Software Developer

Summary

Join Stack Overflow as a full-stack developer and contribute to a cross-disciplinary team building and enhancing features for our popular platform. You will work on projects such as expanding Stack Overflow Internal, developing the OverflowAI toolkit, improving public Q&A and Discussions, and contributing to internal automation efforts. The primary tech stack involves C#, ASP.NET, and Microsoft SQL Server, with supporting technologies like Redis, TypeScript, Svelte, and Elasticsearch. Mentorship is provided for those unfamiliar with the specific tech stack, but enterprise-level experience is expected. Stack Overflow is a remote-first company with a collaborative and inclusive culture, offering numerous benefits and perks.

Requirements

• Strong programming skills in your language of choice (not necessarily ours) and a track record of working collaboratively to deliver alongside your team
• 5+ year(s) of full-stack web development experience with any major server-side stack, relational database, and modern front-end (JS, HTML, CSS)
• 1+ year(s) of experience with containers, k8s, Helm, and Azure
• Experience being agile, where continuous improvement is a fundamental principle to empowering the team to deliver
• Prior experience developing software solutions for companies and/or end users. You've built features and fixed bugs for a commercial product offering before
• Self-motivating, self-directing, and a great communicator (written and oral)
• Willing to bring your expertise to the team through education and pairing in order to raise the skills of everyone
• Excellent problem solving skills. You excel at analyzing and solving problems using technology

Responsibilities

• Develop new and existing features for Stack Overflow
• Support existing Stack Overflow products
• Work on projects such as expanding Stack Overflow Internal, including recent enterprise features like Microsoft Teams personal digests and refined UI/API access control
• Build on the OverflowAI toolkit, including gen-AI-driven search, Slack auto-answer bot, and in-IDE integration to reduce friction and elevate knowledge discovery
• Extend and refine our public Q&A and Discussions, improving how developers engage, explore, and find answers across diverse tags
• Contribute to internal automation efforts - leveraging AI and platform extensions to simplify workflows, improve onboarding, and reduce repetitive tasks
• Work primarily in our main tech stack of C#, ASP.NET, and Microsoft SQL Server, with supporting technologies like Redis, TypeScript, Svelte, and Elasticsearch

Preferred Qualifications

• Some familiarity with AI tools such as Cursor, Claude etc, as well as experience with agentic workflows
• Some UI experience with tools such as Svelte, Typescript etc
• Docker, Kubernetes or experience within a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure etc)
• Experience working remotely and/or working with teams that are distributed geographically
• Experience shipping features in a fast-moving, cross-disciplinary team (Product Managers, Designers, UX Researchers, Product Marketing, etc)
• An active Stack Overflow profile, open source code, example projects that you're proud of (whether open source or worked on at a previous job), or any other evidence of your passion for building great software
• Knowledge of how Stack Overflow works from our blog and podcasts
• Experience with community based applications

Benefits

• Competitive Base Salary
• Generous paid vacation
• Generous parental leave (16 weeks at 100% pay), family care leave, and unlimited sick days
• Equity for all employees at all levels
• Industry-leading health benefits that are applicable per country of residence for all our full-time employees
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Home Internet stipend
• Professional allocation for your growth and development
• One-time allowance to assist with your home office setup
• Company-paid access to Calm, Bravely, LinkedIn Learning, MyAcademy and Overdrive