Software Engineer

Searchlight•South San Francisco, CA

11d•Hybrid

About The Position

Searchlight is revolutionizing a new category of data-driven hiring, focused on data infrastructure that closes the loop between recruiting and post-hire outcomes. We are looking for a teammate we can count on to consistently deliver an end-to-end new product feature given an initial design and technical plan. This role involves collaborating with other engineers to scope product requirements and write technical specifications, being shockingly efficient and results-driven to deliver software improvements to our users, producing high-quality, production-ready, readable, maintainable code, and lending technical expertise to unblock and invest in other engineers on the team.

Requirements

4+ years of experience software engineering
Preferably at least 2 years at a seed, Series A, or Series B company
Expert in at least one modern engineering framework
Has showed aptitude to pick up new frameworks quickly
React
Apollo GraphQL
Postgres
Node
JavaScript / TypeScript
Self-starter and fast learner
Sharp at problem solving, critical thinking, and systems thinking
Proactive communicator, both verbal and written, around technical decisions and project deadlines
Primarily motivated to deliver high impact solutions to users rather than by using the latest coolest technologies
Biased towards action and speed of delivery

Responsibilities

Consistently deliver an end-to-end new product feature given an initial design and technical plan
Collaborate with other engineers to scope product requirements and write technical specifications
Be shockingly efficient and results-driven to deliver software improvements to our users
Produce high-quality, production-ready, readable, maintainable code
Lend your technical expertise to unblock and invest in other engineers on your team
Ship your first commit on day one
Take on 1-2 small tickets to address bugs or make minor improvements
Ship your first major project, which will involve scoping, writing the technical plan (ERD) with your onboarding buddy, submitting your ERD for team review, creating Jira tickets + estimates, writing unit tests, creating incremental pull requests, requesting code review, and finally - deploy!
Participate in code reviews for other members of the team
Shadow a few customer and partner meetings every week
Work with the engineering team to scope and ship products
Help us grow our team by mentoring new engineers, writing internal tooling and documentation, and interviewing new hires