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Lived
Software Engineering
Posted on Friday, June 2, 2023
Senior Backend Developer
Lived is on the lookout for a Senior Software Developer who punches above their weight, to join our fully remote (and fully awesome) team, tackling one of the world's most misunderstood and under-supported health conditionsâaddiction. But that's just the beginning...
Why Join?
Work with purpose and pride: Knowing that your efforts will genuinely change lives around the world for the better
Work from anywhere: We are a fully-remote, flexible (and awesome) team
Work at a global, seed-stage startup: Where you get to be a part of genuinely shaping the future of the product, culture and business
Small team and flexible environment making it easy to rapidly iterate
Join a diverse team of people from Canva, Findr, Milkrun, eBay, Secure Code Warrior and more
About Lived
Our mission Lived is on a mission to radically change the way people access and experience support for overcoming some of lifeâs toughest challengesâstarting with alcohol. Our vision We believe the future in health support is peer-led and clinically-backed, because there can be no greater teacher than lived experience. Thatâs why all of Livedâs products are guided by people who have overcome their own challenges in life, figured out what works, and share that wisdom through Livedâin a way that others can truly relate to and learn from. What is Lived? Lived is an app for anyone wanting to make changes with alcohol (big or small). Lived connects you with the wisdom and advice of those who have navigated through their own challenges with alcohol, discovered what works, and reached where you want to be. Audio guides take less than 10 minutes a day, in your own space at your own pace. No labels. No judgement. No pressure. Just real answers from people who have been there.
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About the Role: Problem solver and value creator
Lived is looking for a full-stack developer.
If you're a senior backend guru, you'd likely know that having some experience with infrastructure and SQL database management is also useful.
A senior developer at Lived is someone that understands business requirements, and is able to prioritise for learning and outcomes, demonstrating technical knowledge and capabilities. They are able to take the lead on feature development, working with the wider team to define definition and drive the solution.
They are committed to building software that delivers value to our members, always striving to improve user experience through solid and performant code.
Our engineering team work in a relatively light version of Agile and Scrum, so you won't be sitting in meetings for hours at a time, feeling like you're itching to get back into some code.
At Lived you will:
Help to shape the Lived platform for our growth and expansion. We are on our way to building not only a world-first platform, but a world-leading movement
Be working in a cross-functional team, to deliver the best experience possible for our customers, and genuinely changing their lives for the better
Own high quality development outcomes, helping in both the concept/value creation, and the execution of features: build, test, deploy and monitor
Help define business requirements from a technical perspective to create actionable, measurable tasks
Work with the wider team on feature feedback and outcomes to help improve the platform
Be proactive in code reviews, feedback sessions, and technical discussions
Be dedicated and eager to tackle difficult problems
Own your work. Push it through QA/UAT and into production with pride
Work effectively both independently and with an established engineering team
Share your knowledge with the other technical team membersâwe all love to learn
About you
Minimum of 3 years server side software dev experience
Experience working with TypeScript
Experience creating & maintaining a distributed architecture on AWS:
CDK (infrastructure as code; we use Typescript) & working with/deploying CDK Stacks
Cognito
SQS
Lambda functions
Queues (SQS)
API Gateway
Cloudwatch
EC2
Experience with (SQL) database design
Experience authoring and maintaining (Postgres) SQL, stored procedures, policies
Experience with GraphQL:
we use Postgraphile but others like Hasura etc. is fine
authoring/deploying custom mutations
Nice to have:
Experience with REST APIs (in AWS environment)
Familiarity with API architecture and development practices
Bonus skills:
Dabbling in some Mobile development
Livedâs tech stack
Dart & Flutter (for mobile app); CodeMagic for CI/CD
AWS
TypeScript
GraphQL with PostGraphile
PostgreSQL database
Integration to multiple third party services (eg Mixpanel, Intercom, Onesignal, RevenueCatâŠ)
A day in the life...
A typical day as a developer at Lived would consist of you considering how to implement new features and requirements, working with the wider team to solidify your understanding of the task, and then diving into the code to write some poetry.
Youâll occasionally be pulled into meetings where appropriate to bring some perspective, but generally youâll be able to focus and get into a state of flow.
Highlights
Backed by top investors including Folklore, Antler, Airtree, Simon Griffiths (Co-Founder & CEO of Who Gives A Crap), and more.
Featured in the Australian Financial Review as one to watch.
Partnered with Monash University, The Buttery, Australian Federal Government and other industry leaders.
Founder: CEO & Founder Sally Krebs is one of the youngest (and most fierce) CEO's in the global Social Impact Start-up communityâhaving founded Lived at just 27. Read her story here.
Our values
Values are actions not just ideas. They inform the way we treat each other and those we support, as well as the products and experiences we build. With a shared understanding of our values, we can go further together.
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People are the priority. Period.
Clear is kind
Lead with pride
Listen carefully
The process we run (so we BOTH know what good likes like)
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