Senior Software Engineer
This is a 100% remote job, available to candidates based in the United States.
Groupthink is an early-stage startup building the next generation of meeting facilitation and productivity software. Groupthink helps improve collaboration through video conferencing (our own & others), automatic live note-taking, intelligent group chat with an LLM, and more. You can sign up to try it out in your next meeting at www.groupthink.com
Groupthink is built with PHP / Laravel, React, Python, and AWS. Software development at Groupthink is managed with Github and Groupthink - simple tickets, attached to the relevant repo, with lots of roadmap and tickets to work on at any given moment.
Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll report to Jonathan (cofounder & CTO) alongside a small scrappy team of excellent software engineers who develop Groupthink. You'll regularly interact with the other engineers and the co-founders. You'll implement end-to-end features: frontend implementations based on APIs built by others, APIs that may be implemented on the frontend by another engineer, bot services and lambdas that operate in the middle, plus tests for everything.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for building new features, addressing bugs and technical debt, refining technical designs and architecture, making on-the-fly design decisions for 0-to-1 features, and generally being a very startup-y engineer. You will be building features that are immediately available to customers, notifications that inform customers of important process changes, and services that enable further expansion of Groupthink's capabilities.
You will always be collaborating on day-to-day activities including unblocking other engineers, reviewing PRs, and writing issues. You will also find yourself functioning as a "lead" at times, assessing technical debt, planning sprints, expanding the product roadmap, and recruiting talented team members to join.
Your first 90 days will be focused on shipping your first customer-facing product features. You'll learn the ins and outs of the major repos, how our product and engineering lifecycle operates, how we prioritize new work, and how to perform releases. You will open your first PR in your first week (and probably your first day). You'll immediately improve our software setup process in some way. You'll meet the team, participate in two team meetings each week, and have 1:1s with everyone. You will work with Jonathan to set your objectives and key results for the following quarter. You will likely have an opportunity to travel and meet the entire team in person.
Requirements
The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience working on product-focused software engineering teams. What makes this role "senior" is less about the years worked and more about your ability to exercise independent judgement, move fast, have opinions about the next move and be able to bring others along, and to help people get unstuck. You should be at the point in your career where you are someone other people want to emulate, but aren't arrogant about that. You should be eager to solve customer problems quickly and efficiently, and be ready to experiment with new ideas, put them in front of customers, and then refine and iterate... or scrap them all together.
Experiences:
- 5+ years of experience with Laravel, PHP, React, and JavaScript
- Experience with Docker for local development
- Experience implementing and managing multiple 3rd-party RESTful APIs
Capabilities:
- You are able to travel 4-6 times per year - this team is remote, but we try and get together often
- You enjoy and prefer working remote, and have developed routines and set up a work space that makes this productive and comfortable for you
Nice to Haves
One or more of the following experiences will be helpful to you in this role, but are not required:
Experiences:
- You have played with the technologies we use, including LLMs like GPT-4, vector databases, and video streaming providers
- You have 5+ years experience with Python, including experience with handling audio and video in real-time
- You've worked in a startup that is pre-product/market fit
- You enjoy and prefer working asynchronously, and have developed excellent communication skills to support this preference
Thank you!