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Staff Software Engineer at Laurel

Staff Software Engineer

Laurel · California

2 days ago

Staff Software Engineer

Laurel · California

3 days ago
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About the Role

We are looking for a highly experienced Software Engineer to join our team. You'll have a direct impact on engineering practices throughout the stack (front/back) and are expected to raise the bar for the engineers around you. As a Software Engineer, you will work on a charter to solve high-level business challenges with a collaborative, cross-functional team. Your curiosity will serve you well in asking the right questions to understand the customer problems we're solving. Your ability to learn quickly, write, and design quality software will serve you well in delivering value to our customers incrementally. Ownership comes from the ground up, we empower our teams to understand and make an impact on the business. AI will fundamentally change the nature of work and how we think about work. As a Software Engineer at Laurel, you’ll have the capacity to understand and impact the experiences of our customers, standing at the forefront of the mission to return time to our customers. Laurel is at a pivot point. We've built a product that people like, and have a direction that people love, but it hasn't been done yet.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and extremely reliable code across both frontend and backend components of our applications
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to gather requirements, define technical specifications and measures of success, and deliver high-quality software solutions
  • Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to mitigate and address these issues
  • Continuously improve the performance, scalability, and security of our applications
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers, fostering a culture of learning and growth within the team
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, and proactively suggest improvements and new features to enhance our products
  • Implement automated testing and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure robust and reliable software releases
  • Work with Product and Customer Success teams to flesh out business requirements and designs for those requirements and systems
  • Engage with our product and our users, providing valuable input and opinions on how things should be done and why

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 8+ years of professional experience in software development, with a focus on full-stack development
  • Significant experience with modern web technologies is preferred
  • Use of AI in your day to day work
  • Deep knowledge and understanding, as well as strongly-held opinions about frontend and backend technologies
  • Take ownership over our product and the parts of it that you’re responsible for
  • Proven history of early action and initiative, rather than waiting for direction
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think critically and creatively
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
  • A customer mindset with proven ability to engage with customers and understand their needs
  • Experience in AI, is strongly preferred

Skills

  • React
  • Typescript
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • NextJS
  • TailwindCSS
  • Node.js
  • AWS SQS
  • MongoDB
  • NestJS
  • Python
  • Django
  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Airflow
  • PostgreSQL

Location

  • Remote

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • 8+ years of professional experience in software development
  • Highly experienced

Education Level

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

  • Equity
  • 401K
  • Bi-annual, in-person company off-sites, in unique locations

About the Company

  • Laurel is on a mission to return time. As the leading AI Time platform for professional services firms, we’re transforming how organizations capture, analyze, and optimize their most valuable resource: time. Our proprietary machine learning technology automates work time capture and connects time data to business outcomes, enabling firms to increase profitability, improve client delivery, and make data-driven strategic decisions. We serve many of the world's largest accounting and law firms, including EY, Aprio, Crowell & Moring, and Frost Brown Todd, and process over 1 billion work activities annually that have never been collected and aggregated before Laurel’s AI Time platform.
  • Our team comprises top talent in AI, product development, and engineering—innovative, humble, and forward-thinking professionals committed to redefining productivity in the knowledge economy. We're building solutions that empower workers to deliver twice the value in half the time, giving people more time to be creative and impactful.
  • To date, we've secured significant funding from renowned venture capitalists (Google Ventures, IVP, Anthos, Upfront Ventures), as well as notable individuals like Marc Benioff, Gokul Rajaram, Kevin Weil, and Alexis Ohanian
  • A smart, fun, collaborative, and inclusive team
  • An opportunity to perform at your best while growing, making a meaningful impact on the company's trajectory, and embodying our core values: understanding your "why," dancing in the rain, being your whole self, and sanctifying time

Equal Opportunity

  • Laurel is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
  • We encourage diverse perspectives and rigorous thinkers who aren't afraid to challenge the status quo.
  • We strive to create an inclusive culture that encourages people from all walks of life to bring their unique, diverse perspectives to work.
  • Every day, we aim to build an environment that empowers us all to do the best work of our careers