Why Searchlight?
- Searchlight is creating a new category of data-driven hiring, focused on data infrastructure that closes the loop between recruiting and post-hire outcomes.
- Fresh funding from top-tier investors like YC, Accel, and Founders Fund
- Fast-growing team tackling an initial $140B market opportunity with a category-defining product
- 77 NPS with customers like Zapier, Udemy, Coinbase, and Upstart
- Women-led and mission-driven company, founders are Forbes 30U30 with backgrounds from Stanford, Uber, Google, and McKinsey
- Opportunity for meaningful ownership, leadership, and autonomy
Recommended Reading: Using Data for Hiring at Zapier
We are looking for a teammate we can count on to:
- Given an initial design and technical plan, consistently deliver an end-to-end new product feature
- Collaborate with other engineers to scope product requirements and write technical specifications
- Be shockingly efficient and results-driven to deliver software improvements to our users
- Produce high-quality, production-ready, readable, maintainable code
Relevant Experience:
- 2-4 years of experience software engineering, preferably at a seed, Series A, or Series B company
- Well-versed in at least one modern engineering framework, and has showed aptitude to pick up new frameworks quickly
- Our stack is React, Apollo GraphQL, Postgres, Node, JavaScript / TypeScript
Success Profile:
- Self-starter and fast learner
- Sharp at problem solving, critical thinking, and systems thinking
- Proactive communicator, both verbal and written, around technical decisions and project deadlines
- Primarily motivated to deliver high impact solutions to users rather than by using the latest coolest technologies
- Biased towards action and speed of delivery rather than quality
- Hungry to accelerate professional and personal growth
Within 1 week you’ll...
- Onboard with our team
- Ship your first commit on day one
- Take on 1-2 small tickets to address bugs or make minor improvements. These will have both front-end and back-end components to help you gain familiarity with our codebase
- Have 1:1s with everyone on the team
- Go through a product orientation to get familiar with the different pieces of our platform
Within 1 month you'll...
- Ship your first major project, which will involve scoping, writing the technical plan (ERD) with your onboarding buddy, submitting your ERD for team review, creating Jira tickets + estimates, writing unit tests, creating incremental pull requests, requesting code review, and finally - deploy!
- Participate in code reviews for other members of the team
- Shadow a few customer and partner meetings every week
Within 6 months you'll...
- Work with the engineering team to scope and ship products
- Help us grow our team by mentoring new engineers, writing internal tooling and documentation, and interviewing new hires
Logistics:
- We are a hybrid team located across several states
- Our EPD team works 3x-a-week from our Jackson Square SF office
- We work synchronously in PDT hours
- Weekly team dinners (remote) sponsored by the company
- Competitive salary, Significant Equity
- 401(k), Unlimited PTO, Health Insurance (100% paid premiums)
Diverse and Inclusive Employer
We’re committed to providing equal treatment and opportunity to all applicants at every stage of the hiring cycle and throughout their life at the company. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected status.
Note: Research says men tend to apply even if they only meet ~60% of the job qualifications, whereas women and other marginalized groups are hesitant to do so. If you don’t match 100% of the job qualifications but think you’d be a great fit, we encourage you to apply!
