Halo is hiring a
Software Engineer

Summary

Join our team at Halo, a platform connecting scientists with companies to bring new innovations to the world. We're looking for a Software Engineer to help grow the platform from early-stage product/market fit to massive scale.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience writing software using Ruby on Rails AND React and strong engineering background
• A love of simple, well-tested code that is easy to extend and hard to break
• The ability to convey technical ideas in common terms to business partners, product managers, designers, and engineers alike
• Understanding of performance tradeoffs, load balancing, and operational issues
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operations
• Proven ability to handle ambiguity and competing priorities, managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• A willingness to wear different hats that are related but adjacent to your core role
• A passion for product development and an eagerness to learn and grow within a dynamic startup environment
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to work cross-functionally and communicate with both technical and non-technical team members

Responsibilities

• Build new features
• Instrument those features and report on their impact
• Improve our product development cycle
• Work alongside self-starters interested in solving real-world problems and streamlining the inefficiencies of external partnering for Fortune 500 companies
• Take point on complex product initiatives, decompose them into smaller pieces, and run them to completion with minimal supervision
• Design flexible, maintainable code to execute against the vision and roadmap
• Safeguard code quality on your team, reviewing others' code with an eye to performance and maintainability
• Work closely with designers and product managers to distill complex business problems into elegant technical solutions
• Collaborate with a close-knit engineering team that ships new code into production multiple times a week

Preferred Qualifications

• You have a science-related degree or industry experience in science or health
• You have worked for companies with products like applicant tracking systems, b2b marketplaces, CRMs, or project management tool
• You've been an instrumental player on an early startup team before

Benefits

• Share in the upside. Early employees have an outsized impact on a startup’s success. It’s only fair that you receive meaningful equity in return
• Donate to research. Make a donation to scientific research you care about and we’ll match your donation dollar-for-dollar
• Volunteer for research. Participate in a research study through ResearchMatch, a nonprofit funded by the NIH, and get a $200 bonus check
• Stay healthy. We don’t ever want your health to be a source of stress and offer top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Escape for the Winter. From December to March, Halo will fly you anywhere in the country to escape the cold and get some Vitamin D