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Senior Software Engineer, Product

Requirements and responsibilities

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About the Role

  • You are a senior software engineer with strong web development (frontend + backend) fundamentals and a track record of owning production systems end-to-end.
  • You care deeply about building reliable software and enjoy working close to real customer problems.
  • You’re comfortable working across frontend, backend, and data layers, and you make deliberate, well-scoped changes.
  • You’ve shipped meaningful user-facing features to production, supported them over time, and improved systems you didn’t originally design.
  • You can turn ambiguous product requirements into clear technical solutions, collaborating effectively with product, design, and other engineers.
  • You write high-quality, well-tested code, debug issues methodically, and help raise the engineering bar through thoughtful feedback and mentorship.

About the Role

  • 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 fundamentalsComponent-based UI design and state managementExperience with an MVC-style web framework (e.g. Django, Flask, or similar)An MVC framework like Django, Flask, or similarUnderstanding of HTTP and browser–server interactions
  • 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
  • Comfort reasoning about non-trivial SQL queries and data correctness
  • Ability to work effectively in a fully remote, async-friendly environment
  • Proactive mindset: you notice problems, propose improvements, and follow through

Details

  • 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

In the first month, you'll:

  • 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

Within the first 3 months, you'll:

  • 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

Within the first 6 months, you'll:

  • 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

Within the first 12 months, you'll:

  • 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

Within the first 12 months, you'll:

  • 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
  • Fully 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
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