Backend Software Engineer

We are building the leading marketing platform for local businesses. We provide an integrated social, web, and email marketing solution designed to help merchants get more customers and keep them coming back by spreading word of mouth, extending their customer service, managing their online reputation, and leveraging our merchant network.

**What is the opportunity?** As a Software Engineer at Main Street Hub, you will… * Write gobs of code – we don’t know any other way to hone our craft better! * Solve technical problems that few have solved before – no one else helps Local Businesses the way we do! * Participate in the decision making progress – we want you to speak up! * Take on the challenge of making what you build higher quality, faster, and more scalable. * Have a direct impact on the company’s top line performance. **Why is it awesome?** * Your work is meaningful: helping local business owners and creating a thriving local economy = helping to make someone’s American dream come true. * You will have a huge personal impact on your engineering team, Main Street Hub business, and most importantly, our service to local business owners. * You will have major opportunities for growth - Main Street Hub is on the way up, creating exceptional career paths for exceptional engineering talents. * You will be surrounded by top talent - we constantly raise the bar and all get better along the way. * You will be challenged – we are solving a business and technical problem that no one else has solved before.

* Enthusiasm for local businesses and a fit with Main Street Hub values. * Passion for data and data driven decisions. * Strong expertise in backend development (we use Java/Scala/Python). * Experience with Relational and NoSQL databases. * Interest in large-scale data management (we use Spark, Airflow, Zeppelin, etc - all in AWS). * A solid grasp on CS fundamentals and deep appreciation for the craft of software development. * A thirst to learn, tenacity to take on hard problems, and the courage to own your responsibilities. * An unselfish, team-first attitude. * Great attention to detail, because details matter (if you apply, include the word “purple” somewhere in your resume or cover letter). * Embrace and thrive in high paced, lean startup cultures – we insist on saying NO to big corporate mentality. * Personal ambition - embrace challenges, energized by more more more, inspired by learning and growing. * Be able to defend yourself in Nerf gun wars that break out unexpectedly, escalate definitely, fun infinitely. If you are the instigator of said war, even better.