Software Engineer

Overview

Akita Box is a Madison-based startup with about 40 employees. We were founded in August of 2015 by a nuclear engineer, a building technology guru and a lifelong salesperson who had a vision to advance the built environment to improve the lives of others. Our software-as-a-service product helps building managers and operators automate their manual maintenance processes, saving them time and money.

If you’re looking for a startup company that values transparency, empathy, personal AND professional growth, we’re the company for you. We’re disrupting the world’s largest market—the world you and we live in. Our team is expanding rapidly, and we want you to help us continue our growth.

We practice the golden rule - we treat you as you want to be treated. We only hire people we trust (seriously it’s written in our core values), so from day one, you’ll be treated as an expert with valid opinions. You’ll work with us, not for us. We want to help you achieve your goals, while you help us achieve ours.

We have a relaxed and flexible small business work environment with tons of opportunity for growth. We’ve also got you covered with full health benefits, vacation, and paid holidays. In short, we let you be… well... You!

• Awarded - Top Workplaces
• Compensation will be a Competitive Base
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Flexible Schedule

You have a passion to work collaboratively and continuously learn. You want to deliver a balance of sound engineering and help develop, design and execute ideas into creative solutions. You want to contribute to a company, find fulfillment in the work you’re doing and seeing the results of your efforts in real time. You’ll fit in here if you’re hardworking, find enjoyment in developing ideas and want to be part of an awesome team that loves to celebrate a win!

As one of our Software Engineers, you’ll play a critical role in part of our team structure. You will help to make what matters most to our customers and users of Akita Box when it is needed most.

• Implement scalable, secure, low-latency and highly available web applications and APIs
• Execute full software development lifecycle
• Design, build, debug, and maintain efficient, reusable, reliable, and readable code
• Follows guidelines for best practices in securing applications and data
• Perform validation and verification testing
• Write automated integration and unit tests
• Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
• Document and maintain software functionality
• Participates in the agile process: helping complete sprints, review code, prepare for releases, participate in planning, participate in sprint retrospectives
• Supports team with creative and critical thinking
• Balance: completed tasks vs implementing a perfect/elegant solution
• Keep assigned JIRA tasks updated reflecting progress

• Understands object-oriented programming, automated software testing, databases, development workflow, agile methodology, and testing methodologies
• Experience writing automated test cases
• Comfortable using frameworks such as Angular, React, Flutter, Node.js, Express.js and Mongoose.js
• Comfortable writing HTML and CSS
• Understands server operation on AWS and learning elements of our cloud network
• Comfortable using git commands to create/complete Git Hub pull requests
• Naturally innovative, eager to learn, and passionate about software development
• Excellent creative problem-solving and analytical skills
• Possesses great work ethic, is self-driven, and able to work independently
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to work in a team environment
• Enjoy working in a fast paced, innovative, collaborative, and agile environment

We require a HSED, GED or equivalent, but prefer an Associate’s or Bachelor’s degrees.