Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Backend Developer

This range is provided by Kipsu. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

$55,000.00/yr - $70,000.00/yr

Kipsu is a growth stage Minneapolis-based technology company that has grown to over 120 employees. At Kipsu, we help service professionals Meet the Moment - from partnering with some of the largest hospitality brands in the world to working with clients in the multifamily and healthcare industries. Our best‑class technology enables organizations around the globe to better serve their customers through streamlined messaging, data‑driven performance metrics, sentiment analysis and workflow management.

As one of the Twin Cities’ leading tech companies, Kipsu has cultivated a reputation for a strong company culture and is consistently recognized by the Star Tribune as a Top Workplace.

You’ll join an expanding and accelerating team of Software Engineers in our Experience Practice that focus on front‑end technologies but also contribute to data and backend solutions as a part of a cross functional team. Our developers work with React, React Native, Kotlin, PHP, Typescript, MySQL, Postgre

SQL, Elastic Search, REST APIs, and AWS services like EC2, SQS, S3, Lambda, among others. The engineering team has a tight partnership with our product team and executives and they see the impact of their work on Kipsu’s business every day.

• Learn and specialize in our Front‑End tech stack – representing the Experience practice within a cross function team
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support world‑class software across a range of tech stacks in a SaaS environment
• Use design patterns, best practices, and the right mix of object oriented and functional programming techniques to solve complex business problems
• Participate on a daily basis on an agile software development delivery team
• Use source code management and devops tools and practices in your day to day engineering work
• Participate in peer reviews, pair programming, workshops, and learn best‑in‑class development practices
• Join our Experience practice – a team of engineers dedicated to designing, building, and supporting world‑class front‑ends, user experiences, and user interfaces across all screens and devices
• Troubleshoot and resolve bugs and production issues while minimizing downtime to customers
• Ask thoughtful and relevant questions to analysts and other business stakeholders in order to better solve the problem at hand
• Occasionally attend external customer meetings to design and troubleshoot technical solutions
• Make improvements to modules/libraries/services and go out of your way to help others learn from it
• Proactively document and share knowledge to enable others to learn, improve, and achieve

• 0‑3 years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Passion for designing, building, delivering, and supporting world‑class software
• An interest in specializing and developing expertise in Front‑End tech stacks
• A desire not just to work within the existing status quo, but rather a true drive to be a “builder” and shape a modern stack that is critical to our business
• A deliberate delivery mindset and attention to detail
• An ability to partner with client‑facing teammates to help create insights out of information
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• A willingness to help mentality where “not my job” is not part of the vocabulary
• Ability to appropriately manage individual and team workload, escalations, and roadblocks
• Persistence in reaching your goals, even when you’ve run into some obstacles along the way

• We’re a solid, stable company, and we enthusiastically embrace our founding startup spirit– everyone pitching in and working to the same goals.
• Our culture– We have a team of highly motivated colleagues who are all in it together. We all succeed as one, and we all learn from our mistakes holding our interdependence in high regard.
• Our unique philosophy– we bootstrapped this company ourselves and are in it for the long‑term. There is a distinct sense of purpose and ownership at Kipsu as we do things on our…