Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Prepared
UX Core Team
$180-210k
+ Company equity
Providing real-time data to emergency services
Open for applications
Providing real-time data to emergency services
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$180-210k
+ Company equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
Prepared's mission is to build software that saves lives, facilitating rapid emergency service response by providing real-time data at emergency locations.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re energized by creating the foundations others build on, enjoy working across disciplines, and love taking something ambiguous and turning it into something others can depend on — you’ll thrive here
- Has 5+ years of experience working on modern front-end applications, with deep fluency in React, TypeScript, CSS architecture, and component-based design
- Understands the tradeoffs and challenges of scaling design systems in complex product environments
- Has a track record of cross-functional collaboration, and elevating team-wide standards
- Cares deeply about developer experience, accessibility, performance, and quality — and knows how to embed those values into workflows and systems
- Thrives in ambiguous, 0→1 environments and is comfortable setting vision, creating structure, and iterating in the open
Desirable
- Experience working in or setting up monorepos, internal packages, or platform-level tooling
- Familiarity with Storybook, design tooling APIs, or internal component registries
- Contributions to platform teams, developer experience initiatives, or open-source libraries
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a senior-level engineer to join our new UX Core team — a group focused on building the infrastructure, systems, and standards that empower product teams to deliver world-class user experiences
- As one of the first hires on the UX Core team, you’ll be a key partner in shaping how we build, scale, and deliver exceptional front-end systems that others will build on
- This role is for someone who’s equal parts engineer and systems thinker — someone who sees UX as a shared responsibility and believes front-end excellence requires operational rigor, not just polish
- You’ll partner closely with design, engineering, and platform teams to evolve our front-end architecture, scale our design system, and level up how we build for performance, accessibility, and consistency across every surface
- Architect and scale the foundations of our front-end stack — from reusable component systems to cross-cutting concerns like performance, a11y, theming, and responsiveness
- Drive operational excellence in how we deliver UX — building the workflows, standards, and tooling that enable high-quality product development at scale
- Partner across disciplines with design, product, and platform engineers to solve complex problems and ship cohesive, reliable user experiences
- Influence technical direction with Prepared Frontend, mentoring other engineers and collaborating on long-term strategy and roadmap
- Enable and empower product teams through documentation, onboarding support, and contribution tooling that lowers the barrier to quality work
Our take
Every day, half a million Americans call 911 to report an emergency, and whilst emergency services save lives, their speed and effectiveness are limited by technology. Even though most emergency phone calls are made on smartphones, emergency departments rely exclusively on the anecdotal data provided during phone calls.
Prepared provides a real-time data system for emergency services, allowing 911 callers to livestream, text photo/video messages over SMS, provide pinpoint-accurate GPS location in DMS format and integrate into existing PSAP processes easily. In doing so, Prepared empowers 911 operators to deploy the most effective response for both emergency and non-emergency situations.
The company has shown the potential to significantly innovate upon emergency services (which have traditionally lacked funding). It has also avoided the often long cycle of government procurement by offering the service for free, and currently has over 200 cities signed up, across 40+ states (representing around 20 million citizens). It is unclear how the company will monetise in the future, but it has mentioned a possible freemium element to its service down the line, whilst substantial funding from Andreessen Horowitz, awarded in 2024, will help it to expand its platform.
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Company
Company benefits
- Work on technology that has and will directly save lives
- Work with a small, exceptionally smart team
- Meaningful equity at an early stage company
- Apple equipment
- Full healthcare coverage
- Unlimited PTO
- Dental
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
Leadership
Michael Chime
(Co-Founder & CEO)Mike was chosen as one of 24 world wide to be recognized as a Thiel Fellow. He was awarded a $100,000 scholarship to drop out of Yale University and pursue Prepared.
Dylan Gleicher
(Co-Founder)Dropped out of Yale University studying Computer Science to found Prepared. Dylan loves writing exceptionally high quality code and plays competitive ping pong.
Neal Soni
(Co-Founder)Dropped out of Yale University studying Computer Science to found Prepared. Neal was formally a national champion in Taekwondo and loves rock climbing.
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