Senior Software Engineer

About the role

Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

New York, NY | Engineering / Full Time / Hybrid

About the Company:

Our client builds mission critical infrastructure that helps the world's largest digital platforms stay true to what they stand for. Trust and Safety and AI safety teams at some of the most influential companies in the world need powerful tooling that lets them innovate and adapt as quickly as the threats they face. Those companies rely on this software to write policy, moderate, enforce, investigate, and disrupt threats ranging from organized hate groups to state sponsored disinformation campaigns.

The company is hiring an experienced senior software engineer for the team building its enterprise content safety platform.

Hiring for this role is currently focused on the NYC area. New York holds the largest concentration of the team, and it allows the company to serve both US and EU/UK customers. Applicants from other geographies will be considered, though NYC remains the primary focus. The team believes in the value of frequent in person meetups and learning face to face, and holds at least two company wide events per year. Benefits include health, vision, and dental coverage, and a 401(k) plan with employer matching.

What You'll Do:

Develop the engineering roadmap and guide major product decisions and execution.

Work with some of the most ubiquitous technology companies today to build innovative products at incredible scale.

Work closely with client engineering teams to prioritize improvements and new features that keep existing product offerings sharp and relevant.

Set the company apart as a hub of excellent engineering practices and build a solid foundation for its software.

Mentor junior engineers and build out a growing team, reporting to the Head of Engineering.

Lead product strategy and engineering direction.

Work closely with product designers and safety experts to craft a consumer grade experience for customers.

About You

5+ years of software engineering experience in a fast paced, high growth environment.

Successful track record of building platform level software from the ground up.

Experience using modern open source frameworks and cloud technologies.

Comfort with ambiguity and an ability to take initiative.

Interest in solving some of the world's most pressing problems.

Excellent written and spoken English communication skills. The team is distributed and needs to communicate with each other and with customers quickly and clearly.

Some Nice to Haves

2+ years in a client facing role. Experience working directly with customers is a big plus.

Experience at a startup, or building 0 to 1 products and bringing them to market.

Experience working for a social media, marketplace, or media company, with knowledge of how attackers can abuse these systems.

Why Join

As a senior full stack engineer here, you will be paramount in determining the entire end to end experience for customers, with your work seen, used, and loved by the reviewers and investigators protecting the largest communities in the world. The team is building and implementing an advanced Trust and Safety and AI safety platform, and your customers and partner organizations are some of the world's largest enterprises. Expect a front row seat in tackling the hardest problems on some of the most sensitive, impactful issues.