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Staff Software Engineer
B12
WorldwideremotePosted 1 day ago
Skill Required
Software-EngineerFull-Stack-EngineerBackend-EngineerStaff-Software-DeveloperStaff-Software-EngineeringSoftware EngineerSoftware DeveloperCI/CDPrototypingEngineeringTypeScriptPostgreSQLdesigningRedshiftbuildingTestNGPythonDjangoDockerdesignReactSQLandGenerative AIAWSAIFulltime
Key highlights
- Required experience: 10+ years in production
Role overview
B12 is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their engineering team, which views software as a craft to improve the world. This is the first Staff Engineer hire on a ~10-person product team, where you will own major projects, mentor team members, and contribute to the product. The ideal candidate has 10+ years of experience, strong backend/infrastructure skills, and a passion for learning and teaching. The team uses Python/Django, TypeScript/React, AWS services, PostgreSQL, Redshift, and AI, with near-full test coverage and CI/CD.
Responsibilities
- Prioritizing, conceptualizing, co-designing, building, testing, and engaging users for any concept we are building out.
- Ownership of major projects.
- Mentorship of team members with whom you ship projects.
- Own the delivery of a project of the magnitude “we ship one or two of these a quarter,” both individually shipping code and rallying and supporting team members in doing so.
- Participate in quarterly planning to identify key projects to work on next quarter.
- Mentor other engineers who are in the planning, prototyping, or implementation phases of a project.
- Respond to an incident, write up a postmortem, and improve tooling and infrastructure to help prevent or more quickly respond to the issue and others like it in the future.
- Identify and optimize some infrastructure that costs too much, is too slow, or isn’t stable enough.
- Discuss an early design/prototype with a designer or product manager to help shape its direction and explain what will be easy or hard to implement.
- Unblock an operational team member on a data analysis project that answers a hairy question facing our business.
- Run a brainstorm with engineers to identify how we might work more effectively or ship with a higher level of quality.
Requirements
- 10 or more years of experience building products and systems in production.
- Amazing communicator.
- Feel comfortable managing your time and deciding among competing priorities.
- Curious.
- High ownership mentality.
- Enjoy learning and teaching.
- Comfortable working with backend and frontend technologies, but have a deeper background and interest on the backend/infrastructure side.
- Care about and want to contribute to our mission of helping people do meaningful work.
- Tenured full-stack engineer who brings strong backend/infrastructure skills (and an interest in using them) to the product.
Additional details
- B12's engineering team views software as a craft, but improving the world as the reason to practice it.
- We’re generalists in encouraging each other to experience the full stack, but we’re also aware of each other’s preferences in the stack.
- We mentor and teach where we can, both inside and outside of the company.
- We value sharing our work with the outside world.
- Our team has published papers on forming expert flash teams and machine-mediated worker hierarchies.
- We’ve baked our research into various open source tools in the space of creativity, expertise, and knowledge work.
- We hope our engineers have more longevity than any one tool we use, but here is a sampling of our current thoughts about technology:
- We live on Python/Django and TypeScript/React.
- We store blobs in Amazon’s S3, munch on them in Amazon’s EC2, develop in Docker, and deploy containers to Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk.
- We believe PostgreSQL should be the first system you consider when thinking about persisting structured data.
- We clean and centralize data in Amazon’s Redshift, and are able to answer almost any question in SQL.
- We leverage AI in our product and our internal tooling, and faced with a landscape in constant flux, try to pick the right model or agent on a task-by-task basis.
- Our new code is almost 100% LLM-generated, and we’ve thought hard about ensuring quality in the face of ever-increasing review loads, what processes humans are still best at, and how the practice of mentorship must adapt in the face of these new tools.
- We have near-full test coverage on the backend, and are making progress on our frontend and integration tests.
- We set up continuous integration and deployment because, while this model comes with its own pains, we’ve disliked being on fixed release schedules on previous projects.
- We like to move fast and support point-in-time recovery :).
- This is B12’s first Staff Engineer hire on a ~10-person product team that includes a designer, product manager, and CTO.
- Don’t fear: We highly favor talent and interest.
- Some candidates may see this list and feel discouraged because they don’t match all the items. Please apply anyway: there’s a good chance you’re more wonderful than you think you are.
- B12 is a safe place for human beings. We particularly encourage you to apply if you identify as a woman, are a person of color or other underrepresented minority, or are a member of the LGBTQIA community.
- Originally posted on Himalayas.
