Senior Software engineer, Founding team

$160,000 - $200,000/Yr

Aviator  - Palo Alto, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Palo Alto, CA

1-10 employees

Publishing Industries

About the position

Aviator is an early stage YC-backed startup building developer tools for high growth companies. We are a team of ex-Googlers with backgrounds building engineering teams at several fast-growing Silicon Valley startups. Our customers include high growth companies such as Slack, Square, Benchling, and Figma. We are looking for early engineers to join our nimble team to build the initial product alongside the founders. This person will be an extension to us, the founders, and have the same voice on the table. We think of early engineers as having the ethos of being a founder themselves.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the users to understand their development needs and use cases to guide our roadmap.
• Build prototypes all the way to final products.
• Collaborate with our founders to gather requirements through detailed technical discussions and brainstorming sessions.
• Explore new product development areas driven by strategic understanding of users landscape.
• Take ownership and drive initiatives for segments within the product.

Requirements

• Shipped full-stack products before - whether it was in your day job or projects outside of work.
• Experience working in low-structure environment, comfortable working with unknowns.
• Passion for building engineering tools, excited about solving problems for engineers.
• Strong communication skills.
• Previous experience building internal engineering tools a plus.
• 5+ years of professional experience.

Benefits

• Health/Dental/Vision
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Transparency - we overshare all investor and company updates with everyone.