Associate Software Engineer (College Graduate 2027)

At Solace, you won’t be relegated to small bug fixes or endless onboarding—you’ll ship real features to real users within your first weeks

This isn’t a hand-holding job

You’ll be challenged daily, expected to move fast, learn faster, and take ownership of your work like a seasoned engineer

You’ll join a spectacularly talented team who will push you to grow, but you’ll also be expected to think independently, ask the right questions, and own your work from design through deployment

You will commit code daily

You will make mistakes

You will learn from them and get better every single day

If you’re the kind of person who wants to be thrown into the deep end and come out stronger, keep reading

Ship production code in your first week—real features that impact real users

Build across the stack, from database queries to API endpoints to UI components, learning the full lifecycle of software development

Take ownership of features end-to-end. You’ll be accountable for what you build, and you’ll feel the weight and pride of that responsibility

Work directly with senior engineers, product managers, and designers. You’ll have mentorship, but you’ll also be expected to drive your own work forward

Debug production issues, refactor messy code, and improve systems—not glamorous, but essential, and you’ll learn more from this than any bootcamp could teach you

Move fast and iterate. We deploy continuously, and you’ll see your code in production within hours, not weeks

Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and product planning. Your voice matters here, even on day one

What You’ll Learn:

You’ll be working in our modern tech stack and will gain hands-on experience with:

Typescript across all our applications

NestJS API with TypeORM

Postgres and Redis

React with our custom UI library built on shadcn

Tailwind CSS

You are scrappy, resourceful, and eager to prove yourself. You don’t need all the answers—you need the drive to find them. You’re not afraid of ambiguity or hard problems; in fact, they excite you. You take feedback like fuel, and you’re looking for a place that will invest in making you exceptional, not comfortable

Experience with at least one modern programming language (TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, etc.). Bonus if you’ve worked with TypeScript, React, or Node.js

Grit. You don’t give up when things get hard. You Google, you ask questions, you figure it out

A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)—graduating between December 2026 and June 2027

Strong communication skills. You can explain your thinking, take feedback without defensiveness, and collaborate with people who aren’t engineers

A hunger to learn and an ego small enough to admit when you don’t know something

Solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and software design

Projects that show you can build real things—personal projects, hackathons, internships, open source contributions. We care about what you’ve shipped, not just what you studied

Extreme bias toward action. You’d rather ship something imperfect and iterate than wait for perfect