Senior Software Engineer - Core ATS

About Gem

• Forbes America's Best Startup Employers 2026
• Great Place to Work Certified, 2024
• Fortune Best Workplaces for Millennials, 2023

The Team and Role

• Designing the architecture of a system that is elegant today and will scale in the future.
• Making foundational technical decisions that will define how Gem's ATS evolves for years to come.
• Directly collaborating with customers, ensuring that what we build addresses the needs of large-scale modern recruiting teams.

What You’ll Do Day-to-Day

• Own product features end-to-end, from ideation to implementation.
• Build and scale user-facing features with Typescript, React, Python, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL.
• Ensure scalability and reliability by collaborating with other engineers on data model, architecture, and product decisions.
• Stay close to customers, gathering direct feedback to inform design and development decisions.
• Embody our company values of ownership, velocity, customer centricity, diversity and transparency.
• Mentor and guide teammates, sharing your technical expertise and helping elevate the engineering bar.
• Influence company and product direction, making decisions that have immediate visible impact on our customers.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver thoughtful, high-quality solutions.
• Work with a world class team from Meta, Uber, Dropbox, and more

• You have 5+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, building user-facing products.
• You enjoy mentoring, working cross-functionally, and working directly with customers.
• You move with velocity and invest in improving your craft.
• You prioritize technical quality, building reliable and scalable systems.
• You are product-oriented and you don’t hesitate in making decisions.
• You are energized by collaborating in-office with your peers in a hybrid model.

How We Work

• Local dev with Vite boots instantly with hot-reload
• CI runs in ~10 minutes, deploys go straight to production
• We ship fast and iterate based on customer feedback

• Reasonable hours
• Weekly team events and happy hours
• Regular hackathons for experimental features
• Team from Meta, Uber, and Dropbox

Role Details

• Location: This role is based 3 days per week out of our San Francisco, HQ and is not eligible for full-time remote work. 
• Compensation: The annual cash compensation range for this position is $190,000–$260,000 based on level in addition to equity & benefits.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary & equity
• 10-year window to exercise your stock options
• Supportive Flexible Time Off program
• 16 paid holidays, including regular company-wide wellness days
• Best-in-class medical, dental & vision insurance
• $1,200 annual stipend for learning and development opportunities
• 16 weeks of Paid Parental Leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
• New Parent Perks totaling $1,500 and flexibility upon return to work