Senior Full-stack Engineer, Swayable
Web
$130-190k
Consumer opinion testing
Open for applications
Consumer opinion testing
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$130-190k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To accelerate social and economic progress by making scientific insights instantly accessible to decision-makers.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience building web applications using semantic HTML and modern CSS frameworks
- Skilled at writing modern JavaScript (ES2020+) web applications using a component-based framework such as Vue or React
- You thrive in an environment where you collaborate with product and design to craft accessible, intuitive, and delightful user experiences
- Work closely with peers to develop and test code across the web stack
- Excited to learn and work with data visualization frameworks like Highcharts, Chart.js, or D3.js to help communicate complex ideas visually
- You enjoy facilitating architectural discussions and helping the team align on thoughtful, inclusive technical decisions
- You value using data to guide decisions, ensuring diverse sources and perspectives are included and considered
- Curious and open to exploring new technologies like generative AI, with a mindset focused on continuous learning and adaptation
- Appreciate the value of giving and receiving feedback which is constructive and well-informed, and are committed to fostering an environment where everyone can grow and contribute meaningfully
- You believe that empathy and trust are at the heart of a great team, and a great team is at the heart of building great software
- You are a collaborative communicator, skilled at breaking down complex ideas into accessible concepts, writing thoughtful documentation, and helping stakeholders understand tradeoffs in decision-making
- Familiar with effective development environments which include command line tools, git, advanced IDEs, and AI-assistance
- Prioritize writing clear and maintainable code, creating intuitive systems with clear separation of concerns, utilizing Gang of Four design patterns and Twelve-Factor Application development practices
- Bachelor's degree (or higher), extensive professional training, or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
Desirable
- Experience building products with rich user-facing analytics and insights
- Vue.js and MongoDB
- Background in scientific research or methodologies
- Successful technical mentoring
What the job involves
- Swayable is looking for a full-stack web Senior Software Engineer to build, maintain, and enhance our data collection and insights tools.
- In this role, you will contribute to developing AI-native experiences, creating data-rich visualizations, and leveraging our cutting-edge machine learning analytics engine
- You will play a key role in shaping architecture and advancing development practices while collaborating with a talented, diverse team of engineers, data scientists, and researchers.
- Together, you’ll design and implement new features and tackle innovative challenges at the intersection of software engineering, data visualization, and data science
Our take
Campaigning, whether for a brand, a charitable cause, or a political office, is getting harder by the year. Siloed demographics, patchy data, and bad market research means many messages aren’t getting through - something that Swayable is looking to change.
The company essentially runs randomized A/B testing on campaign videos to see which is the most persuasive for their clients. Swayable pulls demographic audiences from sites like Facebook, Amazon Mechanical Turk, and Fiverr, and returns analysed performance results to its customers within 12-24 hours.
This kind of rapid-turnaround market insight is crucial for organizatinos looking to fine-tune their messaging. It won the company itself good business, too - Swayable began with Y-Combinator, and has gone on to score a remarkable slate of clients including the Biden Harris campaign, Amazon, Airbnb, and Paramount.
Swayable’s express commitment to truth-telling and fighting misinformation is a smart play in today’s climate. With an impressive team of physicists and founders at the helm, Swayable is in a strong position to continue winning big business.
Kirsty
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Company
Company benefits
- Commission structure
- Equity options
- Full healthcare coverage with no employee contribution required
- Generous PTO and parental leave
- 401K
- Opportunity to support some of the most important storytelling and social change campaigns in the world
Company values
- Experiment - Our work is an experiment, from the company itself down to each feature and client discussion. Every belief is a hypothesis we are validating. We measure clear metrics to determine success
- Empathy - Everything we do starts with empathy: for customers, respondents, and each other. We work hard to actively understand real problems
- Fail fast - Most experiments don't succeed. We need to do lots of them efficiently, to find the winners. Which means we aim to fail fast, and not punish failure
- Zero-drama professionalism - Success means contributing to a strong culture of problem-solving and owning the outcome that supports everyone doing their best work at all times
- Debate and commit - We are not conflict-averse over ideas. We always play the ball, not the person. Once we take a decision, all of us commit 100% to supporting it
- Agile design thinking - We nurture the early ideas of others and are intentional about when we do divergent thinking (building new ideas) versus convergent thinking (narrowing and selecting options). We use agile practices to adapt to new information
- Caring meritocracy - We challenge and support everyone to become their absolute best, so we have star performers in every role and people have strong career trajectories
- Feedback culture - We strive to create a strong culture of constructive supportive feedback in all our work so that we are continually improving
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
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Leadership
James Slezak
(CEO)Has founding experience with Win Back Respect, Purpose, Peers.org, and New Economy Lab. Along the way has also worked as a McKinsey project lead, and spent time in various director roles at The New York Times.
Valerie Coffman
(CTO)Previously an NIST physicist, before moving on to found Feastie, and then taking up a CTO/Chief Science Officer role at Xometry.
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