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Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Experience

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5 months ago

Base Salary

$265k - $295k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and development of consumer-facing features that improve engagement and student-employer connections
  • Architect and scale distributed systems supporting millions of users with high availability and performance
  • Influence technical direction by partnering with cross-functional teams and aligning engineering work with business goals
  • Mentor and elevate engineers across the team
  • Champion engineering practices that improve product quality and team efficiency

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering large-scale, complex systems
  • Demonstrated staff-level scope and ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams
  • Expertise building and scaling distributed systems, preferably for consumer platforms or social products
  • Strong proficiency in Go, Python, or JavaScript for maintainable production systems
  • Understanding of AWS, Azure, or GCP and modern system design principles
  • Strong communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers and improving engineering culture
  • Extra credit for experience with search, recommendations, ranking systems, personalization, user identity knowledge graphs, entity resolution, real-time inference, AI-powered systems, LLM-based applications, or high-growth environments

Benefits

  • Equity in a fast-growing company
  • 401(k) match, financial coaching, and competitive compensation
  • Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, and parental coaching
  • Medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and a wellness stipend
  • Learning stipend and ongoing development
  • Remote and office support, including internet, commuting benefits, and free lunch and gym access at the San Francisco office
  • Flexible PTO, 15 holidays, and 2 flex days
  • Team outings and referral bonuses
  • Benefits listed apply to full-time US employees