Software Engineer, AI Startup: Build Enterprise Features

Compa; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 125,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Equity

Company offsites

Continued education

Commuter benefits

Flexible work environment

Job summary

Compa, a venture-backed AI startup, seeks a Software Engineer to own core systems end-to-end—from data pipelines to the user interface. You will collaborate with product and design to ship features that empower enterprise compensation teams, with autonomy and impact across the stack.

The role emphasizes pragmatic trade-offs, clean code, and scalable architecture in a fast-growing environment. You’ll work across frontend and backend, contribute to architecture decisions, participate in reviews,

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience shipping production software in a collaborative environment
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern web development language or framework
• Comfortable working across the stack or specializing in either frontend or backend
• Proven ability to work autonomously and follow through on commitments
• Pragmatic and thoughtful about trade-offs—focus on outcomes over tools
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Ship production-grade software across Compa’s web app and backend systems
• Build new features and improve existing workflows in collaboration with Product and Design
• Write clean, scalable code and contribute to system architecture decisions
• Participate in code reviews, team rituals, and roadmap discussions
• Solve real problems for enterprise compensation teams—from data pipelines to user experience

Skills

Full-stack development

React

Python

Communication

Autonomy

Tools

AWS

Slack

Notion

Metabase

Linear

vLLM

Job description

Compa, a venture-backed AI startup, seeks a Software Engineer to own core systems end-to-end—from data pipelines to the user interface. You will collaborate with product and design to ship features that empower enterprise compensation teams, with autonomy and impact across the stack.

The role emphasizes pragmatic trade-offs, clean code, and scalable architecture in a fast-growing environment. You’ll work across frontend and backend, contribute to architecture decisions, participate in reviews,