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 900k 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
Job Type: Full-Time
Location: 100% remote
US-based comp range*: $140k-$185k
Latin America-based comp range*: $105k-$140k (USD)
Canada-based comp range*: $125k-$165k (USD)
* Plus equity (cost of living agnostic)
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