Research Engineer, Github

• 8+ years experience building and shipping software using a variety of technology stacks, or equivalent experience
• Experience identifying and justifying research goals in situations of ambiguity and executing towards those goals without explicit direction
• Experience creating rapid prototypes that demonstrate a concept to stakeholders and enable decision making
• You are a generalist with some areas of deeper knowledge. Hybrids will feel at home on this team. We will also consider candidates who have specialized in a relevant field
• You are an effective and inclusive communicator, comfortable with remote communication practices. Next’s currency is ideas; the health of our team, our execution, and our results rests on our ability to communicate well
• You are comfortable collaborating with teammates to figure out what work needs doing, then splitting up that work and doing it. Ideating alone is natural and common, but projects staffed by one individual are not. Your teammates are the first ones you must persuade with your ideas
• You are comfortable reading source code. You are comfortable picking up new technology stacks in the normal course of work. This is a senior engineering role!
• While we do have some technologies that we generally like to use, we are not indexing on a specific stack. Experience is more than your ability to write code in language X or framework Y

Desirable

• Research Engineers conduct investigations and build prototypes
• Sometimes, we have an interesting technological idea but need to figure out how to turn it into a reliable product
• Other times, we dream of an experience, but we’re not sure how to make that experience a reality
• With few constraints on our solution space, our hardest task is figuring out how to scope our bets and deliver value
• We will have more ideas than we can possibly pursue; choosing wisely is part of the job
• The exploration domains are varied and will require an ability to understand, investigate, and implement prototypes across a wide range of technologies
• Our team has a lot of different skills under one roof, and we work together in squads to identify and debate ideas, then execute everything needed for a working prototype