Senior Software Engineer, Desmos
Tools
$155-170k
+ Stock
We build math tools to help everyone learn math.
Open for applications
We build math tools to help everyone learn math.
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$155-170k
+ Stock
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help everyone learn math, love math, and grow with math.
Role
Who you are
- What you should show up ready to teach anyone on your first day:
- How a healthy engineering culture helps build production-quality software
- Lessons you’ve learned from your experiences in prior roles and other math tools that you’ve used
- Design decisions in a project you led, including alternatives and trade-offs you made
- Comfort with jumping into multiple areas of a codebase, such as Typescript, Postgres, and HTML/CSS
- Your favorite mathematical topic
What the job involves
- Our tools engineering team is focused on developing best-in-class math tools across 2D and 3D graphing, geometry, and more
- We build products that are simultaneously intuitive enough to be used in middle school classrooms and powerful enough to be used by professionals in fields ranging from game design to pharmaceuticals
- This year we plan to expand our suite of tools to include even more ways to share mathematical thinking in rich formats
- Our engineering team builds elegant and flexible systems that can quickly respond to design and pedagogy demands
- We are often tasked with coming up with creative solutions to get an interaction feeling just right
- We empower our users to create delightful and meaningful math experiences
- What you’ll learn more about after you’re hired:
- Our commitment to accessibility and how to keep accessibility in mind during the development process
- Our approach to building software that works every time - scoping, design, architecture, code review, testing, automation, monitoring, etc
- Our 1-year goals, long-term aspirations, and how being a Public Benefit Corporation manifests in our work as a profitable business
- Our communities of users, including on Discord and Reddit, and how we learn from and with them
- Within your first week, you’ll:
- Introduce yourself on Slack to your new co-workers!
- Learn about our process for writing, testing, and deploying code
- Ship your first piece of code to production!
- Within your first month, you’ll:
- Familiarize yourself with Typescript and our in-house, front-end framework
- Complete your first user-facing feature in collaboration with other teams (product, design, business)
- Start reviewing code from other engineers on the team, bringing your keen eye for pragmatic and elegant solutions to challenging problems
- Within your first three months, you’ll:
- Be the technical lead on your first project, guiding it from design to implementation
- Participate in experimentation and review data to help inform product features
- Get to know our users and better understand the role that Desmos plays inside and outside of the classroom
- Within your first year, you’ll:
- Help the team enter a promising new market outside of K-12 education
- Become the company’s expert on one or more areas of the code base
- Help hire and onboard new members of the engineering team
- Take a vacation to recharge. We do our best work when we’re happy and well-rested
Application process
- Submit an application which includes your resume and thoughts on why you’d like to work at Desmos Studio
- Appplied
- Phone Call with Hiring Manager
- Project Interview
- Final Interview
- References
- Offer
- Hired
Our take
For many, the joy and potential of mathematics remains elusive due to inadequate resources, support and encouragement. Recognizing this, Desmos Studio has set out to democratize math education for learners worldwide, regardless of background or circumstance.
Desmos tackles this challenge by not only providing a suite of math tools but also prioritizing equity and accessibility in every aspect of its work. By partnering with leading curricula, learning software, and educational assessment platforms, Desmos ensures its resources reach a wide range of learners across different educational systems.
With over 75M annual users and partnerships with major educational institutions and assessment providers, Desmos is poised to further revolutionize how math is taught and learned globally.
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Company benefits
- Full medical, vision, and dental insurance. 401(k) match. Minimum of 35 days off (including 25 team holidays).
- Full transparency and participation in company goals and direction
- We value results over hours and sustainable, long-term success over short-term wins
Leadership
Eli Luberoff
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