Software Engineer | Fullstack

Department: Engineering

Location: San Francisco

Employment Type: FullTime

About Formal

Formal is data security platform designed to help teams understand and control their data on autopilot.

We're building a modern protocol-aware reverse-proxy for datastores and APIs that helps organizations understand their data in real-time. This allows teams to see how sensitive data is stored, consumed, and used in order to enforce least privilege through masking, filtering, or anonymization policies.

We are trusted by leading companies such as Ramp, Gusto, Notion to solve problems across data security and compliance, data quality management, and infrastructure access.

Formal is backed by top-tiers VCs including Thrive Capital and Y Combinator with angel investors that include executives and founders from Datadog, Clickhouse, Plaid, and Vanta.

About the Role

Formal is on a mission to build the best engineering team and we're looking for people who want to make outsized impact on shaping the product and building the company.

Our ideal candidate has a deep understanding of building scalable systems, a strong sense of ownership, and enjoys owning projects from inception to scaling it in production.

Our tech stack currently involves Typescript, NextJS, Shadcn, Vercel, and Golang

What you'll do

• Continuously improve the performance and reliability of our frontend application by optimizing code and identifying areas for enhancement.

• Enhance existing features by incorporating user feedback and implementing improvements to usability and design.

• Take ownership of the frontend architecture, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and adherence to best practices.

• Lead any initiative you think may have a strong impact on Formal.

What You Need

• Relevant software development experience building data-intensive software platforms

• Strong expertise in a modern framework (e.g. React, Vue.js) and proficiency with some backend language (we use Go)

• Experience with streaming data processing frameworks such as Apache Kafka and Google Pub/Sub

• Some experience with underlying infrastructure primitives like Kubernetes and Terraform

• Experience in building scalable, responsive, and cross-browser compatible web applications

• Solid understanding of frontend development principles, including testing, performance optimization, code modularity, and accessibility

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to tackle complex technical challenges with innovative solutions

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams

Nice-to-Haves

• Early engineer at a hyper-growth startup.

• Extensive experience designing applications on Figma

• Experience contributing to a design framework

• Experience with UI/UX and product design

Compensation

• This role offers cash compensation and stock options.

• The positioning of offers within a certain range depends on various factors, including: candidate experience, qualifications, skills, business requirements, and geographical location.

Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you

  • Partially covered for your dependents

• Flexible PTO