Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join User Interviews as a Senior Full-Stack Engineer and lead or significantly contribute to project planning and delivery. This full-stack role emphasizes backend engineering, databases, data modeling, and API design, shaping the team's technical strategy. While backend-focused, you'll also handle frontend tasks as needed. You'll collaborate with PMs, designers, data scientists, and UX researchers throughout the product lifecycle, co-creating project scope. Contribute to technical guilds, become a subject matter expert, improve team processes, and mentor other engineers. The role requires 4-7 years of full-stack experience, including at least one year with Rails and React on large web applications. The company offers competitive compensation, benefits, and a fully remote work environment.

Requirements

• Anywhere from 4-7 years of industry experience as a full stack engineer
• At least 1 year of experience with Rails is required (it’s fine if you’re newer to Rails, but you should have a depth of experience with other backend / server-side frameworks)
• At least 1 year of experience working on a large, complex webapp in production with React
• Experience designing and leading large technical projects for engineering teams to work on
• Candidates must be located in the United States and authorized to work without any Visa sponsorship

Responsibilities

• Lead or play a key contributing role to planning and delivery of projects
• Shape the technical strategy of the team with your expertise in backend engineering, databases, data model and API design
• Ship product, and that occasionally involves moderate or even complex frontend work
• Drive the technical planning and delivery (including testing, QA and release)
• Work cross functionally with our PMs, PDs, data scientists and UXR
• Get involved in helping define user requirements, offering feedback on designs, and looking at user research studies
• Co-create and shape the scope (both product and technical) for the projects we take on with your product counterparts
• Contribute to our technical guilds (where React and Rails best practices are discussed)
• Pick up areas of expertise where you become a subject matter expert (e.g. owning our db migration best practices)
• Help improve team processes
• Mentor and level up other engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong industry experience which can be added to our knowledge base
• Ability to learn quickly and adjust based on new requirements and direction
• A desire to influence the product in a meaningful way
• Curiosity to constantly learn new better ways to build software
• An interest in helping other engineers on the team learn and grow

Benefits

• Total Comp (base salary + performance bonus): $150k - $170k/year (based on seniority of hire)
• Stock options for every employee
• 100% premium covered medical + dental employee coverage
• Annual membership to One Medical Group & Talkspace
• 401k + annual employer contribution
• 4 weeks of PTO to start + accrue an additional day per year of employment
• Unlimited wellness days - Sick? Doctors appointment? Mental health day? We’ve got you covered
• Flexible, paid parental leave
• $250 Office setup budget
• $50/month Work From Home stipend
• $250 Annual learning & development stipend
• Performance-based incentive plans
• Awards for 360-degree recognition, work anniversaries, & birthdays
• Annual company retreat
• Weekly engineering brunch and learns to discuss what we're working on or learning in and outside of the workplace