Senior Software Engineer, Karat
AI Products
$119-173.3k
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Interviewing Cloud to unlock opportunity
Job no longer available
Interviewing Cloud to unlock opportunity
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$119-173.3k
Salary dependent on location+ Equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make interviews fair, predictive, and enjoyable.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years developing and launching web applications/systems into production environments
- Experience with or exposure to AI/ML technologies and understanding how they can enhance assessment and interviewing products
- Experience integrating LLM APIs, familiarity with knowledge-enhanced language model pipelines, and ability to evaluate and improve AI feature performance
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to balance technical tradeoffs
- Strong proficiency in Ruby, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar languages with experience in modern web frameworks and REST and GraphQL API design
- Experience with system architecture, database design, cloud infrastructure, and deployment technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices including CI/CD, testing strategies, and performance optimization
- Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams with excellent communication skills; can translate complex technical concepts for diverse stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership, including mentoring teammates and driving technical decisions
- Interest in technical interviewing, talent assessment, or educational technology is highly valued
What the job involves
- Our Software Engineering team is dedicated to building the world’s most predictive, inclusive, and fair interviewing products for our clients and technical candidates alike
- As a Senior Software Engineer at Karat, you'll work on our flagship interviewing platform with opportunities to contribute to our AI Products initiatives
- You'll build robust, scalable full-stack solutions while helping to implement AI-enhanced features that transform technical talent assessment
- You'll collaborate closely with product and engineering leadership to execute on our vision of more predictive, inclusive, and fair technical interviewing
- Design and develop sophisticated full-stack systems that power our next-generation interview platform, incorporating AI capabilities where they add the most value
- Build scalable, production-ready infrastructure and services that maintain high standards of performance, reliability, and security
- Create intuitive interfaces and APIs that serve interviewers, candidates, and hiring teams effectively
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product managers, designers, data scientists) to translate complex requirements into elegant technical solutions
- Contribute to architecture decisions that balance innovation with reliability, ensuring our platform evolves while maintaining enterprise-grade stability
- Serve as a technical leader by sharing expertise across engineering teams, promoting best practices, and elevating the overall technical capability of the organization
- Balance short-term deliverables with long-term technical health, addressing both customer-facing features and foundational infrastructure
Our take
Karat is among the leading innovators in the field of technical interviewing. As digital interviews become more commonplace, the company fills the need for an efficient and practical interview solution with its world-first Interviewing Cloud.
Karat was founded upon the core idea that the online interview process is the gateway towards solving economic disparity throughout America. Serving household names such as American Express and Ford, the company uses a global network of experienced engineers to deliver consistent interviews tailored to the needs of the client. Karat makes money via annual subscription fees, and by charging for a set amount of interviews.
Karat conducts thousands of interviews every month on behalf of enterprises and technology companies. To combat systemic barriers to entry for Black engineers in the US tech space, the company has launched Brilliant Black Minds, an initiative that aims to close the interview access gap, and that has received investment from Serena Williams.
Kirsty
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Insights
-15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Highly competitive salary and stock options
- 401(k) with company match
- Generous paid PTO (see below) and Sick Leave (10 days per year)
- Flexible Time Off Policy for salaried positions
- Three weeks accrued per year for hourly positions
- Global Parental Leave (16 weeks paid with additional 8 weeks transition back to work in part-time capacity)
- 20 paid Company Holidays
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance via Cigna or Kaiser (for CA-based employees)
- 100% premium covered for employees
- 70% premium covered for dependents
- FSA, STD, LTD, Standard Life Insurance, and Optional Life Insurance
- Mental Wellness offerings such as Calm, Happify, Talkspace, Modern Health, and more
- $150 per month contribution to miscellaneous benefit/wellness of employee’s choice
Company HQ
University District, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeffrey Spector
(Co-Founder & President)Former Chief of Staff at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Previously Investment Analyst at BFK Asset Management and Vice President at Linktone Ltd. BA Economics from Duke University.
Mohit Bhende
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Advisor at Affinity Inc and Senior Director at XBOX Microsoft. MBA from the University of Pennsylvania.
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