Responsibilities
- Deliver High-Quality Features: Quickly ramp up on Cake’s architecture (e.g., Next.js, Go Kubernetes Operator, Crossplane, and Terraform).
- Contribute code with high autonomy and identify technical debt or bottlenecks affecting velocity.
- Suggest immediate process/tool improvements to optimize team speed.
- Own Critical Initiatives: Lead at least one major product feature or architectural refactoring from concept to production release by your second month.
- Drive improved code quality, security, and performance through thoughtful reviews and mentorship.
- Mentor & Share Knowledge: Conduct knowledge-sharing sessions or pair-programming to elevate team skill sets.
- Provide clear, actionable feedback to help other engineers grow and adopt best practices.
- Engage with Customer Needs: Work directly with customers, answering questions and troubleshooting issues.
- Use this insight to inform product priorities and improve overall solution impact.
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to respond to critical customer issues.
Requirements
- 5+ Years of Software Engineering
- Significant experience in full-stack development with React or Next.js, plus backend expertise (Go preferred)
- Experience designing and implementing robust user-facing APIs
- Familiar with AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Solid understanding of container orchestration (Kubernetes strongly preferred)
- Proven track record of building secure, scalable platforms
- Ability to diagnose and debug complex production systems
- Embrace test-first, DevSecOps approaches and modern CI/CD pipelines
- History of working directly with customers, translating feedback into technical requirements
- Excited by product ownership, iterative development, and fast-paced decision-making
- Excellent Communication: Skilled at articulating complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences, both verbally and through documentation
- Able to drive consensus and collaborate effectively across teams
Additional Information
- Cake is a remote-first company
- Cake is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and job seekers regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected category
- As an equal opportunities employer, we value diversity and its positive impact on our culture
- Cake also complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- We are dedicated to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities
- If you require accommodation, please email us at accommodationrequests@cake.ai and we will promptly address your request
