Senior Software Engineer

Who you are

• 6+ years of software engineering experience shipping real products in fast-moving environments
• Proven success building new products or highly exploratory features (0→1, startups, innovation labs, greenfield initiatives)
• Comfort working with high ambiguity and incomplete information — you can define direction, propose solutions, and move work forward without waiting for perfect specs
• Strong customer empathy and interest in learning directly from users
• Fluency in full-stack development (or strong backend experience paired with solid product instincts), with hands-on experience in Python/Django, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and PostgreSQL
• Solid understanding of system design, APIs, performance, and scalable architecture
• Ability to balance speed vs. quality — you know when to build scrappy and when to build durable
• Excellent communication skills and willingness to collaborate across disciplines

What the job involves

• We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in the earliest stages of product development — where the problems are ambiguous, the path is undefined, and the focus is on discovering what should exist, not just building what’s already been decided
• This is a highly creative, high-impact engineering role: you’ll help take brand-new concepts from idea → prototype → production, working closely with design, product, and customers. If you love building new experiences, validating assumptions quickly, shaping product direction, and turning abstract ideas into real software, you’ll excel here
• Build 0→1 products: Create new services, features, and user experiences from scratch — often starting with rough prototypes and evolving them into scalable, production-ready systems
• Work through ambiguity: Take loosely defined, abstract problem spaces and transform them into clear technical and architectural approaches
• Partner deeply with product & design: Participate in customer discovery, sketch solutions, propose alternatives, challenge assumptions, and help define what valuable and delightful looks like
• Experiment rapidly: Build POCs, run technical spikes, validate ideas quickly, and iterate based on real customer feedback
• Influence product direction: Bring an engineering-driven perspective to what we build, how we build it, and what tradeoffs are worth making at early stages
• Design and build scalable systems once we validate the direction, balancing speed with long-term maintainability
• Raise the technical bar: Contribute to architectural discussions, coding standards, best practices, and mentoring other engineers
• Own quality end-to-end: From early prototypes to robust production code, you care deeply about reliability, performance, and customer experience
• You’ll help define a brand-new product experience and shape its technical foundation
• You’ll work in a space where engineering has a huge voice in product direction
• You’ll operate at the intersection of creativity, customer needs, and deep technical work
• The problems are meaningful, the ambiguity is real, and your impact will be visible from day one

Benefits

• 100% of medical, dental, and vision covered including 75% for dependents
• Unlimited vacation days and quarterly mental health days so you can recharge
• $1,000 to explore your dream destination on your work anniversary
• $500 annual professional development stipend to continue growing and learning
• $500 home office stipend to decorate your home office
• $1,000 caretaker stipend to make sure our parent colleagues are being supported
• Virtual team lunches to keep you connected
• 401k plan to participate in and save towards the future
• Newest hardware and tools for the job
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support and celebrate the shared identities and life experiences of communities within CaptivateIQ