Generalist Engineer

Orthogonal

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

34 hours ago

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Job summary

Orthogonal in San Francisco is hiring a generalist engineer to work across the product and platform. You will build user-facing features, backend services, API integrations, and internal tools based on what the team needs most. You’ll work directly with the founders and users.

This is a full-time, in-person role in San Francisco, reporting to the Founders and joining a small, collaborative team.

Qualifications

3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Experience shipping software across more than one part of the stack.
Comfortable learning unfamiliar systems and tools.
Strong foundation in software engineering and computer science.
Experience with APIs, databases, and modern web applications.
Able to take an ambiguous problem from investigation through production.
Comfortable working closely with a small team and changing priorities.

Responsibilities

Build features across Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Postgres.
Add and maintain third-party API integrations.
Work on product interfaces, backend services, and internal tools.
Debug problems across the stack and improve reliability.
Talk with users and turn their feedback into product changes.
Help decide what to build and how to build it.

Skills

3+ years experience

Full-stack experience

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Tools

Next.js

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Postgres

Job description

We're hiring a generalist engineer to work across the product and platform. You'll build user-facing features, backend services, API integrations, and internal tools based on what the team needs most. You'll work directly with the founders and users. This is a full-time, in-person role in San Francisco.

What you'll do