Software engineer

Job Summary

The real-time retrieval engine for search, feeds, and agents.

About the Role

This is an opportunity to join Shaped in-person as an early employee and make a large impact at a high growth start-up. You will tackle challenging engineering problems with a high degree of autonomy and ownership.

Responsibilities

• Build planet scale distributed systems, optimizing for latency, throughput, and reliability across 1B+ users.
• Shape and evolve ShapedQL: our declarative query language; including semantics, validation, and query planning.
• Own and improve our client SDKs, from API design and ergonomics to versioning, docs, and examples.
• Work directly with the Product and Engineering leadership.
• Write Python and Rust.
• Iterate rapidly to improve Shaped's platform in response to customer needs.

Requirements

• 2+ years experience of professional backend software engineering experience.
• A user-centric and empathetic mentality for building products.
• Strong working knowledge of computer science fundamentals.
• Comfort with leading development of new components of existing systems, and with taking ownership of existing software.
• Track record of learning new concepts quickly.
• Love authoring easy-to-hold and future-proof REST APIs, OpenAPI is a plus.
• Ability to work autonomously & to make pragmatic tradeoffs with an eye towards business outcomes.
• Strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• You can build data processing pipelines that deal with millions of documents per day.
• You have Machine Learning experience.
• Experience implementing data infrastructure.
• Experience on a consumer grade web app frontend, preferably React based.
• Experience with distributed systems/compilers/query planners.
• Experience with Kafka.

Skills

• Python
• Rust

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Expert Healthcare Guidance
• Retirement savings
• Company holidays each year
• Unlimited days for personal time each year
• Flex Commuter Benefits
• Office is fully-stocked with drinks and snacks to fuel your work day.
• Dinner is on us if staying late.

Pay

$120K - $180K

Schedule

Full-time