Senior Software Engineer

Bedrock Knowledge•Washington, DC

4h•Hybrid

About The Position

Bedrock Knowledge, Inc. is revolutionizing knowledge in and of the modern workforce from Fortune 500 companies to the military and government agencies. Its main product is an enterprise SaaS social learning network that, for users, offers coursework, “serious” games, and informational streams that are all inherently collaborative. For customers, Bedrock offers powerful analytics and insights to inform human capital strategy, leadership selection, and assignments. We aim for Bedrock to contribute to a more secure and prosperous world by improving how a wide variety of professionals learn, think, decide, and act. This is your chance to join a seed-stage startup and deeply shape the future of our core products.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years of experience building software in a professional setting
Loves TypeScript or other strongly-typed languages, and knows how and when to use the advanced features of the type system
Strong proficiency with React or similar front-end technologies
Has opinions on REST, WebSocket, and (g)RPC frameworks, and experience delivering strongly-typed, versioned, documented APIs
Shipped production code with AI and agentic coding tools such as Devin, Claude Code, and Cursor, and can say clearly where they speed the work up and where they get in the way
Can work with the product and design teams to take designs and prototypes and make them shippable products
Can handle significant responsibility autonomously while working as part of a small team
Has the right to work in the United States
Lives in the Washington, DC metro area or is willing to relocate there (our office is in the Georgetown neighborhood of DC)

Nice To Haves

Well-rounded full-stack engineer
Fluent with AI and agentic coding tools and use them every day
Judgment that makes AI tools useful
Rock-solid fundamentals, ideally from a CS background
Enough experience shipping software and developer tools to know good work from plausible work

Responsibilities

Deliver end-to-end platform features and new APIs, using existing testing and CI/CD infrastructure
Identify where additional testing and CI/CD infrastructure is needed, and build those processes with the team
Write clean, maintainable TypeScript in a dynamic small-team setting with minimal oversight
Give and act on peer code review, holding a high bar for clean code while staying professional and courteous
Participate in weekly sprint meetings: demo work in progress to the Product team, and help groom and prioritize the backlog
Document select APIs and occasionally serve as technical point of contact for the partners who use them