Software Engineer II

Role overview

You will be a Software Engineer II at Captura, delivering features independently for the Yearbook product suite—including SSY (school and studio yearbooks) and Memento. You’ll work across a modern Vue.js + Node.js stack, partnering with senior engineers, product managers, and designers to ship reliable, well-tested code.

Responsibilities

• Deliver end-to-end features across the Yearbook suite, with minimal guidance
• Build user-facing interfaces using Vue.js and supporting UI libraries
• Develop and maintain Node.js services and APIs for yearbook workflows (ordering, image handling)
• Break product requirements into well-scoped engineering tasks and reasonable estimates
• Communicate proactively on progress, risks, and blockers
• Contribute to product discussions by surfacing edge cases, constraints, and user impact

Code quality & engineering practices

• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code following team standards
• Implement unit, integration, and end-to-end tests as appropriate
• Participate actively in code reviews (giving and receiving feedback)
• Follow established practices for security, error handling, logging, and performance
• Refactor to reduce complexity and improve maintainability
• Keep documentation, runbooks, and onboarding materials current

Collaboration & communication

• Partner with product managers and designers to clarify requirements and shape solutions
• Learn through senior engineer design discussions and code reviews
• Communicate clearly via PRs, tickets, and design docs and in meetings
• Participate in sprint planning, retrospectives, and related ceremonies
• Collaborate with QA on test plans, bug triage, and quality improvements
• Engage with Customer Success/Support to reproduce and understand customer issues

Operations & production support

• Participate in on-call rotations (with ramp-up) for Yearbook products
• Debug production issues across:
  • SSY (Heroku)
  • Memento (AWS)
• Use observability tools to monitor health and respond to alerts
• Follow runbooks for routine operations and incident response
• Contribute to post-mortems and help prevent recurrence
• Improve operational tooling and automation when opportunities arise

Learning and growth

• Deepen expertise in Vue.js and Node.js and increase understanding of how the systems fit together
• Begin contributing to technical decisions within the team