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Notion

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 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.
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 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.
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  About The Role
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 As an Early Career Software Engineer at Notion, you&rsquo;ll help shape core user experiences and accelerate how people discover value in Notion. You'll tackle meaningful challenges with increasing autonomy, crafting code that millions of users will experience. You'll take ownership of projects that matter, make critical technical decisions, and contribute your unique perspective to our product vision. Working alongside passionate experts across design, product, and data, you'll help shape the future of how people work.
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 We&rsquo;re hiring early career engineers to join us across several teams at Notion. Your recruiter will partner with you to find the team that best aligns with your interests and where you can make the highest impact.
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 What You&rsquo;ll Achieve
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   Plan, build, and ship product features from conception to launch, then iterate based on insights and user feedback.
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   Improve performance, reliability, and quality of key experiences used by millions of users and thousands of organizations.
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   Run experiments that drive activation, retention, collaboration, and revenue, partnering with design, data science, and research.
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   Build internal tools and platform improvements that help all engineers ship quickly and safely.
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   Contribute to team norms, code quality, and a culture of learning and thoughtful tradeoffs.
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 Areas you might work on
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   Core Notion product features: Help develop, improve, and maintain features for our flagship product, focusing on the editor, databases, sharing, or other key areas that power millions of workflows.
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   AI and automation: Help develop and integrate intelligent features that make Notion more powerful, contextual, and efficient for our users.
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   Growth and activation: Work on features that help new users discover Notion's value, improve onboarding experiences, and increase user engagement.
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   Platform and infrastructure: Contribute to the systems that power Notion's backend services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance as our user base grows.
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 Skills You&rsquo;ll Bring
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   Proven track record of execution: You have a minimum of 1 year (and up to 3 years) of full-time professional engineering experience, including building world-class product experiences as part of an engineering team. You have solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems, with a product-minded, pragmatic approach to solving problems.
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   Thoughtful problem-solving: You approach problems holistically, starting with a clear and accurate understanding of the context. You think about the implications of what you're building and how it will impact real people's lives. You can navigate ambiguity successfully, decompose complex problems into clean solutions, while also balancing the business impact of what you&rsquo;re building.
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   Impact-driven approach to technology: You see technologies as tools to achieve user impact rather than ends in themselves. You care more about building successful systems that solve real problems than about using specific tech stacks or following trends. You stay current with the latest tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and other AI-assisted development environments, you're pragmatic about choosing the right tool for the job, focusing on what delivers the most value to users and the business.
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   Proactive communication and high agency: You own your work, communicating clearly about progress and blockers. You don't wait for instructions for every step but rather show initiative in identifying what needs to be done and driving projects forward. You ask questions when needed while independently finding solutions to problems.
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 Nice to Have
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   Experience with parts of our stack like React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, or with experimentation and analytics tooling.
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   Exposure to distributed systems, observability, CI/CD, or infrastructure fundamentals.
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   An interest in product quality and craft, and in helping others stay in flow.
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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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 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.
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 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.
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 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 or New York City, the estimated base salary range for this role is $126,000 - $180,000 per year.
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 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 and NYLL 144.
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Software Engineer, Fullstack, Early Career

Plaid

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 We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We&rsquo;re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid&rsquo;s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam.
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 Plaid&rsquo;s mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone by making money movement and access to financial data simple and secure. As a Software Engineer, you will design and build the systems that power how millions of people connect to their finances. You will work across the stack, from reliable backend services and APIs to intuitive applications that bring those systems to life. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to ship products that make financial services more accessible and transparent. At Plaid, engineers take ownership early, grow quickly, and see their work reach millions of users.
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   System Design &amp; Development: Build and maintain scalable, reliable backend or fullstack systems and APIs that power Plaid&rsquo;s products.
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   Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define and deliver features that solve real customer problems.
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   Code Quality: Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code. Participate in reviews to maintain high engineering standards.
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   Testing &amp; Debugging: Build automated tests, monitor system performance, and troubleshoot issues in production environments.
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   Continuous Improvement: Contribute to technical design discussions, share best practices, and help improve how we build at Plaid.
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   1-4 years of software engineering experience (post-internship)
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   Proven ability to ship reliable systems or features at scale
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   Strong problem-solving skills. You turn ideas into practical, maintainable solutions.
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   High ownership. You are excited to roll up your sleeves and figure things out that don&rsquo;t have precedent at Plaid.
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   Collaborative mindset. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy working with others to deliver results.
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   Growth oriented. You seek feedback, learn quickly, and take pride in improving your craft.
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 $148,800 - $223,200 a year
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 The target base salary for this position ranges from $148,800/year and $223,200/year in Zone 1. The target base salary will vary based on the job's location.
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 Zone 1 - New York City and San Francisco Bay Area
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 Zone 2 - Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington D.C.
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 Zone 3 - Austin, Boston, Denver, Houston, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego
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 Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Plaid provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience and skillset, and location. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.
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 Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
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 Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected] .
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 Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here .
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Software Engineer

Pinterest

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  About Pinterest
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 Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we&rsquo;re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.
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 Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other&rsquo;s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It&rsquo;s Possible.
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 As a Software Engineer in the Web Platform Team you will drive initiatives that empower developers to build modern world-class web experiences for our Pinners with high productivity, performance and quality. We&rsquo;re looking for someone who is passionate about working up and down the stack, has a growth mindset and isn&rsquo;t afraid to give their opinion on how we can improve. You&rsquo;ll have the opportunity to find creative solutions to thought-provoking problems. Even better, because we covet the kind of courageous thinking that&rsquo;s required in order for big bets and smart risks to pay off, you&rsquo;ll be invited to create and drive new initiatives, seeing them from inception through to technical design, implementation, and release.
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  What You&rsquo;ll Do
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   Build robust frameworks and features that empower hundreds of developers and support millions of users.
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   Enable developers to work more effectively by improving foundational web architecture, builds, CI/CD and testing capabilities.
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   Drive changes that improve overall developer experience for all web engineers across Pinterest.
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   Identify site-wide challenges; propose, test, and ship solutions.
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   Champion and drive large-scale, cross-functional initiatives that improve the Web platform.
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   Increase web stability, scalability, performance and accessibility by implementing the best web development standards.
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   Mentor team members and participate actively in design and code reviews, team processes and architectural decisions.
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   3+ years of experience in FullStack/Web development and a deep understanding of JavaScript, CSS, DOM, HTTP protocol and how the web works.
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   Expertise with technologies such as React, Redux (or other state management solutions), Relay, GraphQL, TypeScript, Jest and React Testing Library.
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   Good knowledge of build tools such as Webpack, Turbopack, or Vite.
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   Familiarity with Node.js, server-side rendering techniques, and frameworks such as Next.js.
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   Experience in Python, Java, C++, or Go or another language and a willingness to learn.
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   Track record of delivering large, cross-functional projects across multiple organizations and being a champion of developer experience, performance and quality.
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   Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams to make platform improvements, test functionality, and evangelize adoption of platform features.
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   Love for Web and drive to keep up-to-date with new technologies, trends and best practices in client architecture.
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  In-Office Requirement Statement
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   We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
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   This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/week and therefore can commute to our San Francisco or Palo Alto office.
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   This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
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 At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.
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  Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
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 US based applicants only
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 $145,524&mdash;$254,667 USD
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  Our Commitment To Inclusion
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 Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.
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Software Engineer, Web

Broccoli AI

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  About Broccoli AI
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 Broccoli is building the AI operating system for the $500B home services market. We deploy intelligent AI agents at the front lines of HVAC, roofing, and other trades businesses to answer calls, engage customers, book jobs, and ensure every lead is captured.
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 Backed by top VCs, we closed a $25M Series A and are scaling fast. We work with leading PE-backed home services platforms and plan to 5x headcount in 2026, creating a rare opportunity to join early and have outsized impact.
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 Why Join Us
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   Make an Impact Early: Launch real features within your first few weeks that get used by real businesses.
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   Define a Category: Help shape how AI employees run the $600B home services market.
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   Speed Matters: We move fast&mdash;shipping in weeks, not quarters.
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   Grow with the Best: Learn directly from experienced founders and engineers who&rsquo;ve built and scaled successful startups before.
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   Collaborative, High-Energy Environment: Work in-office with a small, mission-driven team building world-class AI.
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 What You&rsquo;ll Do
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   Build and maintain components of our AI agent platform, internal tools, and backend systems
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   Develop and test APIs and integrations with external platforms like ServiceTitan
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   Participate in the full product cycle: idea &rarr; prototype &rarr; production
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   Improve agent intelligence and voice performance in real time
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   Collaborate with senior engineers to deliver high-impact features and maintain code quality
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 What We&rsquo;re Looking For
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   1+ year of experience as a software engineer (backend, frontend, or full-stack)
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   Strong understanding of software fundamentals (data structures, APIs, version control, etc.)
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   Excitement to learn fast and contribute across the stack
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   Thrive in a fast-paced, startup-like environment where ownership and initiative matter
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   Excellent communication and teamwork skills
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 Bonus Points If You Have:
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   Experience with AI tools, real-time systems, or telephony
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   Exposure to frameworks like Node.js, Python, or TypeScript
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   Familiarity with LLMs or interest in AI development
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 Perks
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   Top-of-market salary + meaningful equity
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   Build cutting-edge AI that helps real people daily
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   Beautiful office in South Park, San Francisco
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   High-trust, ambitious team, led by repeat founders
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   On-site collaboration 6 days/week&mdash;we believe the best ideas happen in person
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Junior Software Engineer

Chalk

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  Chalk is building the data platform that powers the future of machine learning applications. We tear down complexity, latency, and scale barriers that have traditionally constrained ML capabilities. Our platform combines Rust-speed performance with elegant tools that developers love to use. Leading companies depend on Chalk for everything from stopping fraudulent credit card swipes, diagnosing sepsis, and maximizing clean energy capture. We've recently raised a
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  , led by Felicis.
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  We are hiring Software Engineers to join our team. This is an opportunity to join us in-person as an early employee and make a large impact at a high growth start-up. You will tackle challenging engineering problems with a high degree of autonomy and ownership.
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   We work in-person Monday through Friday in our SF and NY offices. We don&rsquo;t currently offer remote or hybrid positions.
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  We are looking for a software engineer with a strong background in systems engineering. At Chalk we are solving problems drawn from the fields of DBMS query planning &amp; optimization, compilers, and distributed analytical data processing systems.
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  Chalk uses dynamic and static analysis of Python programs in order to optimize arbitrary user Python code, infers and orchestrates infrastructure implied by the structure of that code, and tracks metadata about flow of data through these systems.
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   Work directly with Chalk&rsquo;s co-founders to productionize our first iteration
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   Write Python and Rust
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   Design, implement, ship, and maintain significant components of our query planning and execution engine
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   Iterate rapidly to improve Chalk&rsquo;s platform in response to customer needs
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    What we&rsquo;re looking for
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   2+ years experience of professional backend software engineering experience
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   Strong working knowledge of computer science fundamentals. We&rsquo;re not looking for experience from drilling leet code &ndash; we need folks who are comfortable building and maintaining real systems
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   Comfort with leading development of new components of existing systems, and with taking ownership of existing software
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   Track record of learning new concepts quickly
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   Ability to work autonomously &amp; to make pragmatic tradeoffs with an eye towards business outcomes
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   Strong communication skills
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   Experience implementing data infrastructure
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   Experience with distributed systems/compilers/query planners
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   Experience with Rust
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   Experience with developing PaaS-like software
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    Benefits
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  ⚕️Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
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  🏦 Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Health Savings Account (HSA
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  🦮 Expert Healthcare Guidance
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  💵 Retirement savings
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  🎄15 company holidays each year
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  🏖️15 days of personal time off each year
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  🚌 Flex Commuter Benefits
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  🌮 Daily lunch and dinner on Chalk
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  🥤Office is fully-stocked with drinks and snacks to fuel your work day.
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  🍽️ Staying late? Dinner is on us
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  🚖 Staying even later? Grab an Uber / Lyft home on Chalk
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    Compensation
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  Chalk offers early team members a generous salary + equity package based on experience and competitive benefits.
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  Actual compensation awarded to successful candidates will be based on several factors, including but not limited to: market, location, scope of the position and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process.
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  Our comprehensive total package plays a major role in how we recognize individuals for the impact they will have on Chalk&rsquo;s growth and us achieving our goals.
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    Inclusivity
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  Chalk is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion and provide reasonable accommodations to anyone in need of individualized support.
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JITX

<div><div><div>Principal Full Stack Software Engineer</div><div></div><div><br>
About JITX</div><div></div><div><br>
JITX is revolutionizing circuit board design by making it code-first. Instead of dragging components around in a GUI, engineers write code&mdash;or have AI write it for them&mdash;to define their circuit boards. We're a ~20-person startup building tools that bring software engineering practices to hardware design.</div><div></div><div><br>
The Role</div><div></div><div><br>
We're looking for a principal engineer who can drive technical direction for significant product areas and own them end-to-end. You'll work across our stack&mdash;from user management systems to our core design application&mdash;making architectural decisions that shape how electrical engineers interact with our product for years to come.</div><div></div><div><br>
As a principal engineer, you'll be expected to identify technical debt, propose solutions, and drive consensus around the right path forward. Your first major project will be reworking our user and license management system, which you'll architect and largely implement while coordinating with stakeholders across the company. As you ramp up and build context on our domain, you'll transition to working on critical core runtime components that power our circuit design engine.</div><div></div><div><br>
Beyond your individual contributions, you'll raise the bar for engineering across the team&mdash;through code reviews, technical mentorship, and establishing patterns that others can follow.</div><div></div><div><br>
What You'll Work On</div><div></div><div><br>
User Management Platform</div><ul><li>TypeScript/React frontend</li><li>Python application server</li><li>Database backend currently in PostgreSQL</li><li>Integration with modern auth solutions (WorkOS or similar)</li></ul><div></div><div><br>
Graphical User Interface Application</div><ul><li>Electron based React/TypeScript application</li><li>Custom input handling and rendering (not traditional HTML elements)</li><li>Advanced visualization using PixiJS, with potential migration to WebGL/Three.js</li><li>Complex CSS/styling for polished UI/UX</li></ul><div></div><div><br>
Application Runtime &amp; Architecture</div><ul><li>Algorithm-heavy runtime with complex computational geometry problems</li><li>User-facing Python API for programmatic circuit board design</li><li>Sophisticated architecture driving the application life cycle</li><li>Opportunity to rearchitect core systems to leverage parallel computing and modern hardware capabilities</li><li>Deep technical challenges requiring strong CS fundamentals and architectural vision</li></ul><div></div><div><br>
What We're Looking For</div><div></div><div><br>
Must-haves:</div><ul><li>Extensive full stack experience with TypeScript/React and Python, with a track record of architectural decisions at scale</li><li>Strong algorithmic problem-solving skills with understanding of complexity analysis, graph/tree data structures, and computational efficiency</li><li>Ability to drive technical direction and follow through on architectural decisions across the stack</li><li>Experience identifying technical debt, evaluating tradeoffs, and building consensus around solutions</li><li>Self-directed work style with strong product sense and ability to unblock yourself and others</li><li>Experience gathering requirements from stakeholders and translating them into technical solutions and system designs</li><li>Track record of owning large, complex features from planning through production</li><li>Ability to mentor and raise technical standards across a team through code reviews and establishing best practices</li><li>Comfortable working with ambiguity in a startup environment</li></ul><div></div><div><br>
Nice-to-haves:</div><ul><li>Experience with graphics/visualization libraries (PixiJS, Three.js, WebGL)</li><li>Background in developer tools or technical products</li><li>MongoDB and PostgreSQL experience, or other databases</li><li>Auth/identity management systems (WorkOS, Auth0, etc.)</li><li>Polyglot programming experience&mdash;comfortable across multiple languages and paradigms</li><li>Interest in hardware, electronics, or CAD tools</li></ul><div></div><div><br>
Who You Are</div><div></div><div><br>
You're a veteran software engineer who's worked across multiple environments and knows that early-stage startups offer the best combination of impact and interesting problems to solve.</div><div></div><div><br>
You have a nose for bottlenecks&mdash;you spot where things are getting stuck and jump in to help get features across the finish line. You're naturally curious about architecture, always tinkering to find proactive improvements that can ship quickly. You move fluidly across the codebase and the team, bringing speed without sacrificing quality.</div><div></div><div><br>
Your algorithmic problem-solving is strong and you don't shy away from maths and logic. You're comfortable reasoning about complexity at various levels of abstraction, working with graph and tree structures, and finding elegant solutions to hard computational problems.</div><div></div><div><br>
You're responsible with your craft. You plan, you test, you own large features end-to-end. You think about staging, reliability, and production-readiness from the start, not as an afterthought.</div><div></div><div><br>
At a principal level, you're also a multiplier. You make the engineers around you better through thoughtful code reviews, clear technical communication, and by establishing patterns that scale beyond your own code. You know when to dive deep into implementation and when to step back and focus on architecture and direction.</div><div></div><div><br>
You thrive when given ownership of a problem space. You're the person who asks &quot;why are we building this?&quot; before diving into &quot;how should we build it?&quot; You don't need your hand held, but you're not afraid to raise your hand when you need context or when you spot a problem with the plan.</div><div></div><div><br>
Why JITX?</div><div></div><ul><li><br>
Work on genuinely novel problems at the intersection of software and hardware</li><li>Small team where your work has immediate, visible impact</li><li>Help shape the future of how hardware gets designed</li><li>Collaborate with a team that cares deeply about craft and elegant solutions</li></ul></div>
<div><div>$150,000 - $250,000 a year</div></div>
<div><div>We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.</div></div></div>

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