Software Engineer

Halo • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

Halo is looking for a Software Engineer to join our team and help grow the platform from early-stage product/market fit to massive scale. While the opportunity in front of us is large - the $2 trillion global R&D market - your work will also help accelerate scientific innovations that impact our world.
As a Software Engineer with a focus on Growth, you'll build new features, instrument those features and report on their impact, and improve our product development cycle.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience (or can show equivalent depth) writing software in our tech stack and a strong engineering background
• A love of simple, well-tested code that is easy to extend and hard to break
• The ability to convey technical ideas in common terms to business partners, product managers, designers, and engineers alike
• Understanding of performance tradeoffs, load balancing, and operational issues
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operations
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience
• Proven ability to handle ambiguity and competing priorities, managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• A willingness to wear different hats that are related but adjacent to your core role.
• A passion for product development and an eagerness to learn and grow within a dynamic startup environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to work cross-functionally and communicate with both technical and non-technical team members.

Nice To Haves

• You have a science-related degree or industry experience in science or health.
• Hands‑on product‑management experience or strong product instincts
• Experience working for companies offering B2B marketplaces, applicant tracking systems, CRMs, or project management tools.

Responsibilities

• Take point on complex product initiatives, decompose them into smaller pieces, and run them to completion with minimal supervision
• Design flexible, maintainable code to execute against the vision and roadmap
• Safeguard code quality on your team, reviewing others' code with an eye to performance and maintainability
• Work closely with designers and product managers to distill complex business problems into elegant technical solutions.
• Collaborate with a close-knit engineering team that ships new code into production multiple times a week.

Benefits

• Share in the upside. Early employees have an outsized impact on a startup’s success. It’s only fair that you receive meaningful equity in return.
• Donate to research. Make a donation to scientific research you care about and we’ll match your donation dollar-for-dollar.
• Volunteer for research. Participate in a research study through ResearchMatch, a nonprofit funded by the NIH, and get a $200 bonus check.
• Stay healthy. We don’t ever want your health to be a source of stress and offer top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Escape for the Winter. From December to March, Halo will fly you anywhere in the country to escape the cold and get some Vitamin D.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level