Software Engineer, Price Experience

Responsibilities

• Turn ambiguous requirements into plans and drive work forward with appropriate support.
• Own projects end-to-end, from understanding the request through deployment and production monitoring.
• Build provider- and pet parent-facing features that make pricing clear, fair, and actionable.
• Diagnose issues across the team's technical domain.
• Apply monitoring practices to identify and respond to production issues.
• Contribute to code quality through reviews, architectural discussions, and clear, well-tested code.
• Communicate status, blockers, and priorities proactively.
• Document work and maintain accurate team documentation.
• Participate in and improve established team processes.
• Use AI tools effectively for coding, debugging, refactoring, code review, and exploring unfamiliar codebases.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Backend engineering experience, ideally with Python and Django; experience with Java, Go, C#, or Kotlin is also welcome.
• Working knowledge of web application development, ideally with React or a similar modern frontend framework.
• Familiarity with relational databases and basic schema design.
• Experience or growing comfort with structured logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Strong automated testing practices, including unit and integration tests.
• Experience using AI coding assistants such as Claude Code or Copilot, with the ability to validate generated output critically.

Nice to Have

• Experience with distributed-systems patterns, including Celery, RabbitMQ, Memcached, Redis, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience designing REST APIs at scale, using Django REST Framework or an equivalent.
• Exposure to continuous deployment pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience building custom AI-assisted development workflows and automating repetitive tasks.

Compensation and Benefits

• Greater Seattle area first-year salary range: $108,694–$136,046.
• 401(k) match and a long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout.
• Flexible PTO and medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Commuter benefits.
• Dog-friendly workplace and pet benefits, including $1,000 toward adopting a first dog or cat.
• Stocked fridges, coffee, soda, treats, and monthly catered lunches.
• Regular in-person and virtual team activities.