Staff Software Engineer, Lattice
Talent
$187.5-211k
+ Stock Options
Employee success platform
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Employee success platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$187.5-211k
+ Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Lattice's mission is to build cultures where employees and their companies thrive.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of professional experience writing and maintaining production-level applications
- Experience working with a modern programming language like JavaScript, Ruby, Python, etc
- Strong database and data modeling skills, with the ability to design efficient schemas, optimize queries, and mentor others on best practices
- A deep understanding of building and scaling applications actively serving customers in production
- Clear, concise communication when explaining technical tradeoffs and architectural decisions
- A collaborative approach to working with designers and product managers to develop optimal solutions
- Passion for mentoring and supporting other software engineers in their growth
- Proven experience leading planning and execution for larger, multi-product or multi-team projects
- Strong product intuition and systems thinking, with the ability to design solutions that work cohesively across a suite of interconnected products
- A track record of making engineering teams more effective through pragmatic tools, patterns, and technical leadership
What the job involves
- Lattice’s Engineering team is continuously working to better both our product and our craft
- We use a modern, cutting-edge tech stack and love experimenting with new technologies
- We strive for maintainable, robust, and performant code
- We’re highly collaborative and continuously iterative and work closely with designers and product managers
- We prioritize not only great technical architecture but also an amazing product experience
- The Talent area encompasses Lattice’s core people and performance management products
- This includes Performance Reviews, Feedback, Goals, 1:1s, Career Development, and related capabilities
- Together, these products form the foundation of how companies support, grow, and retain their people
- As a Staff Engineer in this area, you’ll be working across a suite of interconnected products that are central to Lattice’s mission of helping companies build high-performing, engaged teams
- The Talent area presents unique challenges and opportunities: building flexible yet opinionated systems that serve both managers and employees, designing experiences that scale from startups to enterprises, and ensuring consistency and integration across the broader Lattice product suite
- This role requires strong product intuition, systems thinking, and the ability to balance immediate customer needs with long-term platform evolution
- 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 execution of complex, multi-team 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 product initiatives, directly shaping the Talent product suite and 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 4,000 business leaders, including executives at Reddit, Slack and Cruise. The company is now valued at over $3 billion, which is testament to industry confidence in its product.
Lattice has launched a London office, which will accelerate its international expansion, aided by 2022's series F funding. Scaling in this way will be an instrumental part of their future success, allowing it to compete with the 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 benefits
- Continuous learning reimbursements
- Equity
- Flexible vacation/time-off policy
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Eric Koslow
(Board Member)Recently co-founded and acted as CEO for VStream. Previously worked as Director of Technology at FoundersCard, and Software Company at 8th Light. Was Lead Developer at Teespring.
Jack Altman
(Chairman)Started out as an Analyst at Gleacher & Company, and was VP of Business Development at Teespring.
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