Desmos

Senior Software Engineer – Platform

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

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.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • How a healthy engineering culture helps build production-quality software.
  • Lessons you’ve learned from your experiences in prior roles working on SaaS products.
  • 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.
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

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Hard Skills & Tools
TypescriptHTMLCSSPostgresSaaScode reviewdesign implementationuser-facing featuresproduction deploymentexperimentation
Soft Skills
collaborationtechnical leadershipcommunicationonboardingmentorshipproblem-solvingadaptabilityteamworkuser understandingcultural awareness