(Full Time) Founding Software Engineer at Simplify Jobs (United States)
Founding Software Engineer
Simplify Jobs United States
Date Posted: 09 May, 2023
Work Location: San Francisco, United States
Salary Offered: $90000 — $150000 yearly
Job Type: Full Time
Experience Required: 6+ years
Remote Work: Yes
Stock Options: Yes
Vacancies: 1 available
Who we are
At Simplify, we're working to democratize access to recruiting, no matter what your background is, where you live or what school you attended, and to make recruiting simple, transparent and fair. We’re taking a candidate-first approach to recruiting that we think will allow us to become the largest recruiting platform for the tech industry within 5 years. Hundreds of thousands of users trust Simplify to power their recruiting process, and our platform has facilitated over 5 million job applications in the last year. Simplify recently raised a new round of funding led by Craft Ventures with participation from all-star angels (TBA), and was part of YCombinator's Winter 2021 batch.
We are looking for a founding engineer, experienced in full-stack (backend-heavy) development, who wants to have an impact on helping people find the job that speaks to them: You will join a well-funded, seed-stage startup and work closely with the founders on how we build and scale the company.
Requirements
- Full-stack expert with 5+ years of software development experience (we don't believe in YOE = talent levels; if you feel qualified, please apply anyway)
- Proficient in React, Next.js, Typescript, FastAPI/Flask, Python
- Experienced in working on a code base at scale and complex backend infrastructures
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform and building 3rd party integrations
- Passionate about unlocking equitable access to recruiting and career building
- Extreme sense of ownership, challenging the status quo, and raising the bar
- Effective collaborator with strong communication skills
- Empathy for customers and strong team spirit in a small, fast-moving, and close-knit team
Responsibilities
- Shape engineering culture and values as an early employee
- Own architectural decisions and technical build-out as the company scales
- Build user-facing features and improve performance and reliability of our frontend and chrome extension
- Improve backend systems and build endpoints for application logic
- Work on Simplify's candidate and recruiter platforms to improve job matching and build meaningful features
- Work on all parts of the system, including backend, dev-ops, database, frontend, and more
- Lead engineering best practices and technology decisions and hire/manage an engineering team
Desirable
- Prior experience in an early-stage or ed-tech/hr-tech startup is a plus
About Simplify Jobs
A common application for jobs & internships.
Company Size: 1 - 5 People
Year Founded: 2020
Country: United States
Company Status: Actively Hiring
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