Full-Time

Founding Software Engineer

Posted on 5/11/2023

Simplify

Simplify

1-10 employees

Helping a billion people build their dream career

No salary listed

Company Does Not Provide H1B Sponsorship

Remote in USA + 1 more

More locations: San Francisco, CA, USA

Category
Software Engineering
Required Skills
Python
React.js
TypeScript
Next.js
Flask
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 anyways)
  • 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, as well as working at an early-stage startup
  • 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.
Desired Qualifications
  • Prior experience in an early-stage or ed-tech/hr-tech startup is a plus
  • Prior experience in data and analytics

Simplify is building the AI-enabled infrastructure to power the next generation of hiring – reimagining how people discover and secure their next career opportunity. We believe that everyone deserves an all-star talent agent helping them plan, manage, and accomplish their career goals, no matter their background, location, or education. Through our flagship product, Copilot, we've helped over 1M+ job seekers discover and apply to over 100 million jobs - and we've done this with a tight-knit team of just 7 people. We're rapidly expanding on both the candidate and recruiter fronts, focused on our vision of building a common app and personal AI agent for your career. Backed by top-tier investors including Craft and YCombinator, we're a mission-driven team working to democratize the job search and disrupt the way hiring works today.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$3.2M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2020

Your Connections

People at Simplify who can refer or advise you

Benefits

Home office stipend

Company lunch

Fitness stipend

Pet-friendly

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