Job Description

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 Compensation Range: $112.5K – $190K