Engineering Lead at Acho (W20)
$100K - $200K  •  1.00% - 5.00%
Modern ERP for Operations Leaders
San Francisco, CA, US
Full-time
3+ years
About Acho

Acho helps business teams turn data into apps. Anyone can connect different databases, build complex data pipelines, and build scalable data applications - all in one place with a point-and-click interface.

About the role
Skills: Vue.js, C++, MongoDB, Node.js, Kafka, SQL

Overview

Glad that you found us! I hope that this page explains what we do pretty well. Feel free to reach out to us if there is anything unclear.

Acho is building a modern ERP designed for Operations Leaders. In the AI era, traditional enterprise software simply cannot meet the market demands in terms of performance, capabilities, and costs. Acho’s developing proprietary technologies with AI, streaming, and declarative programming to make enterprise data and resources more visible, controllable, and valuable than ever.

Today, hundreds of business teams use Acho to transform their processes and unlock more value from their data than ever before. Team Acho is engineering-focused and collaborative. Recently closed a Round led by Y Combinator, VCs, and industry leaders, we are setting off to solve some of the hardest problems in the enterprise world today.

As a software engineer, you’ll work on a variety of interesting products and problems for our customers. You’ll generate great product ideas, as well as architect, implement, and release them.

We love engineers owning projects, from start to finish. For example, new features often start off as customer ideas. So it could be your responsibility to talk to the customer and scope out what a solution might look like, in addition to actually building it, testing it, documenting it, and releasing iterating on it with the customer. 

Qualification

Technical Leadership

  • BS or Master degree in Computer Science, or Math
  • 5+ years of experience in software development
  • Architecting, building, and maintaining web applications
  • Excellent communication skills in verbal and written English
  • SQL, Streaming SQL, GraphQL
  • API, Event Flow Design
  • Modern JavaScript Framework
  • Database (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, etc.)

Strategic Vision

  • Product & technology strategy
  • Innovation & growth mindset
  • Scalability & performance focus

Leadership

  • Strong leadership skills
  • Great communication & collaboration
  • Talent acquisition & development

 Website

 FAQWhat does the interview process look like?

  • We’ll reach out for an intro call after reviewing your resume. We may follow up by scheduling a technical interview. If the tech round went well, we’d give you a small project. After assessing the project, we’d be ready and make an offer.

Can I work remotely?

  • Yes. We support a hybrid of remote and on-site work environments.

What’s it like working for a startup?

  • Being a small nimble team is the best way to grow fast both personally and collectively as a team. We tend to debunk some of the stereotypes about working at a startup. We rarely work overtime. Our processes are pretty clear and structured. Our goal is well-defined. Our financial risk is actually a lot lower than a lot of established businesses as we have zero debt, fewer commitments/overheads, and actually grow each month.

What can I expect in terms of compensation?

  • We aim to compensate competitively. Additionally, we ensure a “happy rate” and boost in pay for every milestone we achieve together.

What’s unique about this role?

  • We think big and innovate in technologies years ahead of market

What’s special about team Acho?

  • We’re a group of builders who aren’t afraid of the toughest engineering challenges. The world as we understand it is a big puzzle with tons of problems to be solved. The bigger our goal is, the more and harder the problems become. We’d always want to be the team that solves the most, and hardest problems.
Technology
  •          HTML & CSS
    
  •          Javascript (Vue.js, bootstrap, axios, redux, google analytics, jquery, datatables, webpack)
    
  •          RESTful API Design & Implementation (OpenAPI)
    
  •          MySQL Commands & Utilities (Mysqldump...)
    
  •          Elasticsearch
    
  •          DynamoDB
    
  •          Docker & Docker-compose
    
  •          Python3 (Requests, PyMySQL, SQLAlchemy, Scrapy, multiprocessing, apscheduler, pandas, numpy...)
    
  •          Linux Commands & Utilities (Ubuntu, screen, crontab)
    
  •          Kubernetes (GKE)
    
  •          Load Balancer (Ingress)
    
  •          Compute Engine (GCE)
    
  •          Cloud Endpoint
    
  •          MySQL (Cloud SQL)
    
  •          Redis
    
Interview Process
  • We’ll reach out for an intro call after reviewing your resume. We may follow up by scheduling a technical interview. If the tech round went well, we’d give you a small project. After assessing the project, we’ll schedule for an on-site visit. After the on-site, we’d be ready to make an offer.

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