Software Engineer - Code Understanding [IC2]

TL;DR

Software Engineer - Code Understanding [IC2] (Fullstack): Building and shipping end-to-end features for code intelligence platform including Code Search, Deep Search, and agent-powered tools with an accent on user experience across frontends, APIs, and backends. Focus on designing scalable services in Go, React/SvelteKit UIs, GraphQL, databases, and collaborating with product/design teams to incorporate user feedback.

Location: Remote from almost anywhere worldwide. Must overlap working hours with EST for at least 20 hours/week. Preference for certain locations (not specified).

Salary: Zone 1 $160,000; Zone 2 $128,000; Zone 3 $96,000; Zone 4 $64,000 (base, USD, yearly).

Company

World’s most powerful code intelligence platform relied on by developers at Stripe, Uber, Dropbox to navigate complex codebases; backed by a16z, Sequoia, Redpoint; globally distributed team.

What you will do

• Familiarize with codebase architecture and contribute to end-to-end user experience tasks in current focus areas like Code Search, Code Intel, Deep Search.
• Ship smaller features across full stack (React/SvelteKit, GraphQL, Go backends, SQL/Redis/blob storage) to improve user engagement.
• Collaborate with team, product, design to translate feedback into requirements and influence product direction.
• Anticipate customer needs, own features, and establish expertise in technical/product aspects.
• Work async-first in distributed remote team on customer-facing features.

Requirements

• 2-5 years hands-on fullstack experience; proficient in Go (scaling/concurrency), TypeScript/JavaScript frameworks (React/SvelteKit plus).
• Knowledge of GraphQL; comfortable with Docker, Kubernetes, relational DBs (PostgreSQL plus), CLI/bash scripting.
• Experience with macOS/Linux, multi-service environments, product/design collaboration, user-facing features, async distributed teams, customer requirements/feedback.
• Comfortable working async-first with EST time zone overlap (20h/week).

Culture & Benefits

• High agency, direct communication, developer-focused culture; globally distributed async-first team.
• Above-market transparent compensation with equity; perks include international benefits, learning opportunities.
• Fast-paced environment emphasizing autonomy, ownership, collaboration across teams.

Hiring process

• Recruiter screen (30m), technical screen/resume deep dive (45m).
• Code walkthrough (60m), coding exercise (60m), cross-functional collaboration/values (45m), leadership (30m).
• References and background check; total ~4.5 hours, quick process.