Backend Software Engineer – Multiple Openings

Common Room; United States; On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base compensation with equity ownership

Health insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Work from home support

Monthly Remote Stipend

Job summary

Madrona Venture Labs is seeking a Software Engineer to develop efficient systems and APIs as part of a dynamic, growing team. The role can be performed remotely from anywhere in the U.S. Ideal candidates should have a BS in Computer Engineering and 2 years of experience in software development, especially in TypeScript, React, and AWS.

The position offers competitive compensation, health benefits, and unlimited paid time off, ensuring a supportive work environment that values both personal and professional growth.

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience as a Software Engineer or similar.
• Experience in designing and maintaining software systems.
• Ability to write clean and efficient code.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain APIs and codebase.
• Create software validation procedures.
• Ensure system efficiency and reliability.

Skills

Software development

Problem-solving

TypeScript

React

AWS

Data management

Education

BS Degree in Computer Engineering or related field

Tools

Postgres

MongoDB

Docker

Redis

Job description

About us

Common Room is the AI GTM Platform that empowers your teams with AI agents built on complete buyer intelligence. We unify every signal across the full buyer journey into one continuously‑updated, person‑level view—so your team knows exactly who to target and why, what to say, and when to reach out. GTM teams are drowning in tool sprawl, fragmented data, and AI that doesn't deliver. Common Room replaces your disconnected stack with one platform built for scale and complexity. We bring together data, orchestration, and execution in one system built for orgs of 75‑1000+.

We've raised over $50 million from top‑tier investors including Greylock, Index, and Madrona, and we're backed by 25+ operators from companies like Figma, Stripe, Airtable, Slack, Notion, Loom, and more.

Job Duties

• Develop infrastructure, data models, features, and overall system to build APIs and maintain the codebase to resolve customer issues.
• Write well designed, testable code ensuring systems are efficient, optimized, scalable and reliable.
• Develop software testing and validation procedures and documentation.
• Ensure Common Room’s core internal capabilities, infrastructure, and ML systems serve the needs of customers and our team.
• Analyze, problem‑solve, and design systems, and simple, elegant solutions while considering observability, SLA and scalability.
• Maintain relational database applications.
• Utilize tools including AWS, Postgres, and Node.
• Utilize data technologies including Redshift, MongoDB, Docker, Redis, React and TypeScript.
• Work with software development lifecycle and teammates in an agile planning environment.
• Identify and participate in company‑building initiatives.

HQ Seattle; Work remotely from any location in the U.S.

Requirements

BS Degree in Computer Engineering or a related degree plus 2 years of experience as a Software Engineer or a related position. Experience must include:

• Designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software systems and features.
• Modifying existing software to correct errors and enhance performance.
• Writing clean, efficient, and testable code.
• Managing data storage, retrieval, and manipulation to evaluate software capabilities.
• Tools including Typescript, React, Amazon Web Services, and Generative AI.
• Performance optimization and improved scalability and reliability.
• Maintaining relational database applications, utilizing relational and non‑relational data structures.

HQ Seattle; Work remotely from any location in the U.S.

Our values

• Be Customer‑centric – We work backwards from the needs of our customers. The crisp articulation of customer value guides our decisions.
• Strive for Simplicity – We choose simplicity over complexity whenever possible. We seek to identify and understand the essential quality of what we are building.
• Make it Happen – We are quick to take the first step, and prioritize decisiveness over fear of making a mistake. We don’t confuse motion for movement and we measure ourselves on impact over actions.
• We’re In this Together – We measure personal success by the success of our customers and teammates. Relationships matter, and the strongest ones are built on the foundations of trust, enablement, and transparency.

Our benefits

• Competitive base compensation with meaningful equity ownership
• Health insurance including medical, dental, and vision, HSA and FSA
• We pay 100% of your employee premium and 50% of your premium for any dependents
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Paid Company Holidays
• Work from home policy including a laptop and support for your home office needs
• Monthly Remote Stipend
• 401(k) self contribution
• Paid Family Leave
• Opportunity to join a diverse, passionate, and fun team at a pivotal time in the company’s lifecycle

Common Room provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.