Staff Software Engineer, Snap Inc.
Full Stack
$222-333k
+ Equity
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Social media & camera company
Job no longer available
Social media & camera company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$222-333k
+ Equity
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.
Role
Who you are
- Lead from the front in terms of technical design and execution
- Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently and solve organizational level challenges
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with high attention to detail
- Experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders at all levels of a company
- Experience in solving open ambiguous problems from product inception to delivery
- Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at significant scale
- Strong JavaScript (and/or TypeScript), HTML, and CSS programming skills
- Knowledge of ReactJS, AngularJS, or similar UI frameworks
- Knowledge of OOP, SOLID and FP
- Solid understanding of object-oriented and functional programming principles
- Understanding of domain-driven design principles
- Understanding CQRS, GraphQL, GRPC, Web GL, Canvas
- Proven knowledge of unit testing
- BS/BA in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of experience
- 11+ years of experience developing Front End software
Desirable
- Advanced degree in a related technical field
- Experience working with large-scale microservices and distributed systems
- Experience with end-to-end testing frameworks (cypress, puppeteer or playwright)
- Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-stakeholder environments
- Experience making critical decisions for complex technical issues in real-time, considering timelines and urgency
- Experience working with a diverse group of engineers
What the job involves
- As a member of the Safety Engineering org, you will prototype, develop and productionize technical solutions to protect user safety on our platform
- Working from our Los Angeles, Mountain View, or Seattle office, you will be tasked with solving interesting technical challenges in the user safety domain, architecting and deploying infrastructure to handle at scale and making our platform safe and secure for millions of Snapchatters
- Lead, design and implement large-scale front-end applications to protect user safety
- Lead, design, implement, and operate our critical and scalable services across the user safety infrastructure
- Work cross functionally to deep dive into open problems to keep abuse off the platform
- Work cross functionally to deep dive into open problems, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products
- Lead the efforts for engineering best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management
- Guide junior engineers on the team from design, code reviews and mentor them
Our take
Snap Inc. is the social-media company behind Snapchat, a mobile app launched in 2011 that prioritises visual and emotive communication over traditional texting. Born from a desire to share real-time moments with authenticity, the app now boasts a massive global reach with daily active users surpassing 460M and monthly active users well beyond 900M.
After rejecting a billion-dollar acquisition offer from MEta Platforms (then Facebook) in 2023, Snapchat entered into a long-term rivalry with Meta's apps (most notably Instagram). Despite the competition, Snap has carved out a distinct place in the social-media landscape by innovating features such as the "Discover" tab, augmented-reality (AR) lenses, in-app gaming, paid subscriptions via Snapchat+, and robust ad-monetisation options.
Snap has yet to post a full-year profit since going public in 2017, but the company is clearly making progress. In Q1 2025 the net loss was narrowed to roughly $140M, down from $305M the year before, and revenue rose 14% to $1.36B. Advertising revenue remains periodic and macro-factors still pose headwinds, yet Snaps enduring popularity and its expanding product mix suggest that further success appears likely.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2016
$1.8bn
SERIES F
Mar 2015
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $2.6bn
Company benefits
- Up to 28 weeks of parental leave and return-to-work program
- Adoption, surrogacy, infertility, and fertility preservation benefits
- Backup child care coverage, center-based care support, & caregiver assistance
- Dependent Daycare Flexible Spending Account
- Short-term disability, long-term disability, basic life insurance, and AD&D insurance
- Services to support your path to parenthood & beyond - fertility support & family planning via Carrot, SNOO, Hinge Health
- Lactation rooms (based on office location) and breastmilk shipping coverage
- For Snap, employees taking care of loved ones with complex, chronic, or ongoing care needs (i.e. parent with Dementia, spouse with Cancer, child with Autism), your family can save time, money, & stress with Wellthy
- Comprehensive medical coverage, including PPO, HDHP with HSA, and HMO options
- Dental coverage, including orthodontia benefits
- Vision coverage, including frame and contact allowance and LASIK benefits
- Free membership to One Medical for primary and urgent healthcare services
- Business Travel Insurance
- Gym perks and discounts
- Team fitness classes and races
- Sports leagues
- Cooking and nutritional workshops
- Well-being reimbursement
- Unlimited access to virtual physical therapy with Anthem
- 15 sessions per year of mental health for you + dependents through Lyra
- Generous time off and leave programs. In the US, this includes the following:
- Up to 3 weeks (120 hours) of vacation time and 1 floating holiday for non-exempt team members
- 12 paid holidays per year
- 15 sick and safe days per year
- Meditation and yoga classes
- Speaker series, classes, and subscriptions to educational programs
- Social gatherings, team outings, and volunteering programs
- Snap Inc. provides a 401(k) plan that allows you to save on a pre-tax, Roth, and after-tax basis for your retirement (yes, we even have the Mega backdoor option!) Snap will also match 100% up to 3% of your contribution and then 50% on your 4th and 5th%
- Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare, daycare and commuter
- Health Savings Account with employer contributions
- Rocket Lawyer memberships
- Financial education programs
- Snap exclusive discounts and perks
- Compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!
Company HQ
Sunset Park, Santa Monica, CA
Leadership
Evan Spiegel
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated from Stanford with a BS in Product Design.
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