Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer, Prepared
$180-200k
+ Company equity
Providing real-time data to emergency services
Be an early applicant
Providing real-time data to emergency services
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-200k
+ Company equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
Prepared's mission is to build software that saves lives, facilitating rapid emergency service response by providing real-time data at emergency locations.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering industry experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Proficiency in or eagerness to learn our backend stack (Ruby on Rails, Golang)
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems
- Desire to work in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Desirable
- Experience at an early-stage startup
- Expertise in Ruby on Rails and/or Golang
What the job involves
- We are looking to hire backend-focused software engineers at a variety of levels who share our passion for our mission
- This is an opportunity to join a small, growing engineering team (currently 20 engineers) and make a large impact while operating with a high degree of autonomy and ownership
- In this role, you will tackle challenging engineering problems in spaces like audio/video processing and generative AI to bring new features and products from inception to scale, thoughtfully balancing speed and the high bar for stability necessitated by the mission-critical nature of our products
- As an early member of the team, you will also play a key role in shaping the foundation of Prepared’s engineering culture
- Collaborate cross-functionally to architect and launch new user-facing features and products
- Design and drive initiatives to improve the availability and reliability of our backend systems
- Continuously help improve the engineering processes and tools that allow us to scale the codebase and team
- Provide mentorship to less experienced engineers
Our take
Every day, half a million Americans call 911 to report an emergency, and whilst emergency services save lives, their speed and effectiveness are limited by technology. Even though most emergency phone calls are made on smartphones, emergency departments rely exclusively on the anecdotal data provided during phone calls.
Prepared provides a real-time data system for emergency services, allowing 911 callers to livestream, text photo/video messages over SMS, provide pinpoint-accurate GPS location in DMS format and integrate into existing PSAP processes easily. In doing so, Prepared empowers 911 operators to deploy the most effective response for both emergency and non-emergency situations.
The company has shown the potential to significantly innovate upon emergency services (which have traditionally lacked funding). Prepared have also avoided the often long cycle of government procurement by offering the service for free, and currently have over 200 cities signed up, across 40+ states (representing around 20 million citizens). It is unclear how the company will monetize in the future, but they have mentioned a possible freemium element to its service down the line.
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Employee endorsements
Meaningful work
"At Prepared, we have the opportunity to save people's loves, bringing innovative, life-saving technology to the hands to our public safety..."
Company benefits
- Work on technology that has and will directly save lives
- Work with a small, exceptionally smart team
- Meaningful equity at an early stage company
- Apple equipment
- Full healthcare coverage
- Unlimited PTO
- Dental
Company values
- We are a force for good
- We view challenges as opportunities
- We embrace radical candor
- We build lifelong community
- We achieve quality with speed
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Michael Chime
(CEO)Mike was chosen as one of 24 world wide to be recognized as a Thiel Fellow. He was awarded a $100,000 scholarship to drop out of Yale University and pursue Prepared.
Dylan Gleicher
(Co-Founder)Dropped out of Yale University studying Computer Science to found Prepared. Dylan loves writing exceptionally high quality code and plays competitive ping pong.
Neal Soni
(Co-Founder)Dropped out of Yale University studying Computer Science to found Prepared. Neal was formally a national champion in Taekwondo and loves rock climbing.
People progressing
Staff Engineer, Engineering Lead, and Engineering #1 @ Prepared. Alex started off as the first engineer in the company and has progressed to become the leader of the engineering team.
Miranda Lee started off as the Chief of Staff at Prepared, tackling anything and everything non technical, working directly with the CEO. She has progressed to VP of Operations and Design.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Prepared
Miranda Lee (Head of Operations)
- Would love to hear from people that want to influence and shape our Diversity and Inclusion practices
- As a small, fast-growing team, we are actively trying to put an emphasis on diversity as our team grows.
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