Senior Software Engineer

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We’re not hiring just another software engineer. We’re hiring a senior product‑minded software engineer who can lead technical direction, architect scalable systems from 0 → 1, and mentor other engineers while staying close to users and product impact.

Great engineers build elegant infrastructure. Great product engineers go further.

To win in the marketplace, great startups need more than good ideas. They need technically sound, delightfully usable products that evolve fast. That’s where you come in.

• Frontend:
  React + Type Script
• Databases:
  Postgre
  
  SQL and MongoDB
• Dev Ops: AWS, GCP, Git Hub Actions
• AI:
  OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini APIs

• Ship code daily - startup ventures win by being the fastest to new, useful features and fixes
• Lead technical architecture for MVPs and early production systems
• Mentor other engineers, raising the bar on code quality, testing, and delivery
• Help shape the product, not just implement someone else’s roadmap
• Build full‑stack web and mobile apps with real‑time feedback loops
• Wire up AI frameworks (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) into intuitive user products
• Own the product experience from early sketch to first traction
• Kill bad ideas fast and scale good ones quickly

• 5+ years of professional full‑stack software engineering experience
• Previous startup experience or a strong desire to work in early‑stage environments
• Proven experience in building software from the ground up
• Ability to ship real products fast and iterate based on user feedback
• Deep product intuition and curiosity about what should be built
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising team standards
• Ability to balance near‑term practicality with long‑term technical considerations
• Experience working with modern LLMs, vector databases, and autonomous agents
• Staying on top of emerging technologies to know what’s possible while being prudent when to apply them
• Asking great questions, surfacing concerns, and generating new actionable ideas
• Humbleness that fuels curiosity and the ability to debate and disagree while remaining open and flexible in pursuit of the better idea and outcome

• Experience scaling MVPs into production systems with real traction
• Product vision that balances UX, reliability, and performance
• Willingness to challenge assumptions and the ability to convince the team to overturn some of them (and at least experiment)

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• 8 weeks per year of PTO
• Excellent health, vision, and dental insurance, with 99% of the employee premiums paid by us
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Cell phone reimbursement of $100 per month
• Monthly parking stipend of $50 per month to cover parking garage expenses
• Weekly team lunches
• Dog‑friendly work environment
• Casual work attire
• High‑trust, high‑autonomy culture with the opportunity to work on multiple high‑impact ventures per year
• Studio model that supports both deep product focus and portfolio diversification

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We read every response first and carefully. So don’t phone it in, or should we say "GPT it in". Surprise us. Make us curious. Make us want to build with you.

Gitwit’s venture studio actively finds problems worth solving and invests the first $500k – $2M to build new companies. Alongside in‑house ventures, we create joint ventures and co‑found new companies with corporate partners, combining our proven venture creation processes with deep domain knowledge.