Solutions Engineer, Snap
4+ days a week in office
Social media & camera company
Open for applications
Social media & camera company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
4+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.
Role
Who you are
- Ability to work with open source technologies
- Ability to mentor and provide guidance to more junior team members
- Strong written and verbal communications skills
- Strong relationship development and collaboration skills
- BS in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of experience
- 3+ years of experience as a software or solutions engineer shipping reliable, scalable, and efficient code
- Experience coding in Javascript, building applications and APIs/SDKs for internal and external developers
Desirable
- Advanced degree in computer science or computer engineering
- Experience working with cross functional stakeholders to define business requirements and product roadmaps
- Experience working with large SaaS, PaaS and cloud platforms and building applications for third-party marketplaces
What the job involves
- Snap Engineering teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snapchatters around the world, every day. We’re deeply committed to the well-being of everyone in our global community, which is why our values are at the root of everything we do. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront
- We're looking for a Solutions Engineer to join Snap Inc!
- Build new products and improve existing ones
- Collaborate with Snap product engineering teams and cross functional partners to meet business needs
- Understand and apply deep knowledge of products, technologies, and business to build solutions to solve for problems at scale
- Design and build end-to-end systems and launch-plan strategies
- Use broad range of technical and soft skills to build productive relationships with partners and independently resolve complex technical and business needs while contributing to partner documentation
- Apply expertise and product insight to deliver high-quality project/integration/partner engagements, while influencing product roadmap to meet the business needs
- Write and ship reliable, scalable, and efficient code
- Build and improve solutions in collaboration with engineering, product, and cross functional partners
- Identify and surface insights using metrics on product usage to increase adoption and provide new solutions that address the needs of partners
- Work with partners to develop a long-term strategic plan, grounded on business objectives, and manage partners during integrations with Snap’s platform products and ensure value creation
Our take
Snap is the social media giant that owns Snapchat, a social media mobile app released in 2011. Created to serve as a more emotive communication form than texting, the app has gained mass popularity, reaching upwards of 400 million daily users worldwide.
After rejecting a billion dollar acquisition from Meta (then Facebook) in 2013, Snap has found itself in competition with the social media giant, particularly with Instagram. Despite this, the company has marked a place for itself in the ever competitive social media space through developing features like a Discover tab, augmented reality lenses, in-app games, ads and monetisation options, as well as launching its paid service, Snapchat+.
Snap has so far not earned an annual profit since going public in 2017, but as Snapchat's user base has continually increased it has nearly closed the gap. Like other tech companies it suffered in late 2022 due to a surprise drop in advertising revenue, but has been rebuilding to its former trajectory since then. Given Snapchat's lasting popularity amongst young people, further success appears likely.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2016
$1.8bn
SERIES F
Mar 2015
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $2.6bn
Company benefits
- Paid maternity, paternity and family caregiver leave
- Adoption, surrogacy, infertility and fertility preservation benefits
- Backup child care coverage, caregiver assistance and digital maternity care support
- Short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance and AD&D insurance
- Comprehensive medical coverage, including PPO, HSA and HMO options
- Dental coverage, including orthodontia benefits
- Vision coverage, including LASIK benefits
- Gym perks and discounts
- Team fitness classes, hikes and races
- Sports leagues
- Cooking and nutritional workshops
- Generous time off and leave programmes
- Meditation and yoga classes
- Emotional and mental health support programmes and apps
- Social gatherings, team outings and volunteering programmes
- Speaker series, classes and subscriptions to educational programmes
- Snap Inc. provides a 401(k) plan that allows you to save on a pre-tax, Roth and after-tax basis for your retirement (yes, we even have the Mega Backdoor option!)
- Rocket Lawyer memberships
- Financial education programmes
- Compensation packages that let you share in Snap's long-term success!
- Have a teammate going through a tough time? Lend them a hand through our internal Snap-a-wish programme! We'll work hard to make sure they get the support they need.
Company values
- We Are Kind - We solve problems through action, make high-quality decisions and think with a strategic mindset
- We Are Smart - We solve problems through action, make high-quality decisions and think with a strategic mindset
- We Are Creative - We gracefully manage ambiguity, cultivate innovation and demonstrate an insatiable desire to learn
Company HQ
Sunset Park, Santa Monica, CA
Articles
Leadership
Evan Spiegel
(CEO)Graduated from Standford with a BS in Product Design.
Bobby Murphy
(CTO)Studied Mathematical and Computational Science at Stanford.
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