Senior Software Engineer, Product

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Product to design, build, ship, and own end-to-end product features used by thousands of developers and hundreds of millions of end-users. This role is product-focused, but deeply technical. You’ll work across frontend, backend, and data boundaries, making thoughtful tradeoffs to deliver reliable, high-quality systems. You’ll be expected to take ownership from problem definition through production rollout and long-term maintenance.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with ownership of production systems
• Strong engineering fundamentals: data modeling, debugging, code structure, and testing
• Strong web development fundamentals, including: HTML, CSS and JavaScript fundamentals, component-based UI design and state management
• Experience with an MVC-style web framework (e.g. Django, Flask, or similar)
• An MVC framework like Django, Flask, or similar
• Understanding of HTTP and browser–server interactions
• Experience building and shipping user-facing web applications
• Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, or similar), however the interview process will be in React, so brush up on that
• Ability to reason about non-trivial SQL queries and data correctness
• Comfortable working effectively in a fully remote, async-friendly environment
• Proactive mindset: you notice problems, propose improvements, and follow through

What you'll do

• Meet frequently with your team and manager to get up to speed
• Familiarize yourself with our tools, processes, and core subscription business concepts
• Complete a First Ship project
• Jump in early: fix some bugs, ship small improvements and weigh in on PRs
• Have shipped a medium-sized project successfully
• Understand the main product areas owned by your team and how they work end-to-end
• Be able to scope and work on projects self-sufficiently from idea to improvements post-launch
• Actively participate in code reviews, bug bashes and technical discussions of your team
• Continuously improve areas of the codebase and product of your team
• Become the go-to engineer for certain focus areas
• Proactively contribute to architecture direction discussions that impact not just your team
• Debug issues across frontend/backend/data, communicate clearly during incidents, and drive fixes that prevent repeats
• Engage with customers
• Mentor other engineers joining the team and raise the bar through feedback and guidance
• Know all the major components of our system and be able to debug complex issues
• Be able to spec and architect large projects, gather feedback and design validation and rollout plans
• Lead your own initiatives for improving our product and system, understanding the current issues and priorities

Technologies you’ll likely work with

• TypeScript
• React
• PostgreSQL
• Python
• Flask
• AWS hosted systems following best practices of deployment, monitoring and reliability

What we offer

• Competitive equity in a fast-growing, Series C startup backed by top-tier investors, including Y Combinator
• 10-year window to exercise vested equity options
• Full remote and flexible work environment
• 4-5 weeks of suggested time off annually for mental, physical, and emotional recharge
• $2,000 USD for workspace setup and $1,000 USD annual stipend for continuous learning
• Career growth opportunities
• Flexible compensation range: $230K