Sr. Software Engineer

THE ROLE

As a foundational member of our engineering team, you'll be involved in end-to-end development on features across our web product.

We have a frequent cadence of shipping new features and a close connection to our market.  With 800k monthly active users spending hundreds of thousands of hours on the platform, each contribution and feature you ship will have a meaningful impact for the users.

Since we're a startup, you'll have to be willing to get your hands dirty with (and learn) everything across the stack: API design, devops, frontend, data engineering, algorithms, AI, startup engineering, analytics, etc.  You'll also mentor junior software engineers.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

• 5+ years of experience building web apps

• Clean simple code, even when solving complex problems

• Good systems design and architecture knowledge

• Good knowledge of the software life cycle, including code reviews, testing, team organization

• Ability to balance business concerns with engineering considerations

• Ability to learn new tech quickly

• Experience mentoring junior engineers

• Experience interacting with multiple stakeholders

• Enjoyable to work with

TECHNOLOGY STACK

• Python, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Redis, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Pinecone, OpenAI

 EXAMPLE PROJECTS

• Craft plan to measure and improve our search engine

• Improve and migrate our data model for the content we host

• Migrate our NLP algorithms over to use LLMs

• Do thorough, prompt code reviews

• Implement developer tools to help with code quality