Senior Software Engineer, Saturn
Android
Social & calendar app for High Schools
Open for applications
Social & calendar app for High Schools
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
Saturn's mission is to build community around the calendar.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of relevant Android product development experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; fluency in English
- Strong leadership and organizational skills with the ability to mentor and motivate team
- An extensive understanding of Kotlin, Coroutines, Jetpack Compose and the Android SDK
- Experience crafting highly performant code and UI layouts, with proficiency in diagnosing performance bottlenecks
- An excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading
- Experience working on consumer-facing products
- Experience integrating and working with Amplitude (bonus points)
What the job involves
- Working on a cross-disciplinary team, leveraging your extensive knowledge and experience building complex apps
- Partnering with Product and Design to craft efficient, performant, and delightful user experiences
- Driving a disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment
- Developing and owning large user-facing features / epics from design through implementation and launch
- Shepherding the app architecture through best practices and engineering excellence
- Playing an important role in leveling up the team’s technical depth and efficiency
- Getting down in the trenches, writing automated tests and providing high quality feedback in code reviews - no task is beneath you
Our take
Saturn is attempting to rejuvenate the social-media space with a calendar-based app for high-schoolers to track their schedules, interact with classmates, and access important information. By layering messaging and other social features on top of a calendar feature, built especially for hectic school schedules, Saturn has seen explosive growth and is now active in institutions across the US.
Despite claiming this early success, the app has more recently been plagued by safety concerns - with parents claiming they were able to create fake profiles with little issue and access information including links to students' other social accounts and even their schedules. It has responded quickly with promises to improve security, but for now the damage to Saturn's reputation is clear - and it may take a while for it to find its momentum again.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$44m
LATE VC
Apr 2019
$9m
SEED
Total funding: $53m
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
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Leadership
Dylan Diamond
(CEO)Attended Wharton in Management with a BS in engineering. Worked at Tesla, and is a Thiel Fellow.
Max Baron
(COO/CSO)Attended Wharton School. Previously founded a brand agency called Havas.
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