Staff Engineer

Location

Madrid | Spain

Job description

Hey, we’re Sparta Commodities!    

We are a Swiss, VC-backed scaleup with a global reach. Our mission is to digitize the commodity trading market and become the leading platform for traders in all commodities verticals. We’ve already gained significant market traction and are financially backed by Venture Investors.  

We currently have a fantastic opportunity for a driven and passionate Staff Engineer to join our growing Engineering team, based remotely in Spain or the UK. This is a great career opportunity for an experienced and delivery-focused front-end, full-stack, or generalist developer to play a key role in the development and maintenance of premium commodity trading data products for a leading and highly regarded business. 

We are a fully remote company with a modern tech stack, and we strive for fast deployments to support the rapid growth we are experiencing, this hire is key to our continued success. 

About The Team 

Our naturally diverse teams are divided into verticals, with a mix of multidisciplinary members. Each team has at least four backend engineers, three frontend engineers, a designer, a QA engineer, a Product Owner, a Team Manager, and a Staff Engineer. 

We work on bi-weekly sprints with quarterly goals. Each project is kicked off by a product request, from which we build a technical proposal that is refined within the team. Once the project has been greenlit one team member becomes its owner. An owner follows the project through development and deployment, making the other team members accountable for their responsibilities. 

The technical direction of these teams is led by the Integration team. Formed by the CTO, VP of Engineering, VP of Data, SREs, and the Staff Engineers. This team’s goal is to keep the cohesion between squads and design the mid and long-term project that affects the infrastructure, continuous integration, and product quality. 

About The Tech 

We have a modern frontend development stack, using the latest versions of React, modular SASS, and Vite. We have a friendly team of developers who love to stay updated with the latest improvements in the industry, as we target the latest 3 months of Chrome releases. 

In 2024 we’re going to build a dashboarding experience, investigate the benefits of SSR for our customers in other regions, and extract our Design System to its own reusable library. 

About You 

We are looking for a pragmatic and generalist engineer who has had ownership of projects from inception until after release, and who is familiar with observability, product metrics, and maintainability. They will be involved in the design of technical solutions as owner and implementor, on top of reviewing designs from other team members. 

On the day-to-day, you will lead a squad and will be their model for balancing product/business and engineering. Successfully planning and delivering complex, multi-system long-term projects, and exhibiting ownership across the organization. 

As part of the integration team, you will define long-term goals and ensure the active projects are in service of them, define the strategic vision, and help reduce complexity to get more done. 

What are we looking for?  

Minimum requirements:

• Leadership, ownership, and accountability for projects and their product metrics.
• Confidence in writing and reviewing project plans, with estimations and budget 
• Proven experience with React for frontend and has dabbled with JVM technologies. 
• Prior work on real-time systems such as WebSockets, stock tickers, or videogames. 
• Knowledge of server-side rendering techniques and architectures. 
• A body of work in Design Systems. 
• Proven English language communication skills that enable you to collaborate in a remote-first company with a diverse international workforce. 

Preferred requirements:

• Projects in other backend technologies such as NodeJS, Go, or Python. 
• Experience building tooling for frontend, such as bundlers or transpilers. 
• High-quality library projects published in NPM. 
• Familiarity with scalability principles for data models, databases, and caching. 
• A strong opinion about developer experience approaches. 

What’s the culture like at Sparta?  

 At Sparta, our culture is not just a set of values written on a wall—it's a way of life. We embrace a dynamic environment where initiative is celebrated, challenges are met head-on, and innovation thrives.  

 We're building an environment where our employees thrive and excel in their work. Our aim is for every member of our team to take pride in their contributions. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals who are passionate about our mission and deeply committed to crafting outstanding products and achieving success for our customers.  

 We operate remotely, understanding that a thriving, profitable company isn't just about being in the same location. We build our relationships through effective remote work methods and carefully planned in-person meet-ups.  

What we offer:  

• Remote working, with occasional travel to a central hub for collaborative meetings and coordination.  
• Attractive company stock option plan.  
• Yearly companywide meet-ups in sunny locations.  
• Training and education budget.  
• Private Medical Insurance.  
• Access to the optimal gear suited for your position.  

Sparta Commodities is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer and promotes diversity within its workforce. As an international business, we are determined that suitably qualified persons will never receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.  

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