# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [CTGT](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ctgt)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Software Design, System Architecture, Internal Apis, Data Models, Core Services
**Posted:** 2026-04-28

> Designs and builds core services for the Policy Engine, owning system architecture, tradeoffs in accuracy/consistency/latency, and internal APIs. Requires 6+ years building non-trivial distributed systems with strong engineering judgment.

## Job Description

## What You Will Do
- Design and build the core services, deciding how the system is decomposed, where state lives, and how components communicate
- Work wherever the problem leads, from data model to product surface
- Make deliberate tradeoffs across accuracy, consistency, availability, and latency
- Define the internal APIs and abstractions that determine system trajectory 6+ months out

## Who You Are
- You have built non-trivial systems and can speak honestly about what aged well and what did not
- You understand distributed systems tradeoffs well enough to make the right call for a given problem
- You are comfortable on both sides of the stack and choose where to work based on the problem
- You have strong opinions about software design and can defend them without being precious about them

## Compensation & Equity
Competitive base compensation, plus significant equity in a venture-backed company with institutional investors including Google’s Gradient Ventures, General Catalyst, and Y Combinator.

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