Senior Software Engineer
About the Role
You will design and build scalable, high-performance systems across the stack. You will write clean, maintainable code with an emphasis on simplicity, testing, and benchmarking, and you will optimize low-level details for performance. You will own core subsystems, author technical feature and protocol RFCs, participate in design and code reviews, and contribute to open-source projects.
Requirements
- Experience developing reliable and easy to understand software on a team
- Track record of building and maintaining large systems in modern C++ or Rust
- Understanding of low-level details and ability to write high-performance code
- Enthusiasm for working on a small growing team with significant autonomy
- Open and empathetic collaboration skills
- BS MS or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent field (nice to have)
- Experience in computer networks distributed systems databases or operating systems research (nice to have)
- Open-source project creation or contribution (nice to have)
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable high-performance systems
- Work in a fast-paced startup-like environment
- Write clean maintainable code with emphasis on simplicity testing and benchmarking
- Own core subsystems and help hit critical product milestones
- Collaborate on code review and design and contribute to best practices
- Author detailed technical feature and protocol RFC specifications
- Contribute to open-source software
Benefits
- Token-denominated grants
- Competitive health dental and vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee and dependants
- Flexible time off and 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break
- Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing and birthing parents and up to 14 weeks of paid pregnancy leave for birthing parents
- Gym reimbursement of $80 per month
- Life and AD&D insurance up to $50,000
- Short and long term disability
- 401K with 4% employer match
- Health and Dependent Care FSA accounts
- Commuter benefits with $250 per month employer contribution
- Health Savings Account with monthly employer contribution
- Family building benefits through Kindbody
- Wellbeing benefits including One Medical Rightway and Headspace
- Learning and development budget of $1,500 per year
- Daily lunch and snacks in office
- Company retreats