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Senior Software Engineer, Growth
$225K–$250K
San Francisco, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and scale growth products and experiments that connect students with employers, while shaping technical direction and mentoring engineers.
What you'll do
- Design and ship measurable experiments across onboarding, activation, retention, and notifications.
- Architect and scale distributed systems for millions of users with high availability and performance.
- Partner with product managers and data scientists on growth hypotheses, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Backend and/or full-stack development fundamentals.
- Experience building or working with experimentation platforms, such as feature flagging or A/B testing frameworks.
- Track record of iterative delivery informed by real user data.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, including explaining trade-offs.
Nice to have
- Consumer-facing or growth-focused product exposure.
- Experience in notification, acquisition, authentication/authorization at scale, mobile growth, LLM-powered features, or high-growth environments.
Pay
$225K – $250K USD base salary; equity offered, amount not stated
Tools
Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React, iOS, Android, LLM
AI focus
Familiarity with LLM-powered features or AI-assisted product experiences is extra credit.
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