Sr. Software Engineer, Studio

🌎 Location: Remote within the UK and Europe

⬆ Reporting Into: Lead Software Engineer

About Ceros

At Ceros, we believe that creating powerful digital experiences is essential for helping organizations tell their stories and differentiate their brands.  In a world where buyers are inundated with endless digital noise, it’s critical for brands to deliver experiences that inspire, educate, and make a lasting impact on the audiences that matter most.

Our no-code content creation platform empowers businesses to transform the buying journey with rich, interactive experiences that capture the attention of buyers and drive enduring business outcomes. The platform makes it faster, easier, and more cost-effective to create premium digital experiences, allowing businesses to scale it across their go-to-market programs.

Today, Ceros powers some of the most engaging experiences on the web. In 2023 alone, interactive content created with Ceros — from websites to landing pages and pitch decks to case studies— was viewed more than half a billion times, with over 3 million comments added using MarkUp, our visual collaboration tool.Working at Ceros means making an impact at scale.

Our products and services are beloved by over 500,000 users and leveraged by leading brands including Workday, Colliers, Getty, McKesson, and McKinsey. Ceros is backed by top-tier investors, including Sumeru Equity Partners, Grotech Ventures, Greycroft, and Starvest Partners.

About the Team

As part of the Ceros product team, you’ll be working with a small, cross-functional group of the most talented people you’ve ever worked with. We hire only passionate and creative people with a proven and unquestionable ability to execute, and every member of the team is equally responsible for moving the product forward.

We have a dynamic company culture that collaborates daily. We care deeply about the user experience, and we debate passionately about our ideas. When you work at Ceros, you check your ego at the door, and you aren’t afraid to be honest, especially to yourself. We take our jobs seriously but ourselves not so much. As a member of a remote first team, you embrace transparency and collaboration.

The Role

Designing and building the Ceros platform is not an easy task. We require the best-of-the-best Software Engineers, Designers, and Quality Engineers, ready to build a best-in-class web content design studio, often pushing web browsers to the limits of what’s currently possible.

Our codebase is 95% TypeScript/JavaScript and the Ceros Studio product consists of multiple single-page applications with a client-heavy focus. We use libraries like React, Webpack, jQuery, and Backbone. The Ceros Studio is architected around the HTML Canvas element. We’re not language zealots. We believe in using the right tool for the job, and our current server-side infrastructure runs Node.js, PHP, Redis, AWS Aurora, Docker and Jenkins within the AWS cloud.

We are looking for a Sr. Full Stack Engineer who is experienced in building backend services, but not exclusively. We work as a team of Full Stack Engineers, so it’s important to be skilled in both frontend and backend. As part of our exciting product growth, this Sr. Engineer will join the team who's helping build out the future of Ceros’s API. As such we’re looking for someone who’s worked on building out API’s before, understands and knows best practices when building them and the things to look out for along the way.

Key Responsibilities

• Writing well-architected, maintainable code (probably goes without saying)
• Planning and leading high-complexity stories and epics
• Writing unit, functional and e2e tests
• Reviewing story plans and offering insights on impacts to other parts of the application
• Having your day ruined by Quality Engineers who find every bug you write
• Carrying out and being on the receiving end of intense code review sessions from your peers who hold your work (and their own) to the highest of standards
• Agonizing over the user experience until even a trained monkey could use the product
• Participating as a primary on-call resource for service disruptions
• Suggesting new technologies and techniques to improve engineer productivity
• Collaborating with and mentoring your peers on security best practices
• And finally, deploying your code to production and seeing the customer create something amazing and beautiful with it

What we're looking for from the heart 

• You excel in navigating ambiguity, where complex and evolving requirements are more typical than clear-cut customer demands
• You approach large challenges incrementally, preferring a test-and-learn methodology over prolonged heads-down development
• You are self-motivated and proactive, with progress often driven by your own initiative and that of your team
• Experience in a fast-moving startup environment desirable
• You look to uplevel others around you, supporting teams outside of your specific project

Key Things to Know

• This is a full-time position
• This is a remote-first role, working hours aligned with UK/European time zones

Benefits

📈 Stock options

👶 Paid parental leave: 12 weeks for primary caregivers, 4 weeks for secondary caregivers

🌴 Flexible time off

🤒 Paid Sick days

💵 Stipend for your home office setup

💻 Excellent gear (Macbook Pro, external monitor, etc.)

👩‍💻👨‍💻  Stipend towards experiences in which Cerosians can collaborate, educate, and create social connections with one another

🏢 Unlimited access to co-working spaces around the globe

At Ceros, we are deeply committed to the recruitment, retention, and growth of diverse talent; uniting people from unique backgrounds in our shared passion for unlocking creativity through technology.

As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against a job applicant on the basis of their race, color, religion, veteran status, parental status, gender identity or expression, transgender status, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetic information.  We respect the laws enforced by the EEOC and are dedicated to going above and beyond in fostering diversity across our company.