Sr. Software Engineer
Apply NowCompany: UpCodes
Location: Des Moines, IA 50380
Description:
THE ROLE
As a foundational member of our engineering team, you'll be involved in end-to-end development on features across our web product.
We have a frequent cadence of shipping new features and a close connection to our market. With 900k monthly active users spending hundreds of thousands of hours on the platform, each contribution and feature you ship will have a meaningful impact for the users.
Since we're a startup, you'll have to be willing to get your hands dirty with (and learn) everything across the stack: API design, devops, frontend, data engineering, algorithms, AI, startup engineering, analytics, etc. You'll also mentor junior software engineers.
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
TECHNOLOGY STACK
EXAMPLE PROJECTS
Job Type: Full-Time
Location: 100% remote
US-based comp range*: $140k-$185k
Latin America-based comp range*: $105k-$140k (USD)
Canada-based comp range*: $125k-$165k (USD)
* Plus equity (cost of living agnostic)
As a foundational member of our engineering team, you'll be involved in end-to-end development on features across our web product.
We have a frequent cadence of shipping new features and a close connection to our market. With 900k monthly active users spending hundreds of thousands of hours on the platform, each contribution and feature you ship will have a meaningful impact for the users.
Since we're a startup, you'll have to be willing to get your hands dirty with (and learn) everything across the stack: API design, devops, frontend, data engineering, algorithms, AI, startup engineering, analytics, etc. You'll also mentor junior software engineers.
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
- 5+ years of experience building web apps
- Clean simple code, even when solving complex problems
- Good systems design and architecture knowledge
- Good knowledge of the software life cycle, including code reviews, testing, team organization
- Ability to balance business concerns with engineering considerations
- Ability to learn new tech quickly
- Experience mentoring junior engineers
- Experience interacting with multiple stakeholders
- Enjoyable to work with
TECHNOLOGY STACK
- Python, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Redis, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Pinecone, OpenAI
EXAMPLE PROJECTS
- Craft plan to measure and improve our search engine
- Improve and migrate our data model for the content we host
- Migrate our NLP algorithms over to use LLMs
- Do thorough, prompt code reviews
- Implement developer tools to help with code quality
Job Type: Full-Time
Location: 100% remote
US-based comp range*: $140k-$185k
Latin America-based comp range*: $105k-$140k (USD)
Canada-based comp range*: $125k-$165k (USD)
* Plus equity (cost of living agnostic)