Senior Software Engineer

Droplet engineering is a small but mighty team spread across the United States. We collaborate heavily in Slack, pair programming, and code reviews. We work with designers and customer success to understand user problems and build the right thing. We try to have just enough process to limit the chaos but not so much that it keeps us from getting stuff done. We value building the right thing well. We iterate on our product, architecture, and skills to get better at all of them. We communicate kindly and clearly in a safe environment.

We use AI to go faster, build more, reduce toil, and deliver higher-quality stuff to users. We care deeply about using AI well. We stay up to date on new developments in AI-enabled software engineering. We try new things and learn from each other. We invest a lot in building systems that help robots build things the right way. We have a ton of rules, skills, linting, and docs that help guide humans and agents to build things the right way, and are always iterating on that. Our current stack is a mix of Claude Code and Cursor for local development, Cursor Agents and Automations for cloud development and background work (incident investigation, Sentry issue fixing, PR feedback and correction, QA passes, etc), and Devin for code reviews.

React, TypeScript, node.js, Postgres, AWS, GitHub, Terraform, and the power of friendship.

We're describing our perfect candidate. If you're missing some of these but still interested, talk to us anyway!

• You ship great software to users.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• You have five or more years of professional software development experience, with three or more years working with JavaScript and three or more years working with AWS or a comparable cloud environment.
• You are great at AI-enabled software development. You use LLMs responsibly to build great software. You help others get better at this.
• You have experience working across the web stack, from UI to infrastructure. You don't need to be an expert with the whole stack, but you should be productive across it.
• You collaborate well with product and design to understand user needs and produce technical designs that meet those needs.
• You help other engineers get better and get more done with technical leadership.

We try to make our interview process like the job. You'll read some code, write some code, talk about architecture, and share past experiences. We want you to do your best, not stress out about artificial evaluations. Here is how it'll go:

1. We'll send you a take-home coding exercise. Try not to spend more than two hours on it.
2. 15-minute phone screen.
3. One hour interview with Jamison Dance, the head of engineering and hiring manager.
4. One hour interview with Sky Hair, the CTO and co-founder.
5. We check references to make sure you're not three toddlers stacked on top of each other in a trench coat.
6. You come on-site to the office in Lehi, UT, for a day to meet the team and work together a bit.
7. Offer letter!