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Software Engineer I, Promotions
$140K–$170K
San Francisco, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 1-3 years of full-stack engineering experience.
About the job
Build and improve full-stack promotions products and systems that connect employers with relevant talent and help job seekers discover opportunities.
What you'll do
- Own Promotions initiatives from design through launch, collaborating with product, design, and data teams.
- Build and improve scalable systems for promoted-content delivery, auctions, tracking, attribution, and analytics.
- Use customer feedback and performance data to guide iteration and strengthen production quality.
What they ask for
- Proven ownership of complex software projects, with product judgment and comfort navigating ambiguity.
- Proficiency in Ruby on Rails, Go, or Python.
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems, considering reliability, performance, and data consistency.
- Strong debugging and communication skills; experience investigating production issues across services and data flows.
Nice to have
- Experience with advertising technology, auctions, marketplaces, or recommendation systems.
- Background in attribution, analytics, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, employer-facing or SaaS products, or experimentation.
Pay
$140K – $170K (base salary)
Tools
Ruby on Rails, Go, Python, Cursor, Claude
AI focus
Use AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor and Claude while maintaining code quality and correctness.
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