Project Canary

Software Engineer

Project Canary

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: DenverColoradoUnited States

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Salary

💰 $115,000 - $140,000 per year

About the role

  • Ownership of your work with a team that gives you context and trusts you to execute
  • Close partnership with the engineering team to build features end-to-end, from design through delivery
  • Direct access to senior engineers and product leadership, with fast feedback loops and clear technical guidance
  • The opportunity to write and ship production code with confidence, while leaning on senior engineers for architectural direction when needed
  • Fewer layers between idea and implementation, so your contributions have a clear path to production
  • A collaborative environment where ideas are debated openly, questions are encouraged, and decisions do not get stuck
  • Active participation in technical discussions, with space to learn, contribute, and strengthen your judgment
  • Clear expectations around reliability: meet commitments, flag blockers early, and stay focused on what matters most for the product
  • Room to expand your technical scope and independence as you build experience and demonstrate impact

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience designing and shipping features in production web applications
  • Familiarity with the technologies listed above, you’ve worked with most of them and can ramp up on the rest
  • A trajectory of growing ownership and responsibility over time
  • An eye for design, attention to detail, and the ability to translate mockups into polished, performant UI components
  • Comfortable working in a mid-stage startup where priorities can evolve and documentation is not always perfect
  • Able to self-direct within a sprint and make progress without waiting for every detail to be defined
  • Adaptable when requirements shift, with a practical approach to changing information
  • Motivated by the opportunity to have visible, meaningful impact on the company’s trajectory
  • Able to clearly explain what you are building and why, even when requirements are still taking shape
  • Flags ambiguity early and surfaces tradeoffs rather than guessing silently
  • Gives and receives feedback as a normal part of the work
  • Understands that their code is part of a larger system serving real users
  • Exercises sound judgment about when to move quickly, when to ask questions, and when to escalate risks or blockers
  • Comfortable working across the web stack, from database queries to UI components
  • Able to produce clean, testable, maintainable code without constant oversight
  • Brings hands-on experience that shows you have built and shipped real products
  • Shipping features in a production web application using React, Angular, VueJS, or a comparable front-end framework
  • Building and maintaining RESTful APIs in a modern typed, object-oriented backend language
  • Working with SQL and relational databases, including query structure, data modeling, and basic performance considerations
  • Writing meaningful tests across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers
  • Contributing to automated testing workflows
  • Deploying and supporting applications in AWS
Benefits
  • Salary range: $115,000 - $140,000 annual base
  • Hybrid work environment (3 days/week in Denver office)
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance with low deductibles and premiums paid by company 99% for self and 50% for dependents and/or spouse
  • 401K with company match (no vesting period)
  • Opportunity for equity ownership
  • Student loan assistance
  • Generous culture around time off, including:
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 6 days of sick time per year
  • 11 paid company holidays per year
  • up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave (gender neutral) including adoptions
  • Dog friendly office environment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
production web applicationsReactAngularVueJSRESTful APIsSQLdata modelingunit testingintegration testingend-to-end testing
Soft Skills
ownershipadaptabilityself-directionattention to detailcommunicationfeedbackjudgmentcollaborationproblem-solvingmotivation