Company Overview

Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Right Balance applies the latest technology and best engineering practices to help businesses grow. We’re in the top 50 companies to watch in LA.

Role Overview

Software Engineering is at the core of Right Balance and the Senior Fullstack Engineer role is key to the company’s overall performance. In this role, you’ll be focusing on 2 things:

• Interviewing the best and brightest engineers.
• Coding our internal tools and applications. We follow a robust battle-tested interview process including a deep dive into coding, architecture, general framework knowledge, and culture fit. While interviewing will take 40% of your time, 60% of your time will be focused on creating internal tools to automate away hours of manual work, making the team more efficient. Our stack is React.js on the frontend, Node.js on the backend, running on AWS using Serverless (AWS Lambda & API Gateway).

What’s in it for you

1. Learn and evolve your skills using the latest and greatest technology tools in a rapidly growing company.
2. Learn from the best people around you. We constantly challenge the status quo and invent new ways of building a great product.
3. 100% remote. Work anywhere, whether it is remotely in the comfort of your home, in a shared co-working space, in an RV on the beach, or while being a nomad in another country.
4. Work on challenging problems, innovate, and positively impact many people's lives while having fun doing it.

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on experience interviewing engineers including live coding and architecture.
• Upper-Intermediate to Advanced written and verbal level of English. Ability to have a real-time conversation in English.
• 5+ years of full-time hands-on Software Engineering experience.
• 4+ years of experience with Node.js backend
• 3+ years of experience with React.js
• 3+ years of experience with AWS
• 2+ years of experience with Serverless (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, etc)
• Ability to have at least 4 hours overlap with the US Pacific Time zone.

Nice to haves

1. Experience working with US-based startups.
2. Tech lead experience.
3. Team management experience.
4. Growth stage startup experience.
5. Industry publications and/or presentations.
6. Bachelor’s degree in business or related field.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are your typical clients?

The majority of our clients are venture-backed startups at the growth stage. Usually, at this stage, the company already achieved a product-market fit and is looking to expand rapidly. That’s where we bring the best engineering practices, strong architecture, the latest technologies, and consistent processes to help companies scale.

What is the length of your engagements?

Most of our long-term full-time engagements last multiple years. It allows you to evolve your career with the client company taking on more responsibilities.

What’s your company size?

The Right Balance team is 60+ engineers going to 100+ by the end of the year.

What happens if the engagement is completed?

Most of our engagements are long-term in nature. That said, if the current engagement is ramping down, we’ll present you with more long-term opportunities to transition into.

What are your core values?

Client First: we only win when our clients win. We treat client challenges as our own.

Ownership: we embrace responsibility, taking on challenges, getting them to completion, and enjoying getting things done.

Quality: we’re passionate about achieving quality outcomes by applying meticulous attention to detail.