Staff Software Engineer, Lattice
$195-252k
+ Stock options
Employee success platform
Job no longer available
Employee success platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$195-252k
+ Stock options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build cultures where employees and their companies thrive.
Role
Who you are
- You have 7+ years of professional experience writing and maintaining production-level applications
- You’ve worked with a modern programming language like JavaScript, Ruby, Python, etc
- You’ve got good database and data modeling experience. You know how to efficiently model moderately complicated data, write and optimize performant queries in a relational database like PostgreSQL, and are comfortable mentoring junior engineers on best practices around this
- You know the ins-and-outs of maintaining and scaling an application actively serving customers in production
- You seek out the root cause when debugging software defects and champion improvements that prevent future issues
- You’re a great communicator and collaborator
- You write code that your colleagues will also own, understand, and maintain
- You’re clear and concise in explaining your thought process and in enumerating the tradeoffs made in your work
- You work well with designers and product managers to develop optimal solutions
- You enjoy taking an active role in the development process
- You love mentoring and supporting other software engineers who are newer to the industry
- You have experience taking the lead in planning and executing the development roadmap for software projects
- You make the engineering team more effective through the pragmatic application of useful code tools and patterns
What the job involves
- You’ll develop software to help companies build cultures in which their employees thrive
- You’ll partner with other engineers to build and own products across a modern tech stack. Our current stack includes React, Relay Modern, GraphQL, Node, and PostgreSQL. We rely on AWS to host our infrastructure
- You will lead the planning and executing of complex projects with a high degree of ambiguity
- You’ll provide technical standards, conduct code reviews and provide technical mentorship of other engineers
- Influence and drive alignment in large-scale projects, directly impacting business outcomes
Our take
Modern HR departments face many challenges, such as maintaining employee engagement, often across a distributed workforce. Lattice’s people success platform solves this problem.
Lattice enables companies to launch effective performance review cycles, implement OKRs and facilitate manager meetings, all of which are proven to drive engagement and productivity. Lattice’s solutions are now trusted by over 5,000 business leaders, including executives at Reddit, Slack and Cruise. And the company is now valued at over $3B, which is testament to industry confidence in its product.
Recently, the company has launched a London office, which will accelerate its international expansion, aided by some serious funding. Scaling in this way will be an instrumental part of their future success, allowing the company to compete with rival HR software providers, and become central to carving out the new world of work.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
109% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2022
$175m
SERIES F
Mar 2021
$60m
SERIES E
Total funding: $329.4m
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sarah Franklin
(CEO)Prior to joining Lattice in 2024, Sarah spent 16 years at Salesforce, while there she held various roles, including President & CMO. She also worked at Amazon Web Services as the Head of Database Product Marketing.
Gabe Cortes
(CFO)Prior to joining lattice in 2023, Gabe served as the CFO of Included Health for 6 years. He also spent 3 years at Workday as VP of Finance and Senior VP of Global Field Operations.
Cheryl Sanclemente
(CMCO)Cheryl joined Lattice in 2024 as a Chief Communications Officer, moving into the role of Chief Marketing and Communications Officer in 2025. Previously, she spent 8 years at Salesforce, holding various roles while there, including Senior Director of Corproate PR and VP of Public Relations.
Amy Christensen
(CRO)Prior to joining Lattice in 2025, Amy was GM of americas/Head of Revenue at Asana. She also spent nearly 10 years at LinkedIn, holding various roles including Senior Director of LinkedIn Talent Solutions.
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