Software Engineer

Summary

Join Kinetic, a company revolutionizing worker's compensation with technology-driven solutions, as a Software Engineer. You will contribute to a wide range of projects, designing, building, and maintaining full-stack serverless software systems, including scalable backend services and AI-powered features. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensuring high-quality, reliable, and scalable software. This role offers broad exposure to product development and the chance to tackle complex challenges in a fast-paced environment. Kinetic is a rapidly growing company with a remote-first culture based in New York City. The position offers competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field and at least 3 years of relevant software engineering experience
• Full-stack development experience in a modern tech stack that includes TypeScript and Python in a cloud environment
• Experience delivering software from concept through production, including CI/CD, monitoring, and operational support
• Proven track-record of building and operating large-scale cloud solutions in production while managing technical debt effectively

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement robust, scalable, and cloud-native software solutions that directly contribute to Kinetic’s mission
• Write clean, efficient, well-tested, and maintainable code in a team environment
• Participate in architecture and code reviews to ensure consistent quality, performance, reliability, and scalability of software systems
• Implement security, reliability, and observability best practices in software design and development
• Proactively identify opportunities for improvement in existing systems and processes
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, emphasizing root cause analysis and post-mortem documentation
• Contribute to projects across the stack—including backend services, internal tools, and AI-powered features—as priorities evolve

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing and deploying AI features in production software, especially those leveraging LLMs or agentic AI patterns
• Experience with AWS, serverless, SQL and no-SQL databases, data lakes, stream & batch processing systems, and IoT
• Strong testing and documentation practices. You can give examples of documentation and testing challenges you have solved in the past and how you would apply those solutions to new environments
• Experience with production security practices in the cloud including building systems that meet enterprise security standards and industry best practices

Benefits

• This is a remote position
• Competitive base salary plus equity
• Choose your OS - employees can choose any computer they prefer
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 20 vacation days per year
• 9 federal holidays off
• Parental Leave
• Pre-tax 401k contribution
• HSA with compatible health plans
• FREE: Health Advocate
• FREE: Telehealth Membership
• FREE: OneMedical Account