Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer - Platform

Desmos Studio is a Public Benefit Corporation focused on enhancing math learning experiences through innovative tools. The Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer will work on improving user experiences and developing new features for the platform, contributing to the company's mission of making math accessible to everyone.

Responsibilities:

• How a healthy engineering culture helps build production-quality software
• Lessons you’ve learned from your experiences in prior roles as a full-stack engineer working on SaaS products
• Design decisions in a project you led, including alternatives and trade-offs you made
• Comfort with jumping into multiple areas of a codebase, such as Typescript, Postgres, and HTML/CSS
• Introduce yourself on Slack to your new co-workers!
• Learn about our process for writing, testing, and deploying code
• Ship your first piece of code to production!
• Familiarize yourself with Typescript and our in-house, front-end framework
• Complete your first user-facing feature in collaboration with product and design
• Start reviewing code from other engineers on the team, bringing your keen eye for pragmatic and elegant solutions to challenging problems
• Be the technical lead on your first project, guiding it from design to implementation
• Participate in experimentation and review data to help inform product features
• Get to know our users and better understand the role that Desmos plays inside and outside of the classroom
• Help the team enter a promising new market outside of K-12 education
• Become the company’s expert on one or more areas of the code base
• Help hire and onboard new members of the engineering team
• Take a vacation to recharge. We do our best work when we’re happy and well-rested

Requirements:

• Experience as a full-stack engineer working on SaaS products
• Comfort with jumping into multiple areas of a codebase, such as Typescript, Postgres, and HTML/CSS
• Ability to teach others about a healthy engineering culture and its impact on production-quality software
• Experience in making design decisions in projects, including alternatives and trade-offs
• Keen eye for pragmatic and elegant solutions to challenging problems
• Ability to guide projects from design to implementation as a technical lead
• Experience in reviewing code from other engineers