Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack – New Product

CaptivateIQ • Nashville, TN

2d

About The Position

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in the earliest stages of product development — where the problems are ambiguous, the path is undefined, and the focus is on discovering what should exist, not just building what’s already been decided.
This is a highly creative, high-impact engineering role: you’ll help take brand-new concepts from idea → prototype → production, working closely with design, product, and customers. If you love building new experiences, validating assumptions quickly, shaping product direction, and turning abstract ideas into real software, you’ll excel here.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience shipping real products in fast-moving environments.
• Proven success building new products or highly exploratory features (0→1, startups, innovation labs, greenfield initiatives).
• Comfort working with high ambiguity and incomplete information — you can define direction, propose solutions, and move work forward without waiting for perfect specs.
• Strong customer empathy and interest in learning directly from users.
• Fluency in full-stack development (or strong backend experience paired with solid product instincts), with hands-on experience in Python/Django, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and PostgreSQL.
• Solid understanding of system design, APIs, performance, and scalable architecture.
• Ability to balance speed vs. quality — you know when to build scrappy and when to build durable.
• Excellent communication skills and willingness to collaborate across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Build 0→1 products: Create new services, features, and user experiences from scratch — often starting with rough prototypes and evolving them into scalable, production-ready systems.
• Work through ambiguity: Take loosely defined, abstract problem spaces and transform them into clear technical and architectural approaches.
• Partner deeply with product & design: Participate in customer discovery, sketch solutions, propose alternatives, challenge assumptions, and help define what valuable and delightful looks like.
• Experiment rapidly: Build POCs, run technical spikes, validate ideas quickly, and iterate based on real customer feedback.
• Influence product direction: Bring an engineering-driven perspective to what we build, how we build it, and what tradeoffs are worth making at early stages.
• Design and build scalable systems once we validate the direction, balancing speed with long-term maintainability.
• Raise the technical bar: Contribute to architectural discussions, coding standards, best practices, and mentoring other engineers.
• Own quality end-to-end: From early prototypes to robust production code, you care deeply about reliability, performance, and customer experience.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to provide after-hours support, ensuring timely resolution of critical issues and maintaining system uptime.

Benefits

• 100% of medical, dental, and vision covered including 75% for dependents
• Flexible vacation days and quarterly mental health days so you can recharge
• 401k plan to participate in and save towards the future
• Newest Apple products to help you do your best work
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support and celebrate the shared identities and life experiences of communities within CaptivateIQ. ERGs directly support our company-wide DEI goals as a space for developing and retaining diverse talent

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees