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Senior Software Engineer

Remote
USD 135k - 150k
TypeScript AWS GraphQL PostgreSQL Microservices Go
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Description
Who We Are 
30,000 products are launched every year, and 90% of them fail. Highlight is the first and only end-to-end agile product testing platform, enabling the efficient collection of scaled product performance data. Brands like Nestle, P&G, and Estee Lauder rely on Highlight for competitive benchmarking, pre-launch formulation testing, in-market product renovation, and more, to optimize product success. Highlight, launched in 2021, has seen runaway growth and scale, having tested hundreds of products at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional analog methods, and becoming the dominant SaaS platform in the product testing space. Highlight is a woman-owned, minority-owned startup on a mission to create better products for people and the planet. We’re a diverse and collaborative team committed to fostering an environment of innovation, impact, and growth.

The Role
We’re hiring a back-end focused senior engineer to join our growing and collaborative Project Logistics team. In particular we are looking for an experienced person in architecture and design for a microservices and cloud environment. This is a unique opportunity to work on a greenfield market research platform that connects brands and consumers.

Your Impact

    • Participate in technical decision making
    • Take ownership of features and functionality that have direct business impact
    • Write code with a test driven approach and take great pride in the quality, resilience and performance of your code
    • Experiment and be scrappy to help the team make informed data-driven decisions
    • Influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive change across the entire customer experience
    • Care about UX and design in addition to writing robust resilient code
    • Think at scale while building software for growth
    • You’ll have the opportunity to work in many technologies, including Go, Typescript, Node, AWS, GraphQL, DataDog, and Postgres DB

About You

    • 3+ years of experience in a software engineering role
    • Experience architecting complex systems and services
    • Enjoy collaborating with product roles (designers, Product Managers)
    • Love the idea of contributing to DevOps, SRE, and Quality practices.
    • Passionate about staying up-to-date on current trends and best practices in web applications, including performance, security, and usability
    • Self-motivated, detail-oriented, analytical, a problem-solver, and can function well in a self-directed, team-oriented environment
    • Experience building web applications that delight customers and the developers working on them
    • Prior experience working in a fast pace startup is a plus
    • Love breaking new ground/working on greenfield projects
    • Enjoy working in a value-focused/iterative environment

Engineering Values

    • We try lots of things and keep those that work
    • We don’t release code we can’t be confident in
    • We give freedom and expect accountability in return
    • We collaborate respectfully to build trust
    • We invest in each other’s growth and success
    • Read more about our Engineering Values here!

Benefits and Additional Details

    • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision) with 100% premium covered
    • Competitive equity grants
    • Unlimited PTO
    • Flexible remote WFH culture with 100% remote capability (And an amazing high-end office space located in Midtown Manhattan!)
    • Generous paid parental leave
    • 401K Program
    • Learning and development stipend
    • Early exercise equity opportunity
    • For US based candidates, the base pay range for a successful candidate is $135,000 - $150,000 plus equity and benefits. However, base pay may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations.


You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. At Highlight, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful. We are committed to building a team that comes from a wide range of backgrounds - including but not limited to - race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, disability, and veteran status. If you’re someone who can think rigorously and isn’t afraid to challenge assumptions, join us.

We've built a world-class team with decades of experience in the space. We’ve encountered the problems we’re trying to solve first hand and care deeply about making better products. We’ve been fortunate to raise a seed round from First Round Capital as well as experienced angels and insiders to help us further our mission. We’re also a passionate, capable, and empathetic team who live by our Humans First value. We have fun, we care about one another, and we’re all in on tacos.
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