Job Url: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/UpCodes/0df472ac-6cc1-4b89-8af1-890bdef2a327?utm_source=Otta

Job Description: Sr. Software Engineer
Location
North America, South America

Employment Type
Full time

Location Type
Remote

Department
Engineering

Compensation
United States
$150K – $190K • Offers Equity
Canada
$135K – $171K • USD • Offers Equity
LatAm
$112K – $142.5K • USD • Offers Equity
Our salary ranges are designed to be competitive within our industry and company size. Our compensation philosophy is built on transparency, ensuring that experience and expertise are rewarded fairly while going beyond base salary to include equity, benefits, perks, and opportunities for growth. Pay decisions are made at the time of an offer, considering qualifications, experience, skills, location, and internal pay equity. We expect candidates to be offered a salary within our established ranges.

Overview
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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 800k 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, OpenAI

 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

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