Searchlight
Software Engineer
Searchlight, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
[Full Time] Software Engineer at Searchlight (United States)
Software EngineerSearchlight United States
Date Posted: 31 Oct, 2022
Work Location: San Francisco, United States
Salary Offered: Not Specified
Job Type: Full Time
Experience Required: No experience required
Remote Work: Yes
Vacancies: 1 available
Why Searchlight?
Searchlight is creating a new category of data-driven hiring, focused on data infrastructure that closes the loop between recruiting and post-hire outcomes.
Fresh funding from top-tier investors like YC, Accel, and Founders Fund.
Fast-growing team tackling an initial $140B market opportunity with a category-defining product.
77 NPS with customers like Zapier, Udemy, and Coda.
Women-led and mission-driven company, founders are Forbes 30U30 with backgrounds from Stanford, Uber, Google, and McKinsey.
Opportunity for meaningful ownership, leadership, and autonomy.
We are looking for a teammate we can count on to:
Given an initial design and technical plan, consistently deliver an end-to-end new product feature.
Collaborate with more senior members of the team to scope product requirements and write technical specifications.
Be shockingly efficient and results-driven to deliver software improvements to our users.
Produce high-quality, production-ready, readable, maintainable code.
Relevant Experience:
2-4 years of experience software engineering, preferably at a seed, Series A, or Series B company.
Well-versed in at least one modern engineering framework, and has showed aptitude to pick up new frameworks quickly.
Our stack is React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Node, JavaScript / TypeScript.
Success Profile:
Self-starter and fast learner.
Sharp at problem solving, critical thinking, and systems thinking.
Proactive communicator, both verbal and written, around technical decisions and project deadlines.
Primarily motivated to deliver high impact solutions to users rather than by using the latest coolest technologies.
Biased towards action and speed of delivery rather than quality.
Hiring Process:
Initial Screen (30 min)
First Round Interview (1 hour)
Final Technical Interview (3 hrs)
Searchlight References
Final Team Interviews (3 hrs)
Within 1 week you’ll...
Onboard with our team.
Ship your first commit on day one.
Take on 1-2 small tickets to address bugs or make minor improvements.
Have 1:1s with everyone on the team.
Go through a product orientation to get familiar with the different pieces of our platform.
Within 1 month you'll...
Ship your first major project, which will involve scoping, writing the technical plan (ERD) with your onboarding buddy, submitting your ERD for team review, creating Jira tickets + estimates, writing unit tests, creating incremental pull requests, requesting code review, and finally - deploy!
Participate in code reviews for other members of the team.
Shadow a few customer and partner meetings every week.
Within 6 months you'll...
Work with the engineering team to scope and ship products.
Help us grow our team by mentoring new engineers, writing internal tooling and documentation, and interviewing new hires.
Logistics:
Remote through Sep 2021.
Located out of the San Francisco, CA office beyond Sep 2021 with hybrid in-person and remote work.
Weekly team dinners (remote) sponsored by the company.
Salary range $120-140k.
Significant Equity.
401(k), Unlimited PTO, Health Insurance (100% paid premiums).
Diverse and Inclusive EmployerWe’re committed to providing equal treatment and opportunity to all applicants at every stage of the hiring cycle and throughout their life at the company.
Note: If you don’t match 100% of the job qualifications but think you’d be a great fit, we encourage you to apply!
About SearchlightCompanies with the best talent win. But the way that companies hire hasn’t changed in decades. Searchlight's full-cycle talent platform gives companies the right data and infrastructure to assess candidates and scale winning cultures.
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Software EngineerSearchlight United States
Date Posted: 31 Oct, 2022
Work Location: San Francisco, United States
Salary Offered: Not Specified
Job Type: Full Time
Experience Required: No experience required
Remote Work: Yes
Vacancies: 1 available
Why Searchlight?
Searchlight is creating a new category of data-driven hiring, focused on data infrastructure that closes the loop between recruiting and post-hire outcomes.
Fresh funding from top-tier investors like YC, Accel, and Founders Fund.
Fast-growing team tackling an initial $140B market opportunity with a category-defining product.
77 NPS with customers like Zapier, Udemy, and Coda.
Women-led and mission-driven company, founders are Forbes 30U30 with backgrounds from Stanford, Uber, Google, and McKinsey.
Opportunity for meaningful ownership, leadership, and autonomy.
We are looking for a teammate we can count on to:
Given an initial design and technical plan, consistently deliver an end-to-end new product feature.
Collaborate with more senior members of the team to scope product requirements and write technical specifications.
Be shockingly efficient and results-driven to deliver software improvements to our users.
Produce high-quality, production-ready, readable, maintainable code.
Relevant Experience:
2-4 years of experience software engineering, preferably at a seed, Series A, or Series B company.
Well-versed in at least one modern engineering framework, and has showed aptitude to pick up new frameworks quickly.
Our stack is React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Node, JavaScript / TypeScript.
Success Profile:
Self-starter and fast learner.
Sharp at problem solving, critical thinking, and systems thinking.
Proactive communicator, both verbal and written, around technical decisions and project deadlines.
Primarily motivated to deliver high impact solutions to users rather than by using the latest coolest technologies.
Biased towards action and speed of delivery rather than quality.
Hiring Process:
Initial Screen (30 min)
First Round Interview (1 hour)
Final Technical Interview (3 hrs)
Searchlight References
Final Team Interviews (3 hrs)
Within 1 week you’ll...
Onboard with our team.
Ship your first commit on day one.
Take on 1-2 small tickets to address bugs or make minor improvements.
Have 1:1s with everyone on the team.
Go through a product orientation to get familiar with the different pieces of our platform.
Within 1 month you'll...
Ship your first major project, which will involve scoping, writing the technical plan (ERD) with your onboarding buddy, submitting your ERD for team review, creating Jira tickets + estimates, writing unit tests, creating incremental pull requests, requesting code review, and finally - deploy!
Participate in code reviews for other members of the team.
Shadow a few customer and partner meetings every week.
Within 6 months you'll...
Work with the engineering team to scope and ship products.
Help us grow our team by mentoring new engineers, writing internal tooling and documentation, and interviewing new hires.
Logistics:
Remote through Sep 2021.
Located out of the San Francisco, CA office beyond Sep 2021 with hybrid in-person and remote work.
Weekly team dinners (remote) sponsored by the company.
Salary range $120-140k.
Significant Equity.
401(k), Unlimited PTO, Health Insurance (100% paid premiums).
Diverse and Inclusive EmployerWe’re committed to providing equal treatment and opportunity to all applicants at every stage of the hiring cycle and throughout their life at the company.
Note: If you don’t match 100% of the job qualifications but think you’d be a great fit, we encourage you to apply!
About SearchlightCompanies with the best talent win. But the way that companies hire hasn’t changed in decades. Searchlight's full-cycle talent platform gives companies the right data and infrastructure to assess candidates and scale winning cultures.
#J-18808-Ljbffr