engineering
Posted YesterdaySenior Software Engineer
at Instawork
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Product Delivery – Collaborate with PMs and designers to translate customer needs into technical solutions and shape product requirements.
- Write Quality Code – Ship code that follows engineering best practices (DRY, maintainable) and is production-safe after code review.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally – Work closely with Product, Design, and Data partners to ensure project alignment from concept through deployment.
- Drive Personal Growth – Proactively seek opportunities to sharpen skills through code reviews and architectural deep-dives with senior engineers.
- Own Features End-to-End – Drive feature development from coding through deployment, monitoring, QA, and iteration based on user feedback.
- Advocate for Best Practices – Champion engineering excellence and contribute to continuous improvement in developer tooling and experience.
- Practice Clear Communication – Communicate effectively through clear PR descriptions and proactively surfacing blockers before they become critical problems.
Requirements
- Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI.
- requirements into clear, scalable technical solutions, leveraging modern methodologies—including AI where it aligns with product scope—to deliver high-quality products and efficient software workflows.
- experience with a focus on high-growth product environments
- Strong coding and architectural proficiency—you prioritize moving quickly down the right path to ship reliable code daily
- Full-stack proficiency—comfortable across backend services, APIs, and modern frontends (React, Angular, or Vue.js)
- AI-First mindset—expertly using AI coding tools to accelerate delivery without compromising architectural integrity
- Fluency in our core stack (Django, Python, React, and React Native)—accelerates time-to-impact and onboarding •
- Experience with advanced deployment patterns—leveraging feature flags, config-driven behavior, and progressive rollouts
- Exposure to LLM-based systems—includes prompt engineering, tool-call architectures, or agent workflows Domain
- experience in two-sided marketplace or recruitment platforms What You'll Do: