Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack
Read AI, Inc.6 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of complex, scalable full-stack web applications and distributed systems.
- Set code-quality standards through code reviews, automated testing strategies, and technical documentation.
- Own major product areas end to end, including discovery, system design, deployment, and post-launch optimization.
- Partner with Product and Design to shape the roadmap and ensure technical feasibility and scalability.
- Identify and resolve application performance, database efficiency, and frontend rendering bottlenecks.
- Mentor mid-level and junior engineers and promote engineering best practices.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, observability, and infrastructure-as-code to increase developer velocity.
- Lead technical RFC processes and communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial experience building and scaling production-grade full-stack applications.
- Expert knowledge of React and TypeScript, including state management, performance profiling, and modern CSS strategies.
- Experience designing high-throughput RESTful or GraphQL APIs and microservices with Node.js, Java, or Python.
- Strong experience with AWS or similar cloud providers and SQL and NoSQL database design and optimization.
- Ability to design resilient, observable, and maintainable distributed systems.
- Strong communication skills and experience leading technical RFC processes.
- Preferred: experience deploying or integrating LLMs and AI-driven features into consumer-facing products.
- Preferred: proficiency with Rust and Tauri for high-performance desktop or system-level applications.
- Preferred: experience scaling products from early stage to mass market in a high-growth environment.
- Preferred: strong product sense and ability to make user-focused design trade-offs.
Benefits
- Base pay of $180,000-$220,000 plus equity and benefits.
- Low-deductible health plans.
- Flexible time away and family leave programs.
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About Read AI, Inc.
Read AI builds an AI copilot that summarizes and organizes meetings, emails, and messages for knowledge workers, integrating with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Slack, and other workplace tools. The company sells subscriptions for paid team workspaces on top of a freemium product-led offering. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Seattle, it is privately held and raised a Series B in 2024 from investors including Smash Capital, Madrona, and Goodwater Capital.