Sr. Software Engineer

Measurabl; North America; Remote; GBP 104,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing technology startup is seeking an experienced engineer to join their remote team. You will be involved in end-to-end development of web product features and mentor junior engineers. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of web app development experience and a strong knowledge of various technologies including Python and AWS. Competitive compensation based on location, with equity offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building web apps.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers.
• Ability to balance business and engineering considerations.

Responsibilities

• Involved in end-to-end development on features across our web product.
• Mentor junior software engineers.
• Work on API design, devops, frontend, and analytics.

Skills

Web app development

Clean coding

Systems design

Software lifecycle knowledge

Stakeholder interaction

Quick learner

Mentoring

Tools

Python

PostgreSQL

FastAPI

TypeScript

React

AWS

Kubernetes

GPT-4

Job description

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 650k 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, GPT-4

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)