Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs and high-quality frontend applications.
• Partner with product managers and designers to define requirements and deliver customer-focused features.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code; participate in code reviews and technical design discussions.
• Build automated tests, monitor system performance, and troubleshoot production issues.
• Contribute to coding and architecture decisions that support reliability, security, and scalability.
• Mentor and support teammates through reviews, guidance, and shared technical standards.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of software engineering experience and a record of shipping production systems or features.
• Experience building backend services using relational databases such as MySQL and working with microservices or service-oriented architectures.
• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frontend frameworks or libraries.
• Solid system design, coding, and testing skills across frontend and backend.
• Ability to collaborate with product, design, and engineering partners.
• Experience mentoring or supporting other engineers.
• Comfort working across product, operations, and data teams on end-to-end solutions.

Compensation

• Compensation range is $190,800–$262,800.
• Additional equity and/or commission may depend on the position offered; pay depends on scope, experience, skills, and location.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).

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