can drive value for customers.
Check Out Integral Ad Science’s Careers Page Here!
What challenges do you have to offer engineers?
Textron Systems is an aerospace and defense contractor with a highly diverse portfolio of products across the land, air, sea, and weapon systems, geospatial technology, and test, training and simulation domains. At Textron Systems, our engineers are innovators and creators—seeing a product from its initial drawing all the way to completion and making a difference by playing a key role in the solutions we provide our customers.
What kind of engineers work best at your company?
At Textron Systems, we hire a variety of engineers from many engineering backgrounds including aerospace, mechanical, electrical, and software. The work environment is collaborative, fast-paced, and team-oriented. Build a rewarding, meaningful career by working with a team that builds the extraordinary. Our ideal hires are driven self-starters that show excitement for our products and a willingness to learn. For engineers looking for new opportunities, please visit our careers page – textronsystems.com/careers
Check Out Textron Systems’ Careers Page Here!
What challenges do you have to offer engineers?
Nextiva is creating a new category of technology that combines communications, customer management, and AI/automation to help companies know their customers better and deliver amazing CX. We call it Connected Communications. We have a genuine need for advanced communications and AI technologies, and we’re looking for engineers who can learn advanced algorithms, languages, libraries, and tools quickly, solve hard problems, and help others come up to speed very fast. Many businesses face the challenge of truly knowing, understanding, and remembering their customers because they’re using disparate technologies where customer context gets lost. At Nextiva, we’re creating solutions to connect conversations and provide critical customer information at every step. This is our challenge.
What kind of engineers work best at your company?
The engineers that work best at Nextiva are motivated to continue learning and developing their skills. We use Java, Go, Python, and Javascript today. Deep knowledge of at least one of these languages is expected, but we’re less interested in language mastery than an engineer’s ability to learn libraries and algorithms and to design and build high-quality software that is simple, well-tested, and easy for others to work with. At Nextiva, we offer great training and working code examples to help engineers continue to develop their skills and advance in their careers. We make extensive use of open-source software and industry-standard CI/CD tooling, so knowledge of current generation tools and OSS frameworks always helps.
Check Out Nextiva’s Careers Page Here!
What challenges do you have to offer engineers?
nCino is the worldwide leader in cloud banking, with more than 1,200 employees working in seven offices across four continents. Over 1,200 financial institutions use our revolutionary, cloud-based Bank Operating System, including some of the biggest banks in the world. At nCino, our software engineers strive to fully understand the problems we work on, collaborate across roles and teams to determine the best design and solutions for our customers, and continuously focus on progress, improvement and scaling for an increasingly diverse and global customer base. Learning and growing are integral to our continued success, so our engineers get many opportunities to build new features and functionality as we continue to scale and expand the nCino Bank Operating System.
What kind of engineers work best at your company?
We’re firm believers that software teams don’t need to choose between providing a great workplace or pushing hard to build great products; they can do both. At nCino we call that balance “hustling in comfort” and it’s one of the reasons American Banker named us the #1 Best Fintech to Work For. We seek software engineers who aren’t afraid to make mistakes, own them, and work with their teams to fix them; who think holistically about our SDLC and delivery cycle; and who have a growth mindset and are eager to learn and collaborate with their teams. On the skill side, we look for full-stack engineers with a deep understanding of object-oriented programming (Java, C#, Python, Ruby, C++) and experience with client-side JavaScript libraries like Angular, React, Vue.
Check Out nCino’s Careers Page Here!
What challenges do you have to offer engineers?
At the core, our engineers are problem solvers. Engineers on product-facing teams focus on product innovations that help us build stronger neighborhoods. Engineers on infrastructure teams enable other engineers to move faster. We never build technology for the sake of technology, but we do build great technology in service of our purpose.
What kind of engineers work best at your company?
We select engineers who demonstrate initiative and grit. Successful engineers seek out high-impact projects and they overcome obstacles while maintaining a positive attitude.
Check Out Nextdoor’s Careers Page Here!
What challenges do you have to offer engineers?
At Ambassador Labs, our products make hard things simple (the hard things about developing on Kubernetes) and, as we all know, making hard things simple is a lot more challenging than just making things. Because we are building tools for engineers just like ourselves, we do a lot more of the product design than a typical agile shop where you just work on tickets: we are full-stack developers in the largest sense as our “stack” includes shaping and influencing the product and the user experience, not just the tech stack.
What kind of engineers work best at your company?
We have a talented team of engineers who want to work on solutions for other engineers. Because we emphasize open source and building community, we receive continuous user feedback, and being able to quickly absorb and act on that feedback are skills that are important to us. Making speed a habit is one of our core values, so an important part of our operating system is giving our engineers the autonomy to execute on time-boxed bets for our customers.
Check Out Ambassador Labs’ Careers Page Here!