Senior Software Engineer, CaptivateIQ
ICM
$154.5-225.4k
Compensation for candidates hired in Canada will be provided in Canadian dollars and may differ from the ranges listed above due to currency conversion + equity
Commission management platform
Be an early applicant
Commission management platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$154.5-225.4k
Compensation for candidates hired in Canada will be provided in Canadian dollars and may differ from the ranges listed above due to currency conversion + equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring joy and transparency to sales performance management.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of software engineering experience shipping real products in fast-moving environments
- Proven success building new products or highly exploratory features (0→1, startups, innovation labs, greenfield initiatives)
- Comfort working with high ambiguity and incomplete information — you can define direction, propose solutions, and move work forward without waiting for perfect specs
- Strong customer empathy and interest in learning directly from users
- Fluency in full-stack development (or strong backend experience paired with solid product instincts), with hands-on experience in Python/Django, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and PostgreSQL
- Solid understanding of system design, APIs, performance, and scalable architecture
- Ability to balance speed vs. quality — you know when to build scrappy and when to build durable
- Excellent communication skills and willingness to collaborate across disciplines
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in the earliest stages of product development — where the problems are ambiguous, the path is undefined, and the focus is on discovering what should exist, not just building what’s already been decided
- This is a highly creative, high-impact engineering role: you’ll help take brand-new concepts from idea → prototype → production, working closely with design, product, and customers. If you love building new experiences, validating assumptions quickly, shaping product direction, and turning abstract ideas into real software, you’ll excel here
- Build 0→1 products: Create new services, features, and user experiences from scratch — often starting with rough prototypes and evolving them into scalable, production-ready systems
- Work through ambiguity: Take loosely defined, abstract problem spaces and transform them into clear technical and architectural approaches
- Partner deeply with product & design: Participate in customer discovery, sketch solutions, propose alternatives, challenge assumptions, and help define what valuable and delightful looks like
- Experiment rapidly: Build POCs, run technical spikes, validate ideas quickly, and iterate based on real customer feedback
- Influence product direction: Bring an engineering-driven perspective to what we build, how we build it, and what tradeoffs are worth making at early stages
- Design and build scalable systems once we validate the direction, balancing speed with long-term maintainability
- Raise the technical bar: Contribute to architectural discussions, coding standards, best practices, and mentoring other engineers
- Own quality end-to-end: From early prototypes to robust production code, you care deeply about reliability, performance, and customer experience
- You’ll help define a brand-new product experience and shape its technical foundation
- You’ll work in a space where engineering has a huge voice in product direction
- You’ll operate at the intersection of creativity, customer needs, and deep technical work
- The problems are meaningful, the ambiguity is real, and your impact will be visible from day one
Our take
CaptivateIQ is an incentive compensation platform using AI to automate commission workflows. Businesses spent an exorbitant amount each year managing commission processes, so the company's no-code SaaS is a welcome overhaul for the sector.
CaptivateIQ's platform improves both the efficiency and accuracy of existing legacy processes, serving any type of organization that utilizes a performance-based compensation plan. The founding team has real experience with the cumbersome process of managing commission payments, which is why they chose to target this particular problem.
CaptivateIQ has been smart in building a more generic product, allowing it to attract big-name clients from different sectors. This broad customer acquisition, atop regular funding injections, has helped CaptivateIQ reach Unicorn status. The company continues to add to its offering, for example with the launch of its AI-powered payee experience in 2025.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$100m
SERIES C
Apr 2021
$46m
SERIES B
Total funding: $159.2m
Company benefits
- 100% of medical, dental, and vision covered including 75% for dependents 🇺🇸
- Unlimited vacation days and quarterly mental health days so you can recharge 🇺🇸
- $1,000 to explore your dream destination on your work anniversary 🇺🇸
- $500 annual professional development stipend to continue growing and learning 🇺🇸
- $500 home office stipend to decorate your home office 🇺🇸
- $1,000 caretaker stipend to make sure our parent colleagues are being supported 🇺🇸
- Virtual team lunches to keep you connected 🇺🇸
- 401k plan to participate in and save towards the future 🇺🇸
- Newest hardware and tools for the job 🇺🇸
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support and celebrate the shared identities and life experiences of communities within CaptivateIQ 🇺🇸
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mark Schopmeyer
(Co-CEO & Co-founder)Former Investment Professional at Carrick Capital Partners and Finance and Strategy Manager at BrightRoll. Former Investment Banking Analyst at Jefferies & Company and Lehman Brothers. BA in Business Administration from Berkley School of Business.
Conway Teng
(Co-CEO & Co-founder)Former employee at Gusto in Finance and Business Operations. Previously Head of Growth at OrderAhead. Founder of FiveStars. Graduated from Berkley.
Hubert Wong
(Principal Engineer & Co-founder)Was CTO of the company for 6 years. Former Senior Software Engineer at Vungle, OpenTable and CoPilot Labs. BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Berkley.
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