Robotics will have a massive positive impact on the world economy and global human productivity over the coming decade. At Foxglove, we're excited for this future, and we're building powerful open source & commercial tools to accelerate it.
We're an experienced team of independent thinkers, with a passion for creating high quality products. We're looking for self-motivated and fast-learning individuals to join our mission.
About the role
We are looking for a highly experienced, product-minded Full Stack Engineer to join our small, skilled, and fast-moving team.
We use full stack TypeScript, with React on the frontend and Node.js on the backend. Shipping features will require you to contribute across the stack.
- End-to-end feature ownership, interacting with customers and our community to understand their needs
- Ownership of our REST API, client libraries, and API-first experience
- Expand your knowledge of the robotics and self-driving industries
- Work alongside an experienced team on a cutting edge product
Location
We're a small, remote-only company, with staff in the U.S. and Australia. We meet daily to connect socially, brainstorm, and share progress.
For this position, we're looking for someone located in U.S. time zones.
What we're looking for
- 8+ years professional experience in full stack JavaScript/TypeScript engineering
- Professional experience creating idiomatic SQL-backed REST APIs
- Experience implementing, deploying, and scaling production Node.js services
- Professional experience using frontend frameworks and client libraries
- Passion for building technical tools with engineers as the primary users
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, small team environment
Bonus points
- Experience creating APIs using OpenAPI / Swagger
- Experience with multiple database systems
What we offer
- For this role we offer $175,000 to $225,000 salary, depending on experience
- Work remotely
- $300 monthly remote budget to build your personal workspace
- Competitive equity grant in a Series A company
- Medical insurance coverage at 90% for employees and 75% for dependents (US full time employees only)
- 401k matching (US full time employees only)
- 4 weeks vacation, plus holidays and winter break
- All expenses paid company off-sites 2x/year
Top Skills
What We Do
At Foxglove, we’re building powerful tools to accelerate robotics development. We believe that robotics will have a massive impact on our daily lives and the world economy over the coming decade, and that better quality software tooling will significantly accelerate this trend. Our team’s years of experience working in the robotics and self-driving industries means we are uniquely positioned to bring the advanced tools built in-house at larger companies to the increasing number of startups in this space, across a wide range of verticals.
Our first product, Foxglove Studio, is an open source visualization and diagnosis platform, specifically designed for working with robotics and sensor data. It allows you to easily inspect sensor inputs such as images, point clouds, and time series data, via a highly customizable 2D & 3D environment.
