Senior Software Engineer, Product

Lighthouse•San Francisco, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We're looking for a senior full stack engineer to build the systems and interfaces that help the world's best and brightest build in the U.S. You'll work across our internal case management tools and applicant-facing portal, from the React applications to the APIs, data models, and real-time systems behind them. We're looking for someone with deep experience building complex web applications and the range to work wherever the product needs them.

Requirements

4+ years shipping product across frontend and backend, with deep expertise in React and TypeScript.
Taken products from 0 to 1 and owned architectural decisions as usage and complexity grew.
Built sophisticated web applications and understand the tradeoffs around state management, performance, synchronization, and concurrent changes.
Comfortable building backend services and reasoning about where responsibilities belong across client and server.
Can take a hard problem in a complex, unfamiliar system and independently research, prototype, and drive it to a working solution.

Nice To Haves

Experience with editors, collaborative applications, CRDTs, SSE or WebSockets, and AI-powered products is especially relevant.

Responsibilities

Build core product capabilities end to end, across frontend and backend
Evolving our React architecture to support increasingly complex workflows, application state, and live data.
Build document editing, review, and collaboration experiences, including ways for people to supervise and interact with AI-powered workflows.
Partner with product and our design engineer to take ideas from early prototypes through to polished, reliable software.