Full Stack Software Engineer

Hiring Soon

Location:

San Mateo, CA, USA

(or remote within US timezones)

Job Type:

Full-Time

Compensation:

(Learn about our transparent compensation philosophy)

About the Role:

UPDATE: We've just filled this role, but Storytell is growing fast and we expect to be re-opening it as we grow. Please apply if you're interested and we'll reach out to you once we're in an active hiring mode again.

Which OKR(s) is this role tied to:

We drive alignment and focus via our Vision, Mission, Strategy and OKRs. Learn more.

Create a top-notch product that users love.

About the role:

Our Full Stack Software Engineer will work on building our software system and improving it to deliver a better user experience. As a small team, we’re all generalists who work together and jump in wherever needed. The candidate should be extremely capable, willing to get their hands dirty, excited about joining an early-stage company, and thrives off of the pressures and challenges of working in an unstructured environment.

This role reports into: Jing Conan Wang, our CTO

Job responsibilities:

This is the scope of work the job entails — although we are all Crew, so we help each other succeed outside of these core responsibilities

Design and implement exciting new features
We trust you to work largely independently, so you can own every part of a service from top to bottom
Improve the performance of existing features
Iterate quickly on our existing code base
Obsessively taking user feedback into account
Make improvements as you see them, taking initiative to improve the product in a rapidly changing environment
Work closely with the founding team to make key decisions around the direction of the product based on real data and user feedback
Talk to users!

Requirements for this role:

These are the minimum requirements we are looking for in this role

3+ years of experience in full-stack development
Familiarity with JavaScript/Typescript and React
Familiarity with the Python backend (our backend codebase is largely built in Python)
Knowledge of how to build great user experiences across platforms
Be passionate and open-minded about productivity tools and information discovery

The ideal candidate also has:

The ideal candidate will also have these skills in addition to the minimums above

6+ years of experience in full-stack development
Has experience working with Chrome Extensions
Has experience mentoring other full-stack engineers or building a team

What does "Great" look like for this role?

This is how you'll know you're performing this job at a level of excellence

Lives our Shared Values
Be able to deliver and execute with minimal guidance
Operate with a growth mindset
Ability to balance speed with long-term thinking
Proactively thinking about system improvement and unblocking fellow team members
Has adaptability & change agility — this is an ever-changing role with many surprises in store!

We will happily sponsor H1-B Visa.

Learn about our Vision, Mission and Strategy:

Storytell is distilling signal from noise by creating and recommending Story Tiles™.

We are building AI-driven platform that converts any content into Story Tiles™ and uses AI & ML to create useful knowledge — “stories” — to break down organizational silos internally, and fuel go-to-market and recruiting efforts externally.

Dig into our Vision, Mission and Strategy here.

Our Shared Values:

We believe that being aligned on our shared values is the foundation of how we build, belong, and how we show up for each other and to the broader ecosystem. You can find our shared values here.

How We Work Together:

There are many ways to build an amazing company culture and we’re on our journey to define ours. So we ask you for your investment, participation, and intentionality in co-creating the unique culture at Storytell.

We believe in hiring the best talent around the globe; that’s why we have a “distributed first” mindset. For our first dozen hires, we are prioritizing candidates in time zones in or close to US Pacific time to help us collaborate together.

We intentionally look for those who are a value add to our culture. We have internal compensation band transparency to ensure equal pay. We default to asynchronous communication. By reducing the number of meetings, we can build a scalable asynchronous culture and enable us to collaborate across time zones as we grow.

Though we are distributed, we know that nothing replaces the connection that is created in person. That’s why we prioritize in-person offsites, and pay for a WeWork office near you. Each department is empowered and enabled with a healthy budget to hold department-level offsites.

We believe that the small things in work-life really matter and add up. Micro-moments of connection during our work days are essential. We use quarterly OKRs that map to annual goals to ensure that we’re all focused on the most meaningful and impactful work that aligns with our business goals.

Don't Meet Every Single Requirement?

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Storytell we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

We offer you an opportunity to:

Work directly with our C-level executive team
Exercise your problem-solving skills
Learn the fundamentals of a startup
Grow in your career journey through support on many dimensions, such as:

1:1s
Regular trainings
Learning and practicing clean communication

Build our systems and processes
Make a huge contribution to the future of Storytell, AI – and the world!
We will support you if you want to become a Founder someday