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Handshake

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 About Handshake
 
 
 
 Handshake is the career network for the AI economy. 20 million knowledge workers, 1,600 educational institutions, 1 million employers (including 100% of the Fortune 50), and every foundational AI lab trust Handshake to power career discovery, hiring, and upskilling, from freelance AI training gigs to first internships to full-time careers and beyond. This unique value is leading to unparalleled growth; in 2025, we tripled our ARR at scale.
 
 
 
 Why Join Handshake Now
 
 
 
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 Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel
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 Work hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world&rsquo;s top educational institutions
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 Join a team with leadership from Scale AI, Meta, xAI, Notion, Coinbase, and Palantir, among others
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 Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue
 
 
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 About The Role
 
 
 
 As a Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in building the products and systems that power Handshake&rsquo;s core user experiences&mdash;from search and discovery to onboarding and beyond. You&rsquo;ll work across the full stack, shipping features that directly impact how millions of users find opportunities, connect with employers, and launch their careers.
 
 
 You&rsquo;ll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver polished, end-to-end experiences in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment. Whether you&rsquo;re building AI-powered features, scaling backend systems, or crafting intuitive frontends, your work will have real, measurable impact on users at scale.
 
 
 
 Location: San Francisco, CA | 5 days/week in-office
 
 
 
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 Design and implement scalable full-stack systems powering core user journeys, including search, discovery, matching, and onboarding flows.
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 Build and iterate on product features across frontend and backend surfaces, balancing speed with code quality and correctness.
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 Ship backend APIs, asynchronous workflows, and frontend experiences that are reliable, scalable, and intuitive.
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 Partner closely with product managers and designers to translate requirements into polished, end-to-end user experiences.
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 Write high-quality, maintainable code while contributing to code reviews and engineering best practices.
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 Debug and resolve issues related to system reliability, user flows, and performance.
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 Contribute to architectural decisions and help establish patterns for scalable, secure deployments.
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 Grow toward increased technical ownership by learning from senior engineers on the team.
 
 
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 Desired Capabilities
 
 
 
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 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building full-stack applications.
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 Strong proficiency in TypeScript, with comfort working across frontend and backend.
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 Experience with modern web stacks (e.g., React, Next.js, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails).
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 Solid understanding of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and data modeling.
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 Product-oriented mindset with a focus on user experience and business outcomes.
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 Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering teams.
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 Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a focus on continuous learning and improvement.
 
 
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 Extra Credit
 
 
 
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 Experience with AI-powered products, chatbots, conversational interfaces, or agentic frameworks (e.g., OpenAI APIs).
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 Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools such as Temporal or asynchronous job systems.
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 Exposure to matching systems, marketplaces, or multi-step onboarding flows.
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 Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) and deployment pipelines.
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 Background at high-growth or scaling technology companies.
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 Familiarity with component libraries, design systems, and building reusable interfaces for rapid deployment.
 
 
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 Perks
 
 
 
 Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported&mdash;and thrive at work and in life.
 
 
 
 
 The below benefits are for full-time US employees.
 
 
 
 
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 Ownership:
 
 Equity in a fast-growing company
 
 
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 Financial Wellness
 
 : 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
 
 
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 Family Support:
 
 Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
 
 
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 Wellbeing:
 
 Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
 
 
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 Growth:
 
 $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development
 
 
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 Remote &amp; Office:
 
 Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office
 
 
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 Time Off:
 
 Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
 
 
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 Connection:
 
 Team outings &amp; referral bonuses
 
 
 Explore our mission, values, and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers.
 
 
 Compensation Range: $145K - $170K
 
 
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Software Engineer

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 About Zip
 
 
 
 Zip is the AI platform for enterprise procurement &mdash; built for humans and agents working together. By orchestrating procurement across teams, tools, and suppliers with the help of AI agents, companies can secure the resources they need to innovate faster than ever before.
 
 
 The world&rsquo;s most influential enterprises trust Zip, including T-Mobile, OpenAI, AMD, Mars, Dollar Tree, and more. Together they&rsquo;ve saved over $8 billion and processed over $500 billion in spend. Zip&rsquo;s team includes product leaders from Apple, Airbnb, and Meta, as well as former procurement leaders from United Health, Sanofi, MGM Resorts, Discover, and NASA.
 
 
 Backed by Adams Street, Alkeon, BOND, CRV, DST, Tiger Global, and Y Combinator, Zip has raised $371 million, most recently at a $2.2 billion valuation and has been recognized by Forbes Fintech 50, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, Inc. Best in Business, and LinkedIn Top Startups.
 
 
 
 Your Role
 
 
 
 The Identity team is responsible for the platforms that manage user access and data confidentiality for customers. As a Software Engineer on the team, you will take on a dynamic role, developing core customer-facing identity products, such as authentication/authorization, user account security, and encryption key management. We move quickly to solve a wide range of complex technical and product challenges. While we are an experienced team that can provide constant guidance and mentorship, we value engineers who can autonomously scope and solve complex technical challenges.
 
 
 You will
 
 
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 Design and build product features for enterprise customers, such as AI-powered anomaly detection for payment fraud and account takeovers, granular access control and identity management, and bring-your-own-key encryption.
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 Work closely with cross-functional product and customer-facing teams to understand requirements and ship thoughtful solutions.
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 Work closely with our customers&rsquo; security teams (e.g., Discover, Snowflake, and Anthropic) to understand their needs and learn how they assess risk.
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 Build guardrails, tooling, frameworks, and automation to empower software engineers to ship secure changes and prevent vulnerabilities from reaching the main branch.
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 Design and build scalable frontend applications and components.
 
 
 
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 Minimum 1+ years of experience in a software engineering role. This role requires software development experience.
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 Experience with web application and API development in production environments. At Zip, our stack includes Python, Typescript, React, and GraphQL.
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 Experience in enterprise SaaS, fintech, software security best practices, and compliance frameworks is a bonus, but not required.
 
 
 
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 The salary range for this role is $150,000 - $180,000. The salary for this position is determined based on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant experience, education, or particular skills and expertise.
 
 
 
 Perks &amp; Benefits
 
 
 
 At Zip, we&rsquo;re committed to providing our employees with everything they need to do their best work.
 
 
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 📈 Start-up equity
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 🦷 100% health, vision &amp; dental coverage options
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 🍽️ Catered breakfast, lunch, &amp; dinner
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 🌴 Flexible PTO
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 🏋️&zwj;&female;️ ClassPass membership
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 🚍 Monthly commuter benefit
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 🚠 Team building events &amp; happy hours
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 💻 Home office stipend
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 🛜 Phone/internet reimbursement
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 🏠 Hybrid model + 5 flexible remote days per quarter
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 🍼 Paid parental leave
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 🐣 Fertility benefits
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 🧑&zwj;🧑&zwj;🧒&zwj;🧒 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
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 🤖 Unlimited AI token usage
 
 
 
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 We're looking to hire Zipsters and that means hiring people who take ownership, communicate openly, have an underdog mindset, and are excited to increase the pace of innovation for every business in the world. We encourage all candidates to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match up to our job description. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workspace where everyone (regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and more) feels like they belong. We look forward to hearing from you!
 
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Software Engineer, Identity

Ramp

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 About Ramp
 
 
 
 Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $100B in annualized spend flows in and out of 50,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books.
 
 
 The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving.
 
 
 We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you&rsquo;ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome.
 
 
 The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year &ndash; far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same.
 
 
 If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it.
 
 
 
 About The Role
 
 
 
 Our ideal candidate has a deep understanding of JavaScript, a passion for web performance, and can creatively come up with solutions to solve customer's needs. Our tech stack currently involves TypeScript, React, Vite, and Ryu, our in-house design system.
 
 
 Check out our Engineering Blog for more on our tech stack, mission and values!
 
 
 What You&rsquo;ll Do
 
 
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 Build!
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 Design performant, beautiful, and usable interfaces
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 Collaborate on our technical vision. Lead discussions and implementation of multiple complex projects
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 Foster a culture of upholding industry-leading UX
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 Continuously improve our engineering processes, tools, and systems that allow us to scale the code base, productivity, and the team
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 Recruit, interview and develop your own interview questions, while fostering the culture of excellence, velocity and humility
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 Inspire and mentor less experienced engineers and interns
 
 
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 What You'll Need
 
 
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 Minimum of 2 years of frontend engineering experience preferred
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 Proficiency in JavaScript and React
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 Knack for getting the visuals right
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 Track record of shipping high-quality products and developing projects at scale
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 Ability to turn business and product ideas into engineering solutions
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 Desire to work in a fast-paced environment, continuously grow, and master your craft
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 Alignment with Ramp&rsquo;s core values of enabling businesses to grow more by spending less
 
 
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 Benefits (for U.S.-based Full-time Employees)
 
 
 
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 100% medical, dental &amp; vision insurance coverage for you
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 Partially covered for your dependents
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 One Medical annual membership
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 401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
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 Flexible PTO
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 Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)
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 Parental Leave
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 Unlimited AI token usage
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 Pet insurance
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 Centralized home-office equipment ordering for all employees
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 Health and Wellness stipend
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 In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more
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 Budget for intra-office travel
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 Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed)
 
 
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 Referral Instructions
 
 
 
 If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf.
 
 
 
 Other Notices
 
 
 
 Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
 
 
 
 Beware of recruiting scams: Ramp will only contact you through official @
 
 
 Ramp.com
 
 
 email addresses and will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information during the hiring process.
 
 
 
 Ramp Applicant Privacy Notice
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Software Engineer, Frontend

<div><div>This is an incredible opportunity to be part of a company that has been at the forefront of AI and high-performance data storage innovation for over two decades. DataDirect Networks (DDN) is a global market leader renowned for powering many of the world's most demanding AI data centers, in industries ranging from life sciences and healthcare to financial services, autonomous cars, Government, academia, research and manufacturing.</div><div></div><div> 
&quot;DDN's A3I solutions are transforming the landscape of AI infrastructure.&quot; &ndash; IDC</div><div></div><div> 
&ldquo;The real differentiator is DDN. I never hesitate to recommend DDN. DDN is the de facto name for AI Storage in high performance environments&rdquo; - Marc Hamilton, VP, Solutions Architecture &amp; Engineering | NVIDIA</div><div></div><div> 
DDN is the global leader in AI and multi-cloud data management at scale. Our cutting-edge data intelligence platform is designed to accelerate AI workloads, enabling organizations to extract maximum value from their data. With a proven track record of performance, reliability, and scalability, DDN empowers businesses to tackle the most challenging AI and data-intensive workloads with confidence.</div><div></div><div> 
Our success is driven by our unwavering commitment to innovation, customer-centricity, and a team of passionate professionals who bring their expertise and dedication to every project. This is a chance to make a significant impact at a company that is shaping the future of AI and data management.</div><div></div><div> 
Our commitment to innovation, customer success, and market leadership makes this an exciting and rewarding role for a driven professional looking to make a lasting impact in the world of AI and data storage.</div> 
We are seeking a hands-on Staff Frontend Software Engineer to define and lead the architecture of Infinia&rsquo;s next-generation UI platform.
This is a deeply technical leadership role. You will:<ul><li>
Own frontend architectural direction</li><li>
Design scalable UI platform foundations</li><li>
Enable multiple teams to build independently and efficiently</li><li>
Integrate AI-driven capabilities into the user experience</li><li>
Ensure enterprise-grade security, performance, and reliability</li></ul> 
DDN - Infinia engineers come from diverse backgrounds, and we consider them to be in the highest tier of technology game changers globally. They have created, architected and pioneered numerous advancements in data enabling technologies, and delivered groundbreaking ideas which have shaped and transformed the storage industry.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader"> 
What You&rsquo;ll Do</h1><ul><li>
Define and own the frontend architecture roadmap for Infinia.</li><li>
Establish long-term framework and tooling strategy.</li><li>
Build high-performance applications using modern UI technologies (e.g., React, TypeScript, Next.js).</li><li>
Integrate AI capabilities into the UI experience.</li><li>
Define and enforce CI/CD best practices.</li><li>
Lead design, implementation, and automation of frontend QE practices.</li><li>
Guide architectural reviews and mentor other engineers.</li><li>
Establish coding standards, testing strategies, and quality benchmarks.</li><li>
Enforce strict frontend security best practices.</li><li>
Ensure UI meets enterprise performance, scalability, and reliability requirements.</li><li>
Influence product direction with technical insight.</li><li>
Translate complex storage and distributed systems concepts into intuitive user experiences.</li><li>
Partner cross-functionally with backend, platform, security, and DevOps teams.</li></ul> 
What will you bring to DDN
<ul><li>10+ years of software development experience.</li><li>
7+ years of experience with React and/or TypeScript.</li><li>
Proven experience defining frontend architecture for enterprise-scale platforms.</li><li>
Experience in data storage, infrastructure, or distributed systems domains.</li><li>
Experience building AI-integrated web applications.</li><li>
Experience operating in both cloud-native and on-prem environments.</li><li>
Strong understanding of frontend security best practices.</li></ul>
Salary Range: $123,000 - $228,000 
Join our dynamic and driven team, where engineering excellence is at the heart of everything we do. We seek individuals who love to challenge themselves and are fueled by curiosity. Here, you'll have the opportunity to work across various areas of the company, thanks to our flat organizational structure that encourages hands-on involvement and direct contributions to our mission. Leadership is earned by those who take initiative and consistently deliver outstanding results, both in their work ethic and deliverables, making strong prioritization skills essential. Additionally, we value strong communication skills in all our engineers and researchers, as they are crucial for the success of our teams and the company as a whole. 
Interview Process: After submitting your application, one of our recruiters will review your resume. If your application passes this stage, you will be invited to a 30-minute interview during which a member of our team will ask some basic questions. If you clear the interview, you will enter the main process, which can consist of up to four interviews in total: 
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Coding assessment: Often in a language of your choice.</li><li>
Systems design: Translate high-level requirements into a scalable, fault-tolerant service (depending on role).</li><li>
Real-time problem-solving: Demonstrate practical skills in a live problem-solving session.</li><li>
Meet and greet with the wider team.</li><li>
Our goal is to finish the main process in 2-3 weeks at most.</li></ul> 
DataDirect Networks (DDN) is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender, sex stereotyping, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.<div></div><div> 
#LI-Remote</div></div>

Staff Frontend / Full-Stack Engineer – AI Storage Platforms

Whatnot

<div>
 
 
 🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!
 
 
 
 
 Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops.
 
 
 As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our values and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia. We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.
 
 
 We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.
 
 
 
 💻 Role
 
 
 
 We are looking for intellectually curious, highly motivated individuals to join us post grad in 2026. The most important skills you&rsquo;ll need to have are making sound product decisions and shipping high-quality products fast. We look for engineers with great product instincts who can own whole projects from start to finish.
 
 
 
 Job Duties
 
 
 
 The engineering team operates with a high level of autonomy so we need to hire people we can trust. Your ability to make good trade-offs and exercise good judgment is essential to us. Some job duties include:
 
 
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 Building new features for users in our live-streams
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 Implementing growth tactics and strategies to scale our buyer and seller flows
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 Building systems at scale that help us deliver a high trust marketplace experience
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 Writing product or system development code
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 Designing, implementing, and operating our most critical and scalable services
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 Carefully evaluating the technical tradeoffs of every decision
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 Supporting features at every phase, from design through implementation and launch
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 Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues, network, or service operations and quality.
 
 
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 We offer flexibility to work from home or from one of our global office hubs, and we value in-person time for planning, problem-solving, and connection. Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of our San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Seattle hub.
 
 
 
 
 
 👋 You
 
 
 
 
 Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We&rsquo;ve found that embodying a low ego, growth mindset, and high-impact drive goes a long way here.
 
 
 As our next Engineer you should have some industry software engineering experience, plus:
 
 
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 Graduating with a CS or Software Engineering degree in Dec 2025 or by Summer 2026
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 Problem solver and out-of-the-box thinker
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 Willing to take risks and build product and systems for 1M+ users
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 Capable of building scalable systems
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 Excellent product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution
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 You are known for shipping products and features lightning-fast
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 Ability to pick up on new technologies very quickly
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 Open to relocation to Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Seattle
 
 
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 🎁 Benefits
 
 
 
 
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 Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
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 Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
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 Work From Home Support
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 Home office setup allowance
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 Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
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 Monthly allowance for wellness
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 Annual allowance towards Childcare
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 Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
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 Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
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 Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
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 All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).
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 💛 EOE
 
 
 
 
 Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.
 
 
 Compensation Range: $140K - $150K
 
 
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Software Engineer, New Grad

Arcade Food Theatre

<div>Everyone's talking about AI. But here's the truth: ChatGPT can't send your emails. It can't book your flights. It can't even order you lunch.
Why? Because AI is trapped in a chat box. It can't take real actions in the real world.
We are changing that forever. We're not just building another AI company - we're creating the infrastructure that will power every AI application you'll use in the future.
The Revolution Needs You
Every AI app needs agentic &quot;tools&quot; - special functions that let AI models take real actions. Without tools, AI can only chat. With tools, AI can actually do things. We're building the definitive tools catalog and tool-calling platform that will unlock AI's true potential. Think Zapier for AI Actions. Think Auth0 for AI. Think really big.
Why This Is The Opportunity of a Lifetime<ul><li>
Founder-Market Fit : Our CEO previously founded Stormpath (acquired by Okta), where he created the first Authentication API for developers. He's done this before - and this time the market is 10x bigger. Our CTO led the vector database team at Redis, shipped 100+ LLM applications, and is a contributor to LangChain and LlamaIndex. He knows this space better than anyone.
</li><li>Dream Team : We've assembled authentication, integrations, distributed systems, and AI experts from Okta, Redis, Microsoft, Splunk, Ngrok, Google, Airbyte, Disney, and HPE who've built and founded multiple successful developer platforms.
</li><li>Perfect Timing : We're at the inflection point of AI adoption. The biggest problem isn't better models - it's connecting AI to real-world actions. That's us.</li><li>
Massive Market : We're building critical infrastructure for the biggest technological shift of our generation. Every AI app will need what we're building.</li><li>
Backed By The Best: Our investors have backed Databricks, Clickhouse, MongoDB, Perplexity, Cohere, ScaleAI, Confluent, Elastic, and Firebase. They see what we see - this is going to be huge.</li></ul>
The Challenge
Growth's charter is simple and hard: build champions for Arcade - agent builders who not only stick around, but advocate for Arcade&rsquo;s use at their company. That means our entire focus right now is on the earliest part of a developer&rsquo;s journey: getting someone from the moment they sign up to the moment they&rsquo;ve built something valuable, as fast as possible.
Arcade's product is powerful; developers who get to real usage love it. The opportunity is making that path effortless. We want every agent builder who signs up to go from zero to connected, authenticated, real-world tool calls as fast as possible, with nothing in their way.
You'll be the technical backbone of a small, agile Growth team. This is not a &quot;manage from the sidelines&quot; role; you'll be writing code across Go, Python, and TypeScript, shipping changes across Arcade's services and frontend, and unblocking team members. You'll own the developer experience from post-signup through activation: onboarding flows, MCP Gateway setup, auth friction, billing surfaces, docs, and the instrumentation to know whether any of it is working.
The team is early. You'll be shaping what Growth engineering looks like at Arcade from the surfaces it owns, to the experiments it runs, and the data infrastructure it needs. Growth owns both the full self-serve lifecycle - activation, retention, expansion, and monetization -and the measurement of success. You'll be building the foundation for all of it.
This role reports to the Engineering Manager for Tools and Growth. At a startup this size, you'll work across the entire company, partnering with the product manager on Tools and Growth, collaborating with Platform and Tools engineering on cross-service dependencies, and working directly with the Head of Marketing and CEO on what moves the needle. If you want broad impact and short feedback loops with the people making decisions, this is that role.
What You'll Do<ul><li>
Own the technical direction and delivery for Growth engineering: activation flows, onboarding, billing, docs, and developer experience surfaces across the product.</li><li>
Ship code daily across the stack - React frontend, Go and Python backend services - while making architecture decisions that hold up as the team scales.</li><li>
Lead a small team (1&ndash;2 engineers today, growing): unblock them, review their code, and set the technical bar. You'll be IC-heavy at first, coding alongside the team, and gradually shift toward planning, architecture, and technical direction as the team grows.</li><li>
Build the experimentation and measurement layer: feature flags, A/B tests, funnel instrumentation, and cohort dashboards so the team can run data-driven activation experiments.</li><li>
Reduce time-to-value by identifying and eliminating friction in the MCP Gateway setup, OAuth configuration, onboarding UX, and documentation.</li><li>
Navigate cross-team dependencies with Platform and Tools engineering: bring funnel data, propose interface changes, and ship contributions to services you don't own when it unblocks activation work.</li><li>
Build leverage by using automation and AI tooling to compress cycle times. Projects that take a week today should take a day next time.</li></ul>
Required Skills<ul><li>
7+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership (tech lead, staff engineer, or similar - formal title matters less than the work).</li><li>
Deep backend and systems expertise - you've built and maintained production APIs, designed database migrations, worked with PostgreSQL, and debugged distributed systems. Go and/or Python experience strongly preferred.</li><li>
Architectural fluency across the full stack - you understand how services, frontends, and data layers stitch together to create a product experience. You can translate between backend infrastructure and user-facing surfaces.</li><li>
Frontend savvy - you may not be a frontend specialist, but you can read and contribute to a React codebase, give meaningful feedback on UI decisions, and collaborate effectively with frontend engineers.</li><li>
Experience working across several services operating independently - you've navigated shared libraries, cross-service dependencies, and coordinated deployments without breaking things.</li><li>
A growth or product engineering mindset - you think in funnels, activation metrics, and experiments, not just features. You've measured the impact of what you've shipped.</li><li>
Experience leading small teams - code review, technical mentorship, architectural decision-making, and the judgment to know when to build vs. when to cut scope.</li><li>
Comfort with ambiguity - pre-PMF, early team, narrow charter that will expand. You make good decisions with incomplete data.</li><li>
An insatiable desire to ship.</li></ul>
Bonus Points<ul><li>
Experience with OAuth/OIDC flows, identity systems, or auth infrastructure</li><li>
Familiarity with the MCP (Model Context Protocol) ecosystem or similar agent-tool protocols</li><li>
Experience building developer onboarding, activation funnels, or PLG infrastructure</li><li>
You've set up growth data infrastructure: PostHog, feature flags, funnel dashboards, behavioral cohorts</li><li>
Open-source contributions</li><li>
Experience at an early-stage startup, and you loved it</li></ul>
Notes:<ul><li>
This is an in-person role located in our San Francisco (SOMA) office.</li><li>
We are not able to sponsor visas to the United States at this time.</li></ul>
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