Back-End Software Engineer

What We Do

Poplin is the first and largest peer-to-peer marketplace for laundry. Our customers tap the app and outsource their laundry. For them, it’s life without laundry, because we hacked it out of existence. But Poplin solves a second problem too, which is that more and more people of varying backgrounds want to work from home. Luckily most people have an underutilized washer/dryer, which when combined with Poplin’s Laundry Pro app, provides the first-ever manual labor work-from-home gig in the world. 

For all our users, Poplin is a marketplace for a better life. 

Our Progress 

Perfect product market fit drove a 100x surge in users and revenue and double-digit MoM growth over the past few years. In 2021 Poplin scaled to 500+ markets throughout the United States. In March 2022 we closed a $10m seed round which included VC investments from Headline, Origin Ventures, Starting Line VC, Ludlow Ventures, and Clean Ventures, as well as notable angel investments from Max Mullen, co-founder of Instacart, Steven Galanis, Co-founder and CEO of Cameo, Joanna Riley, CEO and co-founder of Censia, and Rob Chesnut, Chief Ethics Officer for Airbnb. Significant growth continued in 2022 and 2023. 

The Role 

As Poplin’s Back-End Software Engineer, you’ll report to and work closely with the Head of Engineering, who is responsible for creating and driving the technical strategy for the user experience. You will help champion the technology selection and best practices in Poplin’s app and web development. You will help lead the way in bringing technical excellence and innovation to Poplin’s codebase. You will spend the vast majority of your time building the Poplin product. You must love to code and want to spend most of your time doing so. 

Duties and responsibilities: 

• Work cross-functionally, collaborate, and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute product and business strategy and build world-class products and features that our users will love.

• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll review code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks. 

• Reviewing pull requests for code reviews. 

• Contribute to code. 

• Execute the product roadmap, including ensuring that customers are matched with high-quality Laundry Pros, facilitating a seamless order flow for customers and Laundry Pros from the web or app, enabling recurring orders, geo-based dynamic pricing, expansion to Canada, and more. 

• Achieve and maintain world-class product velocity. 

• Timely and consistent communication with company leadership, engendering trust and confidence in code quality and product velocity. 

Requirements 

• Ideally, the right candidate has demonstrated organizational-wide impacting experience building back-end services, jobs, and workflows. 

• Minimum of 10 years active coding experience. You are coding now and want to keep coding. 

• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.

• Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, driven, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. 

• You love to build new things. You care about innovation. 

• Strong communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and can discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical colleagues and leadership. 

• Can code in a multitude of languages but is highly proficient with Typescript.

• Well-versed in backend and DevOps technologies such as containerization, microservices, and message brokers. 

• Experience implementing and monitoring metrics for cloud services. 

• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills. 

• Self-motivated and a desire to work in a high velocity, async environment. 

Tech Stack 

Our tech stack is mostly TypeScript, allowing engineers to implement end-to-end functionality. On the frontend we use Angular/Ionic and on the back end Firebase. 

Why You’ll Love Working with Us 

• You’ll be part of a team that’s as passionate about innovation as you are—no “business as usual” here. 

• Your work won’t just be noticed—it’ll be celebrated. You’ll see the impact you’re making on our products and users, daily. 

• Work when and where you’re most productive. We believe in flexibility and results over rigid hours.

• You’ll be one of the first employees at a fast-growing tech startup 

• You’ll be getting in early to make a key impact at a consumer marketplace startup that is experiencing rocket growth. 

• You’ll play a critical role in building Poplin from the ground up, including influencing our culture, core values, who we end up hiring, and how we build and roll out world-class practices and processes. 

• You’ll experience unlimited growth opportunities as the company grows, scales, and matures. 

• You’ll be part of a team that is mission-driven, works hard, and is in service to our community of users. 

• Compensation consists of a base salary, equity package, and benefits. 

Location 

• Remote

Poplin asks respectfully to only apply through the application form and not email/apply to them directly. Recruiters and Agencies please do not contact Poplin directly.