Software Engineer

Relevant Experience:

• 2-4 years of experience software engineering, preferably at a seed, Series A, or Series B company
• Well-versed in at least one modern engineering framework, and has showed aptitude to pick up new frameworks quickly
• Our stack is React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Node, JavaScript / TypeScript

Success Profile:

• Self-starter and fast learner
• Sharp at problem solving, critical thinking, and systems thinking
• Proactive communicator, both verbal and written, around technical decisions and project deadlines
• Primarily motivated to deliver high impact solutions to users rather than by using the latest coolest technologies
• Biased towards action and speed of delivery rather than quality
• Hungry to accelerate professional and personal growth

• Searchlight is creating a new category of data-driven hiring, focused on data infrastructure that closes the loop between recruiting and post-hire outcomes.
• Fresh funding from top-tier investors like YC, Accel, and Founders Fund
• Fast-growing team tackling an initial $140B market opportunity with a category-defining product
• 77 NPS with customers like Zapier, Udemy, Coinbase, and Upstart
• Women-led and mission-driven company, founders are Forbes 30U30 with backgrounds from Stanford, Uber, Google, and McKinsey
• Opportunity for meaningful ownership, leadership, and autonomy

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We are looking for a teammate we can count on to:

• Given an initial design and technical plan, consistently deliver an end-to-end new product feature
• Collaborate with other engineers to scope product requirements and write technical specifications
• Be shockingly efficient and results-driven to deliver software improvements to our users
• Produce high-quality, production-ready, readable, maintainable code, * Ship your first commit on day one
• Take on 1-2 small tickets to address bugs or make minor improvements. These will have both front-end and back-end components to help you gain familiarity with our codebase
• Have 1:1s with everyone on the team
• Go through a product orientation to get familiar with the different pieces of our platform

Within 1 month you’ll…

• Ship your first major project, which will involve scoping, writing the technical plan (ERD) with your onboarding buddy, submitting your ERD for team review, creating Jira tickets + estimates, writing unit tests, creating incremental pull requests, requesting code review, and finally - deploy!
• Participate in code reviews for other members of the team
• Shadow a few customer and partner meetings every week

Within 6 months you’ll…

• Work with the engineering team to scope and ship products
• Help us grow our team by mentoring new engineers, writing internal tooling and documentation, and interviewing new hires

Logistics:

• We are a hybrid team located across several states
• Our EPD team works 3x-a-week from our Jackson Square SF office
• We work synchronously in PDT hours
• Weekly team dinners (remote) sponsored by the company
• Competitive salary, Significant Equity
• 401(k), Unlimited PTO, Health Insurance (100% paid premiums)