Staff Software Engineer, Instabase
Product Engineering
$237.5-255k
Plus bonus, and equity
2+ days a week in office
Automation platform for unstructured data
Be an early applicant
Automation platform for unstructured data
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$237.5-255k
Plus bonus, and equity
2+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build tools that will help people and organizations solve important problems, make discoveries, and create new breakthroughs.
Role
Who you are
- Education: BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, or equivalent experience in a technical field (e.g., Physics or Mathematics), with a deep focus on complex systems
- Experience: 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of designing, building, and scaling mission-critical systems and platforms
- Backend Expertise: Expert proficiency in Go and Python, with a deep, pragmatic understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and building highly-scalable APIs
- Frontend Expertise: Strong experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript) for architecting and optimizing complex, data-rich web applications with a focus on engineering efficiency
- Infrastructure & Orchestration: Expert-level knowledge of distributed orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and significant experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure). Deep expertise in relational databases, specifically operational excellence with PostgresDB
- Product Thinking & System Design: You possess an aptitude for defining product requirements and user experience (UX) and are comfortable writing high-level design documents that define the technical future of Instabase
- Communication: Exceptional communication and presentation skills to represent and defend complex technical and product decisions to executive leadership and the wider engineering organization
- Research shows that in order to apply for a job, women feel they need to meet 100% of the criteria while men usually apply after meeting about 60%. Regardless of how you identify, if you believe you can do the job and are a good match, we encourage you to apply
Desirable
- Experience defining, building, and maintaining multi-platform applications, including React Native or other mobile technologies
- Experience operating within a high-growth, fast-paced startup environment, taking on multi-functional responsibilities
What the job involves
- We are seeking a visionary Staff Software Engineer to join our Product Engineering team. In this high-leverage role, you will be instrumental in defining, architecting, and evolving the core systems and platforms that underpin the entire Instabase product
- You will be responsible for tackling the most ambiguous, complex technical challenges on our multi-quarter roadmap
- This is a critical role for an exceptional "Product-minded Engineer." You will drive end-to-end technical strategy, from writing high-level design documents and translating Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) into architectural plans, to overseeing the development of highly-available frontend experiences, scalable services, and resilient infrastructure
- Architectural Leadership: Lead the design and implementation of large-scale, distributed systems and infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud-native technologies). You will be the domain expert for core services built in Go and Python, ensuring optimal performance, security, and stability
- Engineering Force Multiplier: Define and drive the technical strategy for internal platforms and systems that maximize the velocity, reliability, and observability of all engineering teams across the organization
- Technical Strategy & Mentorship: Act as a technical leader, driving cross-functional alignment on complex projects. You will mentor senior engineers, establish best practices, and be the ultimate owner for identifying and resolving root causes for critical, systemic issues
Our take
Instabase is a platform for businesses to build customisable apps for automating different parts of their business. For example, a bank could build an app to automatically verify customer income in a fraction of a second by combing through documents such as camera pictures or scans of payslips, tax documents, bank statements, and other similar documents submitted by the customer.
The platform comes equipped with the tools for reading documents, data extraction and classification, natural language processing, and optical character recognition. It's designed to enable creators, developers, and organizations to quickly build complex business applications based on their needs.
Instabase also offers an app store, which represents a growing marketplace of pre-packaged business apps for different industries. These include apps for things such as Income Verification, Adverse Media Analysis, Identity Verification, Trade Finance, Contract Analysis, and Financial Spreading.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2025
$100m
SERIES D
Jun 2023
$45m
SERIES C
Total funding: $277.1m
Company benefits
- We marry the benefits of moving fast at a scaling startup with the stability of larger corporations. Instabase pays 100% of top tier employee medical, dental, vision plans and takes care of dependents. Instabase also offers an FSA company match
- Instabase believes in investing in you and your future by providing a company 401(k) match and financial planning resources
- Every Instabaser is eligible for paid time off to care for their newborn or adopted child. We’ve also teamed up with Carrot Fertility to help support every Instabaser on their family forming journey
- At Instabase, we believe in providing employees the ability to rest, reflect, and recharge through unlimited paid time off and holidays
- Instabase believes in providing access to resources that allow you to grow in your role and career
- From home office setups to meal and Wi-Fi reimbursements, Instabase provides perks and resources that help you do your best work
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Anant Bhardwaj
(CEO & Founder)Previously worked in research for 3 years at MIT and also interned at Google.
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