Software Engineer

About Us

Squint is the Industrial Intelligence Platform, built for the workers who build the things you touch and see every single day. We're the only solution that brings together all the context of an industrial organization into a custom industrial knowledge graph, unique to every customer. Building with AI and AR, that foundation powers the workflows and applications that put the right information in frontline operators' hands on the factory floor and in the field, exactly when and where they need it.

Proven Impact with Industry Leaders

Our technology serves Fortune 500 leaders across manufacturing, field services, and utilities. These companies trust Squint to capture and activate their essential operational know-how, resulting in measurable improvements: reduced downtime, minimized waste, and optimized productivity at scale.

Backed and Built by the Best

We raised a $40m Series B at a $265m valuation and are backed by elite investors including Sequoia Capital, Menlo Ventures, TCV and The Westly Group. Our co-founders have been recognized on Forbes' 30 Under 30 for Manufacturing and Industry, and Fast Company named us one of the most innovative augmented and virtual reality companies of 2026

About the Job

Calling all builders with a need for speed and high ownership. If you want to drive the impact of an early stage-operator while truly working across the entire stack, this is the engineering role for you.

This role is onsite at our San Francisco HQ, Monday–Friday

What Makes This Role Different

• You will be the limit of your impact in this role.

• You’ll drive projects from start to finish: gathering business context, setting direction, listening to customer feedback, iterating quickly, and picking up the skills you need to get the job done.

• You’ll be expected to move at the speed of a startup with outsized ownership, learning, and career growth.

What You’ll Do

• Ship features rapidly, from scratch to customer reality.

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable backend services that form the core of the Squint application platform.

• Drive business outcomes by translating messy, ambiguous problems into high-impact, high-performance solutions.

What You’ll Bring

• 4+ years of professional experience in a hands-on software engineering role (excluding internships)

• A deep curiosity that fuels how you build products from top to bottom.

• A drive to understand the customer, the data, and the impact of your work deeply.

• Strong expertise in backend development, including designing and implementing RESTful APIs, and working with relational databases.

• Experience or strong understanding of cloud platforms (GCP/AWS) for deploying and monitoring application services; you should be comfortable engaging with infrastructure-level challenges that impact the platform's stability and performance.

• A high degree of ownership, owning your work end-to-end and driving everything from what gets built to how it’s sold.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• You'll be on the fast track to unparalleled learning – bringing your ideas to life in partnership with folks across Product, Design, Customer Success, and Sales who have worked at best-in-class early stage companies.

• Your work will impact the real world, and expose you to a level of manufacturing expertise (how the world's largest brands make the products you use every day) that can't be found anywhere else.

• The energy! Your hustle will set the pace for the team and the culture at Squint, and you'll feel it everyday.

Our Tech Stack

• Mobile: Flutter (Dart), Swift, Kotlin

• Web: Typescript, React, Next.js

• Backend: Typescript, Python, GCP, AWS, PostgreSQL

• AI: The right tools for the job (this changes rapidly)

Benefits

Based out of our office in San Francisco, we love the energy of in-person collaboration.

• Competitive Salary and Equity

• Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental care

• Flexible PTO Policy

• Lunch and Dinner Service

• Wellness Benefit

• Maven Family Planning Benefits

• Partnership with Care.com

• Mental Health Services

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit for Parking & Public Transit

• Company-wide Retreats

A Final Note

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Squint is an equal opportunity employer, welcoming applicants from all backgrounds without regard to race, gender, age, or any other protected characteristic.

Ready to redefine the future? Join us at Squint and be a part of something revolutionary.