Position: Interface Engineer - USA Startup, STOCK (svelte, typescript)
Company: Art2Hire
Experience required: 5y
Category: JavaScript
English level: upper
Published: 2022-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

**About 5 stages interview + Reference Checks**
focus more on performance and algorithms. 

Experience in open source products or with Data and Analytics or Machine Learning and AI is highly desirable.

Stack: svelte, typescript, html, css

Ownership of product and feature direction, combined with building a product that we ourselves will use every day.
We also provide stock option compensation. We seek candidates who are motivated to own company stock. We do not hire mercenaries or those seeking temporary freelance work.

Location: San Francisco, CA
Type: Remote, full-time

**About company:**

The company is building an intelligent code discovery platform that provides the best tools for developers to discover code in any form—and benefit through contextual insights, recognition, and greater productivity. They are transforming code search to improve modern programming practice—using a graph-based approach drawing on data from the entire open-source ecosystem and having a mission to build the world’s best code discovery engine. The company was founded by top investors in Silicon Valley, including the first investors of Google, Twitter, Zoom, Linked In, and Uber. Our team has backgrounds from NASA, LinkedIn, Facebook, Amazon, AWS, Cisco and MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, they are building a globally distributed, all-remote world-class team.

**About role:**

Now the company is looking for an Interface Engineer to lead technology development on the frontier of code discovery and developer productivity. A successful applicant is an expert in web application development—a wizard in the browser with deep knowledge of the presentation layer. You will lead the development and deployment of multiple products and services using our core technology. You will write APIs, browser extensions, IDE integrations, bots and webhooks across services. You will build interfaces that visualize rich data insights that improve developer productivity.

The ideal candidate is excited to build developer tools. You could be a full-stack engineer and touch every aspect of the system. However, you prefer to engineer the interface. You are a world-class expert building and deploying interfaces and products that developers love to use

**Technical Stack:**

- On backend, data fetching pipelines, tooling is built with Go.
- On  frontend is built using TypeScript & Svelte.
- ML stack is built using Python & PyTorch.
- The cloud automation is built using Terraform.
- The data is primarily stored in PostgreSQL.
- Search engine is powered by OpenSearch.
- Services run on Google’s Cloud Platform.

**Responsibilities:**

- Develop and deploy breakthrough user experiences within web and native environments
- Design and build unique user interactions to be consistent across web, IDE, and CLI environments
- Design and deliver APIs that are a joy to use as a developer
- Code anywhere in our stack, taking ownership and responsibility for the presentation layer
- Relentlessly measure and improve application performance, responsiveness, and testing
- Obsess over implementation details related to appearance and behavior of every user interaction
- Push the boundaries of what is possible to extend and integrate into existing developer workflows
- Review code, mentor other engineers and support the team
- Attract, recruit and retain top talent

**Requirements:**
- Expertise in JavaScript (React, Node.js), TypeScript, Svelte & GraphQL
- Expertise deploying solutions in an Agile/DevOps CI/CD environment
- Expertise with browser technologies and developer tools
- Experience developing across clients, including web, IDE, browser extensions, CLI
- Expertise in unit, integration and end-to-end testing
- English - Upper Intermediate

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s or Master's degree in computer science or related technical field
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Expertise or proficiency in Django and Python 
- Expertise in Go or willingness to learn fast
- Knowledge of image authoring tools
- Experience in platform development to solve complex business problems at scale
- Knowledge of event based systems development
- Knowledge of relational databases and SQL

**The Company Offer:**

- You have the opportunity to join an early-stage startup and have significant ownership of technology development. You will work at the highest level and collaborate with world-class colleagues, advisors and technical experts. The team is growing rapidly, and we hope you'll grow with us, too.
- Competitive salary & equity packages
- Unlimited vacation and sick leave
- Strong remote work culture and esprit de corps