Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, CaptivateIQ
New Product
CA$154.5-224.5k
Toronot rates: $154,500 - $184,713
Commission management platform
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Commission management platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$154.5-224.5k
Toronot rates: $154,500 - $184,713
201-500 employees
Company mission
To modernise the world of incentive compensation in the hope that people will feel more connected at work if there is greater transparency in how they are rewarded for their efforts.
Role
Who you are
- If you love building new experiences, validating assumptions quickly, shaping product direction, and turning abstract ideas into real software, you’ll excel here
- 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
- 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, potentially helping companies make savings on the $800 billion spent each year to manage commission processes. Its no-code SaaS should improve both the efficiency and accuracy of existing legacy processes, providing a much-needed tech overhaul to the sector.
The founding team has real experience with the often over-complicated and cumbersome process of managing commission payments and is joining a raft of companies like UiPath and Celonis in capitalizing on the need to automate sales and finance workflows. CaptivateIQ, founded in 2017, has seen an impressive 600% year-over-year growth and is used by big-name clients like Hopin and ClassPass, attracting healthy investment. This suggests the company is laying firm groundwork in a growing and promising industry.
CaptivateIQ has been smart to keep the platform general enough to apply to any organization needing a performance-based compensation plan. The company's broad customer acquisition and regular funding injections paired with the need for new, robust incentive programmes for scattered and remote workforces has helped CaptivateIQ reach Unicorn status.
Freddie
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. ERGs directly support our company-wide DEI goals as a space for developing and retaining diverse talent 🇺🇸
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mark Schopmeyer
(Co-CEO)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)Former employee at Gusto in Finance and Business Operations. Previously Head of Growth at OrderAhead. Founder of FiveStars. Graduated from Berkley.
Hubert Wong
(CTO)Former Senior Software Engineer at Vungle, OpenTable and CoPilot Labs. BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Berkley.
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