About Us
Planful is the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software. The Planful platform, which helps businesses drive peak financial performance, is used around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and analytics. Planful empowers finance, accounting, and business users to plan confidently, close faster, and report accurately. More than 1,500 customers, including 23andMe, Bose, Boston Red Sox, Five Guys, and Zappos, rely on Planful to accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at planful.com.
About the role
As a Senior Software Development Engineer - I, you will be responsible for helping deliver key features within our product line, working alongside experienced engineers. Planful for Marketing is a multi-tenant SaaS solution built in AWS with Python, Django, Angular, RDS (PostgreSQL), and DynamoDB. You will help define product direction, find effective technical solutions to deliver new capabilities, and generally help solve challenges not yet addressed in the market. This is a great role for someone who is self-motivated, has a passion for the latest developments in technology, and loves delivering solutions to business problems.
Requirements
● 5+ years of experience in software development in a SaaS environment with strong problem-solving skills
● Strong computer science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithm design
● Must have expertise in Modern Angular/React framework and Meta CSS framework
● Should have expertise in Performing UI and Front-services unit testing
● Experience using and extending Material Design is desirable
● Proficient in modern web development technologies and techniques, including JavaScript, J-Query, CSS, responsive design, RESTful APIs, GitLab, etc.
● AWS experience a plus
● Experience delivering complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
● Proven skills to adopt best practices in software engineering architecture, design, and version control
● Demonstrated experience working in an agile environment.
● Engineering degree from premium institutes will be an added advantage
Responsibilities
● Deliver key features. This includes understanding the business objectives, negotiating with product management to optimize the requirements, determining the optimal implementation strategy, implementing, supporting testing efforts, and ensuring timely delivery.
● Deliver rapid innovation. You will be leading efforts to deliver new capabilities to connect disparate systems, and empower marketing teams to effectively manage their budget and optimize results in coordination with their finance counterparts. Our sprints are delivered on a four-week cadence.
● Advocate for technical excellence. Identify opportunities to leverage new technologies, retire technical debt, and build solutions that will scale (must support our ongoing targets of 2-3x annual growth).
● Communicate clearly and fearlessly. We are a global team, and you will be required to have excellent written and verbal skills. If you don’t understand requirements, have concerns about a suggested approach, or have ideas for a better solution, you are encouraged and expected to speak up.
Why Planful
Planful exists to enrich the world by helping our customers and our people achieve peak performance. To foster the best in class work we’re so proud of, we’ve created a best in class culture, including:
2 Volunteer days, Birthday PTO, and quarterly company Wellness Days 3 months' supply of diapers and meal deliveries for the first month of your Maternity/Paternity leave Annual Planful Palooza, our in-person, company-wide culture kickoff - most recently held in Goa, India! Company-wide Mentorship program with Executive sponsorship of CFO and Manager-specific monthly training programs Employee Resource Groups such as Women of Planful, Parents of Planful, and many more. We encourage our teammates to bring their authentic selves to the team, and have full support in creating new ERGs & communities along the way