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Beacon Software

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 Beacon Software is a permanent capital holding company which acquires and grows essential businesses. We are a profitable series B+ firm that combines great technologists, operators and M&amp;A professionals to accelerate the scale of the ambition of the dozens of businesses we own and operate. We are supported by capital from tier-1 venture capital, crossover, and endowment investors as well as the founders of the leading technology companies from the past decade.
 
 
 We are growing our team in Toronto, San Francisco, and New York. Apply below.
 
 
 Software Engineer
 
 
 We're looking for a versatile Software Engineer to drive technical innovation and accelerate growth across our portfolio of software companies. You'll collaborate closely with product, design, and leadership teams within our portfolio companies to solve high-impact problems across diverse architectures, tech stacks, and industries. You'll learn how to design and execute large-scale software modernization efforts with AI, build new AI-powered features, re-imagine the product experience. You'll have direct influence on revenue, customer experience, product vision, and technical direction&mdash;bridging code with commercial impact.
 
 
 This is a hands-on, high-impact role ideal for a full-stack engineer or ex-founder who thrives in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environments.
 
 
 
 Key Responsibilities
 
 
 
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 Deploy into Beacon portfolio companies to identify, design, and deliver high-impact technical initiatives.
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 Analyze portfolio company codebases to identify value creation opportunities and technical debt reduction strategies.
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 Refactor, modernize, and scale existing systems using current best practices and frameworks.
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 Build AI-powered features and products that drive measurable business growth.
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 Architect scalable backend and API services (Node.js, Python, Go, Ruby, etc.).
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 Develop modern, performant frontends using React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
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 Collaborate with product and business leaders to translate commercial goals into technical roadmaps.
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 Contribute to internal engineering playbooks and best practices across Beacon's platform.
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 Mentor and support technical teams within portfolio companies to lift engineering standards
 
 
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 What We're Looking For
 
 
 
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 5+ years of experience as a full-stack or backend engineer, ideally in a startup or high-growth environment.
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 Strong foundation in software engineering best practices, including code quality, testing, and deployment
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 Command of one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, TypeScript, Ruby).
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 Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern DevOps practices.
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 Comfort working across diverse architectures&mdash;from monoliths to microservices.
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 Curiosity and versatility to dive into unfamiliar codebases and domains
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 Familiarity with AI integration, LLMs, and data-driven applications.
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 Strong systems-thinking mindset and a bias for simplicity.
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 Proven ability to deliver autonomously with high ownership.
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 Excellent communication skills and collaborative spirit.
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 Commercial mindset, curiosity about business models, and how software creates enterprise value.
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 Desire to grow into a technical leader or founder role.
 
 
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 This Role Is Perfect for You If
 
 
 
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 You're an ex-founder or founding engineer who thrives in ambiguity.
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 You want to build and ship products across multiple industries.
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 You're fascinated by how code translates into profit and growth.
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 You enjoy diving into new codebases, diagnosing bottlenecks, and scaling systems.
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 You believe AI will reshape how software is built&mdash;and you want to be at the forefront.
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 You care deeply about clean, maintainable, and scalable engineering.
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 You want to learn how to acquire, operate, and scale software businesses.
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 You're commercially curious&mdash;just as excited by go-to-market strategy as by refactoring a service.
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 You're energized by speed, autonomy, and a culture that values judgment over process.
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 You want to work with people who set a high bar&mdash;and help you raise yours.
 
 
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 Our Values at Beacon Software
 
 
 
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 Humility: We acknowledge that the path to getting to the right answer involves being wrong along the way. We have strong beliefs which are weakly held. We actively seek new ideas and believe we can learn from anyone at any time.
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 Honesty: We are truth seeking in our approach to business problems. Business is a repeat game and we believe that human relationships generate alpha. We understand that trust is earned over a lifetime and can be lost in an instant.
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 Hunger: We play to win. We hold ourselves to high standards and will not be outworked. We take pride in having a deep sense of responsibility to ourselves, each other, our partners, and our customers. We believe to whom much is given much is expected.
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 Horizon: We seek to build a generational software company. This will take decades. We manage our expectations and those of our partners to take advantage of the 8th wonder of the world - compounding growth.
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Software Engineer

Halliday

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 About Halliday
 
 
 
 Halliday is a blockchain company and product lab working to create a unified, cross-chain payments ecosystem. Its flagship product, Halliday Payments, is a unified payments platform that makes it easy for users to onramp, swap, and take other onchain actions. Halliday&rsquo;s products are built on the Workflow Protocol, which removes the need to code smart contracts by hand and enables breakthrough applications to ship in hours, not years.
 
 
 Backed by a16z and #Hashed, Halliday has worked with prominent developers such as ApeChain, Story Protocol and DeFi Kingdoms to provide seamless experiences for both developers and users. The team includes alumni from Stanford, Harvard, Compound, Solana Foundation, Meta, Netflix, and more.
 
 
 
 About The Role
 
 
 
 As a Software Engineer at Halliday, you&rsquo;ll play a pivotal role in designing and building the core infrastructure driving the future of commerce. This is an opportunity to work on cutting edge technology that makes blockchain accessible, seamless, and secure, while collaborating with a talented and passionate team.
 
 
 
 What You'll Be Doing
 
 
 
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 Architect and build secure distributed systems that integrate blockchains, cryptography, decentralized finance, zero knowledge proofs, and many other bleeding edge technologies.
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 Develop scalable services, APIs, and robust testing frameworks to support our platform.
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 Utilize open-source blockchain SDKs to interact with various networks, protocols, and smart contracts.
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 Contribute to the development and refinement of Halliday&rsquo;s public SDKs, making it easy for developers to integrate with our services.
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 Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including design, product, engineering, and business to build impactful solutions that advance the web3 ecosystem.
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 Innovate and expand on our foundational cross-chain protocol.
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 Continuously identify and implement improvements to enhance our platform's performance, security, and scalability.
 
 
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 What We&rsquo;re Looking For
 
 
 
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 Experience as a software engineer, demonstrated through impactful projects such as developing scalable applications, building robust APIs, or contributing to widely-used libraries and frameworks.
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 A quick learner with a passion for exploring new technologies and creating innovative solutions.
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 A collaborative mindset and excellent problem-solving skills.
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 Located in or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City.
 
 
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 Nice to haves
 
 
 
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 Experience working with blockchain technologies, including EVM-based chains, Bitcoin, and/or Solana.
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 Solid understanding of blockchain concepts, including smart contracts, cryptography, and decentralized applications.
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 Familiarity with modern web services, cloud infrastructure, containerization, and deployment pipelines.
 
 
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 Why Work at Halliday?
 
 
 
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 A role with significant autonomy to build out the next generation infrastructure of the blockchain space.
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 Competitive compensation package, with unlimited PTO and a friendly work environment.
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 For international candidates - we offer visa sponsorship!
 
 
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 Compensation
 
 
 
 The base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $190,000. This reflects the minimum and maximum range across all US locations. This does not include equity or benefits.
 
 
 The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: experience, relevant skills, and role level. Your recruiter can share more about the compensation and benefits applicable to your location during the hiring process.
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Twitch

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 About Us
 
 
 
 Twitch is the world&rsquo;s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.
 
 
 We&rsquo;re about community, inside and out. You&rsquo;ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We&rsquo;re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we&rsquo;re up to on LinkedIn and X, and discover the projects we&rsquo;re solving on our Blog. Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process.
 
 
 
 About The Role
 
 
 
 We are seeking Software Development Engineers to join our Video Platform team. This team is responsible for building and maintaining the systems that ensure that Twitch can deliver the best possible video experience to Viewers and Creators. You will be part of a larger team of Software Developers and partner with Product Managers, Technical Program Managers and other engineering teams from across the business.
 
 
 You can work in San Francisco, CA or Irvine, CA.
 
 
 
 You Will:
 
 
 
 
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 Build and maintain the services that power Twitch&rsquo;s video platform
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 Collaborate effectively with product managers, program managers and other engineering teams at Twitch
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 Contribute positively to Twitch&rsquo;s engineering culture
 
 
 
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 You Have:
 
 
 
 
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 1+ years of experience developing software in a professional environment
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 Proficient coding skills in modern languages and frameworks
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 Proven ability with algorithms, data structures, data modeling, and schema design
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 Minimum of Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
 
 
 
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 Bonus Points
 
 
 
 
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 Experience with languages/frameworks we use at Twitch: Golang, Typescript/React
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 Familiarity with video delivery concepts and systems
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 Familiarity with AWS&rsquo; Interactive Video Service
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 Familiarity with Twitch, gaming, and/or streaming on Twitch
 
 
 
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 Perks
 
 
 
 
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 Medical, Dental, Vision &amp; Disability Insurance
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 401(k)
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 Maternity &amp; Parental Leave
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 Flexible PTO
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 Amazon Employee Discount
 
 
 
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 Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
 
 
 
 
 Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
 
 
 
 Job ID: TW8977
 
 
 
 Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographic market up to our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. This position will remain open until filled. For more information, please visit https://www.twitch.tv/jobs/en/#learn-more. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
 
 
 
 US Pay Per Year
 
 
 $99,500&mdash;$200,000 USD
 
 
 
 Twitch is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
 
 
 
 
 Twitch values your privacy. Please consult our Candidate Privacy Notice, for information about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information of our candidates.
 
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Software Engineer I

Decagon

<div>About Decagon
Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experience. Our AI agents provide intelligent, human-like responses across chat, email, and voice, resolving millions of customer inquiries across every language and at any time.
Since coming out of stealth, Decagon has experienced rapid growth. We partner with industry leaders like Hertz, Eventbrite, Duolingo, Oura, Bilt, Curology, and Samsara to redefine customer experience at scale. We've raised over $200M from Bain Capital Ventures, Accel, a16z, BOND Capital, A*, Elad Gil, and notable angels such as the founders of Box, Airtable, Rippling, Okta, Lattice, and Klaviyo.
We&rsquo;re an in-office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity. Our values&mdash;customers are everything, relentless momentum, winner&rsquo;s mindset, and stronger together&mdash;shape how we work and grow as a team.
About the Team
The Agent Orchestration team builds the core execution layer that powers every agent interaction. This includes the systems responsible for coordinating model reasoning, evaluating agent behavior, and ensuring that agents behave reliably in real customer environments.
We focus on correctness, reliability, and speed. Our work shapes how Decagon agents plan, decide, and take actions across millions of interactions.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Agent Orchestration team, you will design and build the systems that determine how Decagon agents operate under real world conditions. You will own complex distributed systems challenges and create foundations that help teams improve agent performance, reliability, and quality.
You will have significant autonomy, direct impact, and the ability to shape the architecture behind one of the most advanced agent platforms in the world.
In this role, you will<ul><li>
Build the execution engine that powers intelligent agents at scale</li><li>
Design systems that coordinate model reasoning and actions while staying fast and correct</li><li>
Improve reliability through better testing, observability, and safeguards</li><li>
Build foundations that help teams evaluate and improve agent behavior safely and continuously</li></ul>
Your background looks something like this<ul><li>
5+ years of experience building production systems</li><li>
Proficiency in Python or Typescript and comfort with asynchronous programming</li><li>
Strong debugging skills across complex technical stacks</li><li>
Ability to design reliable distributed systems that handle real world failure modes</li><li>
A track record of owning large technical projects end to end</li></ul>
Even better<ul><li>
Experience with real time or low latency systems</li><li>
Experience with workflow engines, agents, or model driven applications</li><li>
Experience building tooling or infrastructure for other engineers</li><li>
Experience with experimentation or evaluation systems</li></ul>
Benefits:<ul><li>
Medical, dental, and vision benefits</li><li>
Take what you need vacation policy</li><li>
Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office to keep you at your best</li></ul>
Compensation
$250K &ndash; $330K + Offers Equity
Compensation Range: $250K - $375K</div>

Senior Software Engineer, Agent Orchestration

Retool

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 About Retool
 
 
 
 Nearly every company in the world runs on custom software for critical operations like tracking performance metrics, handling customer support workflows, building admin dashboards, and countless other processes you might not have even thought of. But most companies don't have adequate resources to properly invest in these tools, leading to a lot of old and clunky internal software or, even worse, users still stuck in manual and spreadsheet flows.
 
 
 At Retool, we&rsquo;re building the first enterprise AppGen platform: software that transforms natural language into production-ready code, integrates directly with business data, and meets the highest standards of security and governance. AI is redefining what it means to build software&mdash;and who gets to build it. The definition of &ldquo;developer&rdquo; now includes analysts, operators, and domain experts creating solutions directly. As the pool of builders widens, so does the complexity of what they need to build. The opportunity is enormous, but so is the challenge of enabling this larger community to build production-grade software safely. That means AI that understands real business data, enforces enterprise policies automatically, and empowers teams to create once and reuse everywhere with shared, trusted components.
 
 
 Over 100 million hours of work has been automated by developers and domain experts using our platform, freeing them to focus on creative problem-solving and strategic initiatives that drive real business value. The people closest to knowing what needs to be built can now safely create custom solutions within enterprise guardrails. And that's a mission worth striving for.
 
 
 Let's build the future together!
 
 
 
 What You'll Do
 
 
 
 As a member of the Developer Experience (DevX) team, you will build the tools, systems, and processes that enable all engineers at Retool to be productive and ship great code. This includes build systems, release pipelines, testing frameworks, editor extensions, interactive CLIs, and more. You will be part of a team of engineers who are passionate about creating smooth and intuitive tools for their peers and are not afraid to contribute to any part of our codebase.
 
 
 
 In This Role, You Will
 
 
 
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 Build high-quality internal tooling to help our make our developers more productive
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 Identify developer pain points and work with product teams to design solutions
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 Build and improve our CI systems
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 Own the pipelines and processes we use to release code to production
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 Orchestrate large-scale changes and upgrades across the codebase
 
 
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 The Skillset You'll Bring
 
 
 
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 3+ years of experience as an individual contributor on fast-moving engineering teams
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 Passion for building and productionizing developer productivity tools, frameworks, and other aspects of platform engineering
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 Experience with the JavaScript / TypeScript / Node.js ecosystem
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 Experience with Python
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 Experience with Bazel (preferred but not required)
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 You have a track record of building productive, collaborative relationships, both within an engineering org and across the broader company
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 You have a track record of delivering engineering projects and process improvements
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 You're excited by the ambiguity and high-ownership culture of early-stage startups
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 You are pragmatic, solution-oriented, and scrappy
 
 
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 For candidates based in San Francisco, the pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings (OTE) for commissionable roles. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Retool and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors such as (but not limited to), scope and responsibilities, the candidate&rsquo;s experience and qualifications, and location.
 
 
 Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity, and/or commission/bonuses are dependent on the position offered. Retool provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.
 
 
 San Francisco
 
 
 $160,000&mdash;$193,600 USD
 
 
 Retool offers generous benefits to all employees and hybrid work location. For more information, please visit the benefits and perks section of our careers page!
 
 
 Retool is currently set up to employ all roles in the US and specific roles in the UK. To find roles that can be employed in the UK, please refer to our careers page and review the indicated locations.
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Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Notion

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 About Us
 
 
 
 Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life&rsquo;s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email&mdash;with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.
 
 
 In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.
 
 
 
 About The Role
 
 
 
 Millions of people use Notion &mdash; and this number is increasing every day. That means millions of people trust us to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure experience, and we value this more than anything. We want to keep earning trust, while also continuing to amaze our users with the tools they can build in Notion. The Developer Experience team is responsible for architecting, implementing, and scaling the tools and frameworks that Notion developers use to build Notion. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about solving engineering productivity challenges, have deep empathy for other developers, and love to communicate with engineers. You don't need to have experience in this domain but willing to advocate for developer experience is the key.
 
 
 
 What You'll Achieve
 
 
 
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 Collaborate with engineers across the company to deliver an industry-leading developer experience, along the way working deeply with tools like the TypeScript language server, lint tooling, and the Notion CLI to improve developers&rsquo; day to day experience.
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 Work on the bleeding edge of tooling performance, researching and evaluating new tools and keeping up with new developments in the developer experience space in the JS ecosystem.
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 Work deeply with GitHub and our CI systems to help ensure engineers can merge their code quickly and safely. We aim for all PR CI pipelines to finish within 15 minutes!
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 Take ownership of our development environment and toolchain, and contribute to novel projects across the company to deliver impact.
 
 
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 Skills You'll Need To Bring
 
 
 
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 A drive to make developers&rsquo; lives better: you have a strong interest in keeping engineers in their flow state through better tooling. You like to think critically about the workflows engineers use in their day to day work, finding bottlenecks and thinking outside of the box to find ways to pave a better golden path for engineers to follow.
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 A focus on user experience: you bring care and craft to the user experience you build into your products. Your work emphasizes simplicity, supportability, and ease-of-use, and you communicate clearly with other teams and engineers to get feedback on where we can improve.
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 Multitasker and present: you like interrupts especially if this is blocking engineers.You switch between your project work and day to day developer experience challenges.
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 Interest in learning how things work: you love to learn how the tools you use work at a fundamental level. You get excited at the idea of digging into third-party source code to understand how they work and find new ways to use them.
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 Pragmatic and business-oriented: You care about business impact and prioritize projects accordingly. You don't just go after cool stuff&mdash;you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line. To you, technologies and programming languages are about tradeoffs. You may be opinionated, but you're not ideological and can learn new technologies as you go.
 
 
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 Nice To Haves
 
 
 
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 Familiarity with TypeScript, especially in ways to keep it running smoothly in a large codebase.
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 An interest in automated testing and familiarity with testing best practices
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 Past experience with React and common tooling like React Testing Library
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 Past experience on developer experience teams or related tools
 
 
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 </ul>
 We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you&rsquo;re excited about a role but your past experience doesn&rsquo;t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you&rsquo;re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.
 
 
 Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.
 
 
 Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role&rsquo;s scope and complexity, and the candidate&rsquo;s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco, the estimated base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $250,000 per year.
 
 
 By clicking &ldquo;Submit Application&rdquo;, I understand and agree that Notion and its affiliates and subsidiaries will collect and process my information in accordance with Notion&rsquo;s Global Recruiting Privacy Policy.
 
 
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ExecutivePlacements.com

<div>
 Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma's platform helps teams bring ideas to life-whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
 
 
 More than anything, we seek engineers with strong coding fundamentals and a track record of high quality engineering. We work in a highly collaborative environment, where most projects are owned by small groups of 2-3 people. We strive to foster a positive, inclusive culture - you can read more about ourengineering values on our blog.
 
 
 This role will be based out of our San Francisco or New York hub.
 
 
 
 What You'll Do At Figma
 
 
 
 In 30 days, you will...
 
 
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 Be paired with an onboarding buddy on your team who will help you ramp in our codebase and get to know Figma. You'll move from starter tasks meant to familiarize you with our workflows, to joining your teammates on larger projects
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 Understand how we operate as a business through our comprehensive onboarding program, Figma Today
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 Get to know your Figmates across the company!
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 In 60 days, you will...
 
 
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 Work closely with teammates and partners in Product, Design, Marketing, User Research, and Data Science to build new features and achieve roadmap goals. We prioritize collaboration and cross-functional partnerships, so you won't operate in silos
 </li>
 <li>
 Craft performance objectives with your manager that align to company priorities and career development opportunities
 </li>
 <li>
 Help grow Figma by interviewing candidates for teams across the Engineering organization
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 We'd love to hear from you if you have:
 
 
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 <li>
 Solid technical knowledge of CS fundamentals and data structures
 </li>
 <li>
 Have experience writing clean code in at least one general-purpose language (e.g. C++, JavaScript, Python, Java, etc.)
 </li>
 <li>
 Have worked on projects through school, work, or personal exploration that required solving technical problems
 </li>
 <li>
 Are excited to explore how systems are designed and operate, from infrastructure to UI
 </li>
 <li>
 Communicate well, ask great questions, and enjoy collaborating with others
 </li>
 <li>
 A growth mindset with an eagerness to learn and contribute not only to your engineering team, but the entire organization
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 While not required, it's an added plus if you also have:
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Comfort with Figma products
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
 
 
 
 Pay Transparency Disclosure
 
 
 
 If based in Figma's San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.
 
 
 Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.
 
 
 Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental &amp; vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave &amp; reproductive or family planning support, mental health &amp; wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning &amp; development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma's compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
 
 
 Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub): $155,000$155,000 USD
 
 
 At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status
 
 ,
 
 or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
 
 
 We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.
 
 
 
 Examples Of Accommodations Include But Are Not Limited To
 
 
 
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 Holding interviews in an accessible location
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 Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
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 Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
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 Changing the mode or format of interviews
 
 
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 To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
 
 
 By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.
 
 
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