
Senior Software Engineer – Tools
Desmos
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $155,000 - $170,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Introduce yourself on Slack to your new co-workers!
- Learn about our process for writing, testing, and deploying code.
- Ship your first piece of code to production!
- Familiarize yourself with Typescript and our in-house, front-end framework.
- Complete your first user-facing feature in collaboration with other teams (product, design, business).
- Start reviewing code from other engineers on the team, bringing your keen eye for pragmatic and elegant solutions to challenging problems.
- Be the technical lead on your first project, guiding it from design to implementation.
- Participate in experimentation and review data to help inform product features
- Get to know our users and better understand the role that Desmos plays inside and outside of the classroom.
- Help the team enter a promising new market outside of K-12 education.
- Become the company’s expert on one or more areas of the code base.
- Help hire and onboard new members of the engineering team.
- Take a vacation to recharge. We do our best work when we’re happy and well-rested.
Requirements
- How a healthy engineering culture helps build production-quality software.
- Lessons you’ve learned from your experiences in prior roles and other math tools that you’ve used.
- Design decisions in a project you led, including alternatives and trade-offs you made.
- Comfort with jumping into multiple areas of a codebase, such as Typescript, Postgres, and HTML/CSS.
- Your favorite mathematical topic.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation. Every full-time member of the team receives generous stock and salary compensation as well as a 401(k) match of up to 5% of annual salary.
- Great benefits. We offer medical, vision, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance. We also offer Medical and Dependent Care FSAs, at least 22 full-company holidays, a company donation match, and more!
- Flexible hours. We’re a fully remote team, and everyone sets their own hours.
- Work-life balance. We value results over hours and sustainable, long-term success over short-term wins.
- Ownership and influence. As a member of a small team with few external stakeholders, each person here plays a major role in defining our policies, goals, culture, and benefits.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
TypescriptHTMLCSSPostgrescode reviewuser-facing featuresdesign implementationproduction deploymentpragmatic solutionselegant solutions
Soft Skills
collaborationtechnical leadershipproblem-solvingcommunicationmentorshipadaptabilityuser understandingteamworkcultural awarenesscreativity