Senior Software Engineer - Tools

Desmos Studio PBC

7h•Remote

About The Position

Desmos Studio is on a mission to help everyone learn math, love math, and grow with math. We do this by building a free suite of math tools, used by more than 100 million people around the world. As a Public Benefit Corporation, we’re committed to keeping our core products freely available for individual use, not relying on external funding, never allowing 3rd party advertising, and never selling our users’ data. We’re able to stand behind those commitments on the back of being healthily profitable with a transparent business model: we license our software to other companies to enhance their work and incorporate into their products. Our tools engineering team is focused on developing best-in-class math tools across 2D and 3D graphing, geometry, and more. We build products that are simultaneously intuitive enough to be used in middle school classrooms and powerful enough to be used by professionals in fields ranging from game design to pharmaceuticals. This year we plan to expand our suite of tools to include even more ways to share mathematical thinking in rich formats. Our engineering team builds elegant and flexible systems that can quickly respond to design and pedagogy demands. We are often tasked with coming up with creative solutions to get an interaction feeling just right. We empower our users to create delightful and meaningful math experiences.

Requirements

How a healthy engineering culture helps build production-quality software.
Lessons you’ve learned from your experiences in prior roles and other math tools that you’ve used.
Design decisions in a project you led, including alternatives and trade-offs you made.
Comfort with jumping into multiple areas of a codebase, such as Typescript, Postgres, and HTML/CSS.
Your favorite mathematical topic.
Our commitment to accessibility and how to keep accessibility in mind during the development process.
Our approach to building software that works every time - scoping, design, architecture, code review, testing, automation, monitoring, etc.
Our 1-year goals, long-term aspirations, and how being a Public Benefit Corporation manifests in our work as a profitable business.
Our communities of users, including on Discord and Reddit, and how we learn from and with them.

Responsibilities

Introduce yourself on Slack to your new co-workers!
Learn about our process for writing, testing, and deploying code.
Ship your first piece of code to production!
Familiarize yourself with Typescript and our in-house, front-end framework.
Complete your first user-facing feature in collaboration with other teams (product, design, business).
Start reviewing code from other engineers on the team, bringing your keen eye for pragmatic and elegant solutions to challenging problems.
Be the technical lead on your first project, guiding it from design to implementation.
Participate in experimentation and review data to help inform product features
Get to know our users and better understand the role that Desmos plays inside and outside of the classroom.
Help the team enter a promising new market outside of K-12 education.
Become the company’s expert on one or more areas of the code base.
Help hire and onboard new members of the engineering team.
Take a vacation to recharge. We do our best work when we’re happy and well-rested.

Benefits

Competitive compensation. Every full-time member of the team receives generous stock and salary compensation as well as a 401(k) match of up to 5% of annual salary.
Great benefits. We offer medical, vision, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance. We also offer Medical and Dependent Care FSAs, at least 22 full-company holidays, a company donation match, and more!
Flexible hours. We’re a fully remote team, and everyone sets their own hours.
Work-life balance. We value results over hours and sustainable, long-term success over short-term wins.
Ownership and influence. As a member of a small team with few external stakeholders, each person here plays a major role in defining our policies, goals, culture, and benefits.

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