Gracely is hiring a
Senior Founding Engineer

📍 Athens, Greece

Gracely is a modern Church Management Software (ChMS) on a mission to equip churches with the tools they need to thrive. After a year of rapid growth, we’re at the critical juncture where a strong engineering team can be the difference between good and outstanding results. We’re looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with a doer attitude, love of state of the art engineering practices, and the pragmatism required to deliberately break them when the need arises.

Gracely’s backed by Starttech Ventures, a venture builder with a track record of producing a couple of Greece’s most successful scaleups (the industry-leading Epignosis and Yodeck). Working at a Starttech-backed company thus combines the upside, autonomy, and fast pace of startups with the security, resources, and guidance of a scale up.

* Note that the role is primarily on-site.

What You’ll Do
  • Lead development across the full stack using Node.js, Vue.js, and AWS
  • Address customer pains with technical solutions that are proportionate to the value alleviating them will generate
  • Break these solutions into deliverable increments that fit the budget that Product sets
  • Balance delivering non-scalable solutions to unproven problems w/ building robust, scalable, and performant solutions after we validate they’re worth solving
  • Make architectural decisions and improve how we build software
  • Improve performance, stability, and scalability
  • Mentor junior engineers and support team growth
  • Review code and raise the quality bar
  • Contribute to documentation and internal processes

Mindset
  • You believe that anything that doesn’t generate value is waste
  • You prefer being given problems to solve and the freedom to address them however you view best within the constraints you’re given
  • You hate exhaustive specs that leave no room for creativity
  • You love your craft (e.g. a clean git history, naming conventions that make the code speak for itself, 0 bloat) but you’re prepared to break your own rules when it’s deliberate and justified
  • You’re prepared to ship non-functional code for fake door tests and the like
  • You’ll take a customer complaint about a subpar feature any time of the week over a perfect implementation that nobody uses
  • You have extreme ownership mentality: nothing is somebody else’s problem
  • You are customer obsessed
  • You’re in it for the long term and you want to own a piece of the upside

Who You Are
  • You have at least 2 years of experience at a product company that follows state of the art engineering practices or 4+ years total including 2+ years of leading a tech team at a more traditional or consulting business with robust engineering practices
  • Experience with Node.js/Express 
  • Experience w/ at least one modern frontend framework (Vue preferred)
  • Experience with SQL and No-SQL Databases
  • Experience with REST APIs
  • Experience with testing practices (unit, integration, e2e), CI/CD pipelines, and production monitoring — you've debugged issues in production and know how to prevent them.
  • Ability to define technical architectures and challenge design decisions
  • Experience deploying and monitoring applications in production

Nice to Have
  • Product/Business results-driven taste and sensibilities in UX
  • Experience w/ 3P Integrations
  • Experience w/ LLMs 

Tech Stack
  • Node.js/Express 
  • Vue.js
  • MongoDB
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • GitHub Actions
  • PostHog

What We Offer
  • Meaningful stock options
  • Competitive base salary (€35,000–€42,000 gross/annum)
  • Meal Voucher
  • Parental support
  • Private health insurance
  • Personal training budget
  • Fitness nutrition coaching
  • Personalized (on-site fitness & yoga sessions + personalized training programs)
  • Foreign language courses
  • Masterclasses, workshops, & guest talks 
  • Parking & commuting support

Interview Process
  • Interview with Gracely’s Co-Founder & CEO and Starttech Venture’s Head of Product
  • Technical Interview w/ a Starttech Ecosystem Engineering Manager
  • Final Culture-fit Interview w/ Starttech leadership
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💵 Salary: $41,120 - $49,344
📍 Location: Athens, Greece
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