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This role will include front-end, back-end, infrastructure and CI/CD.\nYour day-to-day\nBuild innovative new features and products to enhance email security for our customers.\nOptimize our platform for performance and scalability.\nCollaborate with other engineers and customers to develop new strategies for defending against email-based attacks.\nWork with the team to troubleshoot complex issues.\n\nQualifications\n\nWhat you bring to the team:\nOwnership of all stages in the iterative development pipeline from design, to implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring and maintenance.\nWrite secure, maintainable frontend and backend code.\nThe ability to design fault tolerant systems so the team can move fast, without negatively impacting our customers.\nComprehensive ability to troubleshoot and remediate complex issues.\nCuriosity about the techniques used in phishing/malicious email campaigns.\nA passion to stay on top of security trends, experiment with and learn new technologies.\nAbility to learn quickly in a loosely structured, rapidly changing work environment.\nDesirable Skills and Experience:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent industry experience.\n4+ years professional software engineering experience.\nExperience with frontend development (Angular and React).\nYou’ve previously worked at a startup or think you’ll enjoy working on many things you’ve never even seen before.\nDemonstrated software architecture and distributed systems experience.\nStrong knowledge of AWS, GCP, or Azure.\nLanguage polyglot (Javascript, PHP, Python, C#, etc.)\nBonus: Prior experience building cybersecurity products.\nBonus: Machine learning experience in a production environment.\n\nAdditional Information\n\nPerks/Benefits:\nDirect access to senior management – our leadership team works alongside our team members every day.\nComprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.\nCompany paid life insurance, short term disability and long term disability.\nFlexible paid time off (PTO) policy, plus sick days.\nOngoing professional development opportunities by level and function.\nYour choice of Windows or Mac laptop.\nOnsite gym.\nCasual dress in a fun, friendly and collaborative work environment.\nThe ability to have significant impact every day.\nLocation:\nThis position is onsite at our office in the Chicago Loop. 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Our innovative technology protects users from phishing, spoofing, fraud, and other types of attacks.\n\nJob Description\n\nAs a Software Engineer at MessageControl you’ll be building intelligent products to protect people from sophisticated email attacks. In this position, your software development expertise will assist in successfully building new features and improving our security products. Our transparent and collaborative culture means we work both independently and together as a team on projects in an agile environment. This role will include front-end, back-end, infrastructure and CI/CD.\nYour day-to-day\nBuild innovative new features and products to enhance email security for our customers.\nOptimize our platform for performance and scalability.\nCollaborate with other engineers and customers to develop new strategies for defending against email-based attacks.\nWork with the team to troubleshoot complex issues.\n\nQualifications\n\nWhat you bring to the team:\nOwnership of all stages in the iterative development pipeline from design, to implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring and maintenance.\nWrite secure, maintainable frontend and backend code.\nThe ability to design fault tolerant systems so the team can move fast, without negatively impacting our customers.\nComprehensive ability to troubleshoot and remediate complex issues.\nCuriosity about the techniques used in phishing/malicious email campaigns.\nA passion to stay on top of security trends, experiment with and learn new technologies.\nAbility to learn quickly in a loosely structured, rapidly changing work environment.\nDesirable Skills and Experience:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent industry experience.\n4+ years professional software engineering experience.\nExperience with frontend development (Angular and React).\nYou’ve previously worked at a startup or think you’ll enjoy working on many things you’ve never even seen before.\nDemonstrated software architecture and distributed systems experience.\nStrong knowledge of AWS, GCP, or Azure.\nLanguage polyglot (Javascript, PHP, Python, C#, etc.)\nBonus: Prior experience building cybersecurity products.\nBonus: Machine learning experience in a production environment.\n\nAdditional Information\n\nPerks/Benefits:\nDirect access to senior management – our leadership team works alongside our team members every day.\nComprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.\nCompany paid life insurance, short term disability and long term disability.\nFlexible paid time off (PTO) policy, plus sick days.\nOngoing professional development opportunities by level and function.\nYour choice of Windows or Mac laptop.\nOnsite gym.\nCasual dress in a fun, friendly and collaborative work environment.\nThe ability to have significant impact every day.\nLocation:\nThis position is onsite at our office in the Chicago Loop. 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