Role: Software Engineer - Graduate Role
Location: San Francisco, CA
Compensation: $120k–$240k
I am partnered with a YC-backed start-up that is looking to hire four graduate software engineers as they continue their growth within the engineering department. They are looking for the brightest grads and will also consider early-career engineers, so you do not have to be straight out of college for this one.
To be considered for this position, they want to see the following in candidates’ backgrounds:
- Computer Science degree from a top 30 college
- Internships — ideally at other start-ups or companies with a strong engineering culture
- Full-stack engineering background, backend-leaning
- Ideally, experience with the following tech stack (though they are open due to this being a junior role):
- Infra: Redis, Postgres, AWS (CDK, EC2)
- Open to fresh grads or people with up to 2 years of experience post-college
What you will do in this role
- Unification: Bring together dozens of fragmented systems under one standard — covering data models, authentication, UX, and core features like filters and pagination. Every feature must scale across all systems we support.
- On-Prem Integration: Connect with legacy on-prem systems (some decades old) and make them feel modern, fast, and reliable — often recreating real-time capabilities like webhooks from scratch.
- Scale & Performance: Handle millions of API requests daily. Build efficient caching and data storage to keep things fast. Ship code daily and improve quickly based on real customer feedback.
- Reliability: Deliver a stable API layer over unreliable, legacy systems — expanding integrations while maintaining high velocity and strong testing coverage across thousands of endpoints.
- Full Stack: Develop front-end apps powered by our own APIs — helping refine both the APIs and user experience through firsthand use.
- Integration Variety: Each new system is unique — requiring deep research and creative problem-solving to uncover how it really works before integrating.
If you are interested in finding out more about this position, please apply below, and I will contact you to discuss the position further.
