Gracely is hiring a
Senior Founding Engineer

📍 Athens, Greece

👤 Role Type: Full-time

💡 Desired Skills:

Full StackVueNode JSMongoDBDockerAWSGitAnalyticsAISQL

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