[Hiring] Senior Back End Software Engineer @Draftwise

Role Description

We are looking for an experienced back end software engineer to join our team. As an experienced team member, you will have a broad ownership and impact on the technology, product, and our culture. You will work alongside a first-rate engineering team to implement exciting new features, scale the platform, and to make the platform more performant.

We have challenges at all levels of the stack, including:

• Building beautiful web technology
• Fine tuning LLMs
• Optimizing Postgres and Elasticsearch queries to deal with an ever-growing scale

We’d love for you to take ownership of features, write performant, elegant code, and make meaningful architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• Strong overlap with DraftWise’s company values
• Focus on user impact and passion for shipping high-quality products that delight users
• Extensive and recent experience in Java
• 5+ years as a professional software engineer

Requirements

• Worked with elements in our tech stack:
• Development: Java 21, jOOQ, Dropwizard, Dagger
• Data: Postgres, Elasticsearch, TensorFlow, Keras
• DevOps: AWS, Docker
• Experience in building, deploying, and maintaining deployment infrastructure
• Experience building data-intensive applications such as NLP, search and indexing, and data processing, LLMs
• Interest in being involved in engineering design decisions
• Interest in the data products space, and a love of building tools that help enterprise users to do more

Benefits

• Remote-first work environment (Engineering teams typically span UTC+3 to UTC-5)
• This role is best suited for someone who can work on East Coast time
• Competitive salary
• Equity-based compensation
• Private medical care
• New laptop and a work-from-home stipend for necessary accessories
• Generous PTO / sick leave
• Opportunities to lead our company as we disrupt the legal world

About The Interview

A successful candidate will go through the following process:

• Step 1: Introductory call where we share more about what we are building, and to hear about what kind of work you are seeking. We may dive a bit into your resume, too. Of course, we want to give you an opportunity to ask questions! This should take 30 minutes.
• Step 2: Technical interview where we will ask you to do some coding (in Java). The problem will be related to work we have done, so it will give you a taste for our product space. This should take about 1 hour.
• Step 3: Take home project (~3-4 hours). This involves a more complicated problem, which helps us get a sense of how you approach adding new functionality to a pre-existing code base. Given our remote-first work environment, the project shows us what you can do independently. After you submit your solution, we will have a follow-up call to discuss it and ask about how you went about solving it.

We would love for you to meet other members of the team before you make a decision should an offer be rendered.