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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
 
 
 
 We're looking for an AI Product Engineer to join the team responsible for Notion's database block&mdash; which powers views like tables, galleries, charts, forms, and more. As a strategic partner in shaping Notion's AI vision, you'll help define and build cutting-edge AI-powered features into this core product experience, leveraging LLMs, embeddings, and other AI technologies to make Notion's databases more intelligent and capable.
 
 
 
 What You&rsquo;ll Achieve
 
 
 
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 Work with the team to prototype and experiment with new AI features
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 Productionize and launch new AI technology integrations into Notion&rsquo;s core product
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 Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver product features on time
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 Stay up-to-date with the latest AI technologies and trends
 
 
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 Skills You'll Need To Bring
 
 
 
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 Expertise building and prototyping: You have experience building AI products using LLMs, embeddings and other ML technologies. You understand how parts of a system fit together from UI to data model, are familiar with relational databases like Postgres or MySQL, and have experience building products from ground up.
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 Shipping quality user interfaces: You partner closely with product and design to craft beautiful user experiences for large audiences, leveraging web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and a modern UI framework like React.
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 Problem-solving: You approach problems holistically, starting with a clear and accurate understanding of the context. You think critically about the implications of what you're building and how it will impact real people's lives. You can navigate ambiguity flawlessly, decompose complex problems into clean solutions, while also balancing the business impact of what you&rsquo;re building.
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 Empathetic communication and collaboration: You communicate nuanced ideas clearly, whether you're explaining technical decisions in writing or brainstorming in real time. In disagreements, you engage thoughtfully with other perspectives and compromise when needed. You enjoy collaborating with both fellow engineers and cross-functional partners. You are a lifelong learner and invest in both your own growth and the growth, learning, and development of your teammates.
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 Impact-orientation and user focus: You care about business impact and prioritize projects accordingly. You understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line. You think critically about the implications of what you're building, and how it shapes real people's lives. You understand that reach comes with responsibility for our impact&mdash;good and bad. Work isn't a solo endeavor for you, and you enjoy collaborating cross-functionally to accomplish shared goals.
 
 
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 Nice To Haves
 
 
 
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 You're proficient with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Postgres.
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 You have experience driving teams toward shared goals and can balance business priorities with individuals&rsquo; strengths, areas of interest, and career development goals.
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 You've heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others&mdash;and understand why we're big fans of their work.
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 You have interests outside of technology, such as in art, history, or social sciences.
 
 
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 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 and New York, the estimated base salary range for this role is $190,000 - $285,000 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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Software Engineer, AI Product

Beacon Software

<div>
 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

Atlassian

<div>Overview:

Working at Atlassian
Atlassians can choose where they work &ndash; whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.
Responsibilities:

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Atlassian, you&rsquo;ll be at the forefront of applied AI, working directly with customers and cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, AI-powered solutions. The FDE team partners with top organizations across industries, helping them leverage Atlassian&rsquo;s AI capabilities to solve complex, real-world problems. You&rsquo;ll collaborate with product, engineering, and design, rapidly growing your technical and domain expertise while making a tangible impact on business outcomes. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role for those who thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and are passionate about shaping the future of AI-powered teamwork.
What you&rsquo;ll do
As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you will:<ul><li>
Lead the design, development, and deployment of AI/ML-powered solutions tailored to customer needs, leveraging frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and agent-based platforms (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex).</li><li>
Architect and implement robust application integrations using Python, JavaScript, or similar languages, with a focus on APIs, microservices, and enterprise-scale systems.</li><li>
Drive data-driven solution development by analyzing complex datasets to extract insights and inform product direction.</li><li>
Champion the adoption of AI-augmented workflow automation within customer environments, maximizing business value and operational efficiency.</li><li>
Oversee the end-to-end deployment of AI solutions into production, ensuring continuous evaluation, monitoring, and improvement.</li><li>
Navigate risk and compliance requirements, including AI risk assessment, data privacy (GDPR), and regulatory frameworks.</li><li>
Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.</li><li>
Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, creating concise artifacts for peers, partners, and leadership.</li><li>
Align technical solutions with business objectives, setting a clear vision for technological progress and measurable results.</li></ul>
Qualifications:

On the first day, we'll expect you to have:<ul><li>
Bachelor&rsquo;s or Master&rsquo;s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.</li><li>
5+ years of experience in backend software development.</li><li>
3+ years of experience delivering impactful AI/ML solutions in production environments, including experience as a founding or forward-deployed engineer in 0-to-1 product development.</li><li>
Deep expertise in applied AI/ML, including generative AI, LLMs, and agent-based frameworks.</li><li>
Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, or similar languages, and experience with APIs, microservices, and enterprise integration.</li><li>
Demonstrated ability to solve complex, ambiguous problems and thrive in rapidly changing environments.</li><li>
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience influencing cross-functional teams without formal authority.</li><li>
Experience with AI risk assessment, data privacy, and compliance (e.g., GDPR).</li><li>
Strategic and innovative thinking, with a track record of aligning technical solutions to business goals.</li></ul>
It's great, but not required, if you have:<ul><li>
Experience with Atlassian Intelligence, Rovo AI, or AI-powered Atlassian features.</li><li>
Familiarity with regulated industries (e.g., finance, healthcare).</li><li>
Experience deploying AI solutions to complex production systems at scale.</li><li>
Prior experience mentoring or leading engineering teams.</li></ul>
Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $176,400 - $230,300
Zone B: $159,300 - $207,975
Zone C: $146,700 - $191,525
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
Benefits &amp; Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.</div>

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AI (Remote)

Think Big Solutions

About the Role: We&rsquo;re looking for an experienced engineer with hands-on expertise in building and deploying agentic systems and large-scale data pipelines. This is a high-impact founding opportunity for someone who thrives in fast-paced startup environments and wants to shape the technical direction from day one.You&rsquo;ll play a pivotal role in building the core AI infrastructure, collaborating directly with leadership to turn complex problems into scalable, production-ready systems.Responsibilities:<ul><li>Architect and deploy scalable backend systems and cloud infrastructure for AI-driven products.</li><li>Lead technical design and decision-making for new systems and tools.</li><li>Build reliable APIs and data pipelines supporting interoperability across healthcare systems.</li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally with leadership, engineering, and product teams.</li><li>Take full ownership from design to deployment and ongoing optimization.</li></ul>Requirements:<ul><li>5&ndash;15 years of professional software engineering experience.</li><li>Proven experience leading teams or acting as a founding/principal engineer in startup environments.</li><li>Strong background in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Next.js.</li><li>Proficiency with AWS, Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.</li><li>Familiarity with Postgres and scalable cloud architecture.</li><li>Understanding of HIPAA or regulated environments is an asset.</li><li>Degree from a top 50 U.S. university preferred.</li></ul>What&rsquo;s Offered:<ul><li>Competitive compensation package (base + equity)</li><li>Full health, dental, and vision coverage</li><li>Wellness and gym membership allowance</li><li>Option to live and collaborate in a 3,500 sq. ft. hackerhouse</li><li>Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technologies shaping the future of healthcare</li></ul>Job Type: Full-timePay: $120,000.00 - $250,000.00 per yearWork Location: In person

Founding DevOps Engineer

Hinge Health

<div>Overview:

About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer at Hinge Health, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale software solutions that directly impact our members&rsquo; health outcomes. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners, including product managers and designers, to deliver new product capabilities and improve the maintainability, availability, and performance of our features. This role is essential to advancing our mission of transforming joint and muscle care through technology, including the integration of AI-driven solutions to automate and enhance care delivery. Hinge Health software engineers work on small interdisciplinary teams focused on different parts of the user journey.
The ROI Pod (Return on Investment Identification &amp; Measurement Pod) at Hinge Health is a cross-functional team, bringing together Data Engineering, Data Science, Health Economics, Product, and Software Engineering. Our mission is to build advanced tools and analyses that identify and measure ROI, directly supporting Hinge Health&rsquo;s goal of delivering measurable value to clients and driving &gt;1x ROI for all clients in 2026 and beyond. The pod&rsquo;s work spans optimizing targeted enrollment using predictive models, personalizing interventions to maximize clinical and economic impact, and automating client-facing ROI analyses to accelerate and scale reporting.
As a Senior Software Engineer in the ROI Pod, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale data infrastructure and automation systems that power our ROI measurement and reporting. You&rsquo;ll collaborate closely with data scientists, health economists, and product managers to deliver new capabilities, such as automating claims data ingestion, standardizing data pipelines, and expanding targeted enrollment. Your responsibilities will include breaking down complex problems into manageable tasks, delivering robust and scalable solutions, and proactively improving the maintainability and performance of our systems. You&rsquo;ll also mentor junior engineers, contribute to architectural decisions, and help integrate AI-driven solutions to enhance automation and insight generation. This role is essential to advancing Hinge Health&rsquo;s mission of transforming joint and muscle care through technology and data-driven outcomes.
We enjoy a continuous deployment DevOps culture, and take owner-operator pride in supporting our code in production. Our production systems rely on React Native, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Nestjs, GraphQL, Docker, Rails, AWS, Postgres, Redis, Apollo, and Redux. Our workflow is trunk-based CI/CD, and our security/compliance posture is at the highest standards of healthcare, including HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and CCPA. 
What You&rsquo;ll Accomplish<ul><li>
Deliver large projects that introduce new product capabilities, often acting as a maintainer for key code repositories.</li><li>
Break down complex problems into manageable tasks, ensuring steady and predictable delivery while identifying and resolving root causes of incidents.</li><li>
Collaborate with your team to roadmap and execute ambitious technical strategies, balancing short-term and long-term trade-offs.</li><li>
Mentor and support junior engineers, providing thoughtful code reviews and real-time pairing.</li><li>
Integrate and leverage AI technologies to automate processes and enhance product features, contributing to Hinge Health&rsquo;s AI-driven care platform.</li><li>
Proactively improve the maintainability, availability, and performance of the team&rsquo;s features, and contribute to the team&rsquo;s overall architecture and developer tooling.</li><li>
Communicate technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical partners, and document solutions for future reference.</li></ul>
Hinge Health Hybrid Model
We believe that remote work and in-person work have their own advantages and disadvantages, and we want to be able to leverage the best of both worlds. Employees in hybrid roles are required to be in the office 3 days per week, for the full 8 hours of a typical business day. The San Francisco office has a dog-friendly workplace program. 

Qualificatons:

 Basic Qualifications<ul><li>
Bachelor&rsquo;s Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field</li><li>
5+ years of non-internship full time professional software development experience</li><li>
4+ years of experience with at least one software programming language</li><li>
4+ years of experience in the full software development life cycle</li><li>
Experience delivering large software projects or features in a production environment</li><li>
Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript, etc.)</li></ul>
Preferred Qualifications<ul><li>
Experience with AI technologies for software design and coding assistance</li><li>
Experience mentoring or onboarding junior engineers</li><li>
Familiarity with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or scalable architectures</li><li>
Experience with healthcare technology or regulated environments</li><li>
Experience with Agile development practices</li></ul>
Compensation
This position will have an annual salary, plus equity and benefits. Please note the annual salary range is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. The annual salary range for this position is $148,000 - $222,000. 

Company Information:

About Hinge Health
Hinge Health leverages software, including AI, to largely automate care for joint and muscle health, delivering an outstanding member experience, improved member outcomes, and cost reductions for its clients. The company has designed its platform to address a broad spectrum of MSK care&mdash;from acute injury, to chronic pain, to post-surgical rehabilitation&mdash;and the platform can help to ease members&rsquo; pain, improve their function, and reduce their need for surgeries, all while driving health equity by allowing members to engage in their exercise therapy sessions from anywhere. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more at http://www.hingehealth.com
What You'll Love About Us<ul><li>
Inclusive healthcare and benefits: On top of comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, we offer employees and their family members help with gender-affirming care, tools for family and fertility planning, and travel reimbursements if healthcare isn&rsquo;t available where you live.</li><li>
Planning for the future: Start saving for the future with our traditional or Roth 401k retirement plan options which include a 2% company match.</li><li>
Modern life stipends: Manage your own learning and development</li></ul>
Culture &amp; Engagement
Hinge Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We make employment decisions without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you feel you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, let us know by reaching out to your recruiter.
By submitting your application you are acknowledging we are using your personal data as outlined in the personnel and candidate privacy policy.</div>

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Mercor

<div>
 
 About Mercor
 
 
 
 Mercor is at the intersection of labor markets and AI research. We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development.
 
 
 Our vast talent network trains frontier AI models in the same way teachers teach students: by sharing knowledge, experience, and context that can't be captured in code alone. Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $1.5 million a day.
 
 
 Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You&rsquo;ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society.
 
 
 Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our new San Francisco headquarters.
 
 
 
 About The Role
 
 
 
 As a Software Engineer at Mercor, you&rsquo;ll join a small, product-driven engineering team building modern backend systems that power critical workflows for some of the most advanced AI companies in the world. You&rsquo;ll own projects end-to-end, designing, building, and shipping production systems that directly impact customers. From day one you&rsquo;ll write production-grade code, reason about systems holistically, and make decisions that tie directly to business outcomes. You&rsquo;ll work closely with product and design, moving fast while upholding a high bar for code quality, scalability, and simplicity.
 
 
 At The End Of The Process, You&rsquo;ll Be Team-matched To Where You Can Have The Most Impact, On One Of The Following
 
 
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 Talent platform side &ndash; building next-generation tools that automate recruiting end-to-end, intelligently match candidates to roles, and power global hiring with seamless contracts and payments.
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 Applied AI/human data side &ndash; partnering with top AI researchers from the AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to create post training datasets to improve foundational model capabilities.
 
 
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 What You&rsquo;ll Do
 
 
 
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 Design and build scalable backend APIs, services, and infrastructure.
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 Collaborate across the stack with product and design to ship features quickly.
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 Write clean, maintainable code and contribute to documentation.
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 Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and retros.
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 Solve real-world customer problems under real-world constraints.
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 Contribute to core systems that power training, evaluation, and scaling for leading AI labs.
 
 
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 </ul>
 
 What We&rsquo;re Looking For
 
 
 
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 Strong coding fundamentals in at least one modern language (Python, Go, Rust, etc.).
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 Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
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 Familiarity with APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).
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 Bias toward ownership, curiosity, and asking the right questions.
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 Ability to break down ambiguity and ship simple solutions to complex problems.
 
 
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 </ul>
 
 Why Mercor
 
 
 
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 Impact: Your work powers how the world&rsquo;s leading AI labs train and test their models.
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 Learning: Get early insights into frontier model capabilities months before the market.
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 Growth: Work on both infrastructure and research-adjacent projects with fast paths to ownership.
 
 
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 Benefits
 
 
 
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 Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
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 A $20K relocation bonus (if moving to the Bay Area)
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 A $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
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 A $1K monthly stipend for meals
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 Free Equinox membership
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 Health insurance
 
 
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 Compensation Range: $130K - $500K
 
 
</div>

Software Engineer, Backend

Genentech

<div><div><div>THE POSITION</div>
A healthier future. It&rsquo;s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That&rsquo;s what makes us Roche.
Advances in AI, data and computational sciences are transforming drug discovery and development. Roche&rsquo;s Research and Early Development organizations at Genentech (gRED) and Pharma (pRED) have demonstrated how these technologies accelerate R&amp;D, leveraging data and novel computational models to drive impact. Seamless data sharing and access to models across gRED and pRED are essential to maximising these opportunities. The Computational Sciences Center of Excellence (CS CoE) is a strategic, unified group whose goal is to harness the transformative power of data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assist our scientists in both pRED and gRED to deliver more innovative and life-changing medicines for patients worldwide.
Within the CS CoE organisation, the Data and Digital Catalyst (DDC) organization leads the modernization of our computational and data ecosystems by integrating digital technologies across Research and Early Development to empower stakeholders, advance data-driven science and accelerate decision-making.
The Solutions team within the DDC Organization develops modernized and interconnected computational and data ecosystems. The Data Ecosystem is foundational to building solutions that accelerate the work done by our Computational and Bench Scientists and enable ML/AI tool creation and adoption. Our team specializes in building Data Pipelines and Applications for data acquisition, collection, storage, transformation, linkage and sharing.
As a Software Engineer in the Solutions Engineering capability, you will work closely with colleagues such as Data Engineers, Product Leaders, and Tech/ML Ops as well as directly with our key partners including Computational Scientists and Research Scientists. You'll build robust and scalable systems that unlock the potential of our diverse scientific data, accelerating the discovery and development of life-changing treatments for patients. As part of this role, you&rsquo;ll contribute to building a modern, scalable and robust ecosystem of applications, agents and other tools to capture, move and prepare the scientific data for analysis.
You are passionate about building scalable, reliable, and reusable capabilities for our shared platform. As a software engineer with strong experience in backend and/or frontend development, you design and implement components with scalability and reliability at their core. You bring hands-on expertise in cloud technologies and follow engineering best practices&mdash;including code reviews, unit testing, and adherence to coding standards&mdash;while boosting productivity through AI-powered development tools and environments.
Ideally, you are a full-stack software engineer or data engineer with domain knowledge in biology, chemistry, drug discovery, translational medicine, or a related scientific discipline. You thrive on leveraging platform components to build common solutions, and you excel at engaging with scientific stakeholders to understand their challenges and translate them into effective technology solutions in close collaboration with Product and Engineering teams.
The Opportunity:<ul><li>
Proven track record of leading and delivering complex, user-friendly projects and tools in a fast-paced environment</li><li>
Strategic/Tactical Technical leadership for the ongoing initiatives and by identifying new opportunities with an eye for consolidation, deprecation and building common solutions</li><li>
Responsible for technical excellence and ensuring our solutions and capabilities are innovative, best-in-class and integrated by delivering data flows and pipelines within and across DDC and key domains like Research Biology, Drug Discovery, Translational Medicine and Development and more</li><li>
Learn, deeply understand and improve our Data Workflows, Application Architecture and Data Ecosystem by leveraging standard patterns like layered architecture, microservices, event-driven, multi-tenancy, etc.</li><li>
Responsible for ensuring our technical choices are innovative, best-in-class and are inter-operable and consistent across DDC and domains like Research Biology, Drug Discovery, Translational Medicine and Development and more</li><li>
Understand and influence technical decisions around data workflows and application development while working collaboratively with our key partners</li><li>
Integrate diverse sets of data together to power AI/ML and Natural Language Search, as well as enable our downstream teams working on Workflows, Visualization and Analytics</li><li>
Facilitate the implementation of AI models that take advantage of advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence</li></ul>
Who You Are:<ul><li>
Bachelor&rsquo;s or Master&rsquo;s degree in Computer Science or similar technical field, or equivalent experience and 7+ years of experience in software engineering</li><li>
Deep experience and technical understanding of modern web application development, platforms and data engineering approaches, including data flow within the cloud and cutting-edge data storage solutions</li><li>
Deep experience in full stack development is required. You have strong skills building Front Ends using JavaScript, React or similar Libraries as well as Backends using high level languages like Python or Java</li><li>
Extensive experience working with Databases, Data Analytics (SQL/NoSQL, ETL, ELT) and APIs (REST, GraphQL) is preferred</li><li>
Extensive experience working on cloud-native architectures in public clouds (ideally AWS) is preferred</li><li>
Experience with building Designs for Data Applications which are highly reliable, scalable, performant, secure and robust and ideally on a public cloud platform</li><li>
Adopts and champions an Open Source, Cloud First, API First and AI First approach to problem-solving by identifying key trends, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and influencing their adoption to deliver innovative solutions</li><li>
Ability to think strategically and optimize for the long term while acting with a sense of urgency</li><li>
Provide technical mentorship and leadership to junior developers, fostering professional growth and taking accountability for upholding high coding standards</li><li>
Outstanding communication skills, capable of articulating technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences, including executives and globally distributed technical teams, ensuring effective collaboration and understanding</li><li>
Experience reducing Tech Debt and consolidating and deprecating legacy solutions</li><li>
Experience in integrating AI into applications and development practices is a plus</li></ul>
Onsite presence, on our South San Francisco campus, is expected for at least 3 days a week.
Relocation benefits are available for this job posting.
The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of California is $162,600 - $302,000. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.
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<div><div>JOB FACTS
</div><div><div><ul><div>Job Sub Category
Research Informatics
</div><div>Schedule
Full time
</div><div>Job Type
Regular
</div><div>Posted Date
Nov 10th 2025
</div><div>Job ID
202511-129115</div></ul></div></div></div></div>

Principal Software Engineer, Solutions

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