Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Summary

Join Laurel, a company on a mission to revolutionize how we measure and perform work by automating timekeeping and leveraging AI. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining our backend applications. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, optimize our systems, and innovate to enhance our products. This is a hybrid role with opportunities for remote work in the US and Canada. Laurel offers competitive compensation, generous equity, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience: 4+ years of professional experience in Backend Software development. Full Stack knowledge is a plus. Ideal candidates will have a solid understanding of modern web technologies and be comfortable working with large-scale data systems
• Backend: Required: Strong understanding of Typescript, Node.js, messaging queues (ie. AWS SQS), MongoDB
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think critically and creatively. Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities
• Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
• Customer Mindset: Proven ability to engage with customers and understand their needs

Responsibilities

• Develop: Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and extremely reliable code across our backend components of our applications
• Collaborate: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to gather requirements, define technical specifications and measures of success, and deliver high-quality software solutions
• Optimize: Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to mitigate and address these issues. Continuously improve performance, scalability, and security of our applications
• Innovate: Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, and proactively suggest improvements and new features to enhance our products
• Test and Deploy: Implement automated testing and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure robust and reliable software releases
• Work with Product and Customer Success teams to flesh out business requirements and designs for those requirements and systems
• Participate in an on call rotation
• Connect: We want you not just to build but to engage with our product and our users. Your input and opinion will be highly valuable and it is expected that you have many thoughts on how things should be done and why

Preferred Qualifications

• Nice to have: Experience with Python (Django, FastAPI, or Flask). Familiarity with Airflow, PostgreSQL and NestJS
• Domain Knowledge: Experience in AI is preferred

Benefits

• Competitive salary, generous equity, comprehensive medical/dental/vision coverage with covered premiums, 401(k), additional benefits including wellness/commuter benefit stipends
• For candidates located in New York and California, the range for this role is $151,000 -- $197,000 USD
• What happens if my kid or I are sick on a workday ? Take all the time you need! We’ll cover for you. And send you some soup