Senior Software Engineer, Collective
$195-230k
Plus an equity package
Back-office platform for self-employed people
Be an early applicant
Back-office platform for self-employed people
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$195-230k
Plus an equity package
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower Businesses-of-One to succeed for the life of their business and beyond.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience building and shipping production software in a product-focused environment
- Strong fullstack engineering skills (e.g., Python, Django, React, or similar modern frameworks)
- Track record of owning features or systems end-to-end and delivering measurable user impact
- Experience using AI developer tools (copilots, code agents, custom workflows) to ship faster — not just experiment with them
- Ability to take a loosely defined member problem and drive it to a shipped solution without waiting for a fully specced PRD
- Product instinct that lets you make good scope and UX tradeoffs without a designer in every conversation
- Clear communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical partners
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI agents and automation into development workflows and product features
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build and evolve the core product experiences that power Collective’s member platform. This is a product engineering role with high ownership across the stack, working closely with Product, Design, and Operations to ship fast and iterate based on real customer needs.
- You’ll be expected to use modern AI tools and agent-based workflows to accelerate development, improve code quality, and unlock new product capabilities. This role is ideal for engineers who think in terms of outcomes, not tickets, and who see AI as a core part of how software gets built today
- Own features end-to-end — define the problem, build the solution, deploy it, and iterate until it works
- Ship high-quality, user-facing product experiences across frontend and backend systems
- Partner with Product and Design to break down ambiguous problems into simple, effective solutions — then build them
- Leverage AI-powered development tools (code generation, copilots, agent workflows) to move faster and cut manual overhead
- Identify and implement AI capabilities in the product where they meaningfully improve the member experience
- Ship continuously, instrument what you build, and use customer behavior and feedback to drive the next iteration
- Make system design decisions that balance speed, scalability, and maintainability — and own the tradeoffs
- Build and improve developer workflows through automation, internal tooling, and AI-assisted processes
- A habit of evaluating new tools, frameworks, and approaches — and a willingness to recommend what works and kill what doesn't
Our take
Collective is tapping into the quickly growing freelance and self employed workforce with a back office platform which provides full support for accounting, tax, bookkeeping and other financial admin, essentially removing the burden from the business owner entirely.
Launched in 2020, Collective didn’t take long to receive major backing from General Catalyst as well as Ashton Kutcher’s VC fund Sound Ventures. It’s put it to great use too, with an employee headcount now in the hundreds, showing just how fast the startup is growing.
Interestingly, Collective isn’t available for any and all subscribers. Rather, it only allows applicants to become members if Collective’s advisors know they can offer real value. It may seem a counter-intuitive move, but it keeps the company’s success rate high.
The company's latest funding round, raised in 2023, supports the accelerated implementation of AI across its operations as well as expanded onboarding efforts. Collective also continues to broaden the value of its offering, for example wit the launch of an AI accounting platform for one-person operations.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$50m
EARLY VC
May 2021
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $78.7m
Company benefits
- Flex work setup
- Flexible PTO
- 14 paid holidays
- Paid parental leave (16 weeks)
- Health, dental, and vision
- Additional medical coverage
- 401k plan
- Equity
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Hooman Radfar
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously co-founded and was CEO of AddThis (acquired by Oracle), and was a founding partner at early stage startup accelerator Expa.
Ugur Kaner
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Was CPO before taking on an Advisor role. Joined YC startup in 2015 MBX as VP of Product Design, building multi-brand beauty and personal care startup Memebox. Helped to build the now public Udemy, and has worked with Google, Angry Birds, and Nokia.
Bugra Akcay
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Co-founded and was CTO of Hike, an accounting and tax platform for freelancers which preluded Collective. Was also the co-founder and CTO of Cici Meze, an enterprise food informatics company.
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