About the role
Software Engineer Department: Engineering Employment Type: Full Time Location: Remote (USA)
Compensation: $125,000 - $145,000 / year Description Desmos Studio is on a mission to help everyone learn math, love math, and grow with math. We’re a Public Benefit Corporation, profitable, and serve more than 100 million people around the world, so we’re fully in charge of our destiny and can make long-term bets. One of those long-term bets is on you . We’re looking for promising software engineers who are early in their career and want to rapidly grow. You’re curious, you love to build things, and especially love to build things that feel just right . You’re collaborative and generous and are eager to develop as an engineer. You’ve experimented with, and recognize the power of, AI tools, but also love the craft of software engineering and fundamentally believe in the importance of building for – and by – humans. You (probably) love math and (definitely) love helping people learn, grow, and communicate with math. Our tools engineering team is focused on developing best-in-class math tools across 2D and 3D graphing, geometry, Desmos Notebook, and more. We build products that are simultaneously intuitive enough to be used in middle school classrooms and powerful enough to be used by professionals in fields ranging from game design to pharmaceuticals. What you should show up ready to teach anyone on your first day: Something you’ve made that you’re really proud of (an app, a website, a physical project, even a Desmos graph). How you’ve approached design decisions in a project you contributed to (whether that’s something you’ve built alone or on a team), including alternatives and trade-offs you made. The tech stack you currently build with and where you hope to grow your skills. Your favorite mathematical topic. Our commitment to accessibility and how to keep accessibility in mind during the development process. Our approach to building software that works every time: scoping, design, architecture, code review, testing, automation, monitoring, and more. Plus, how a healthy engineering culture helps build production-quality software. Our 1-year goals, long-term aspirations, and how being a Public Benefit Corporation manifests in our work as a profitable business. Our communities of users, including on Discord and Reddit , and how we learn from and with them. Introduce yourself on Slack to your new co-workers! Learn about our process for writing, testing, and deploying code. Ask a ton of questions. Ship your first piece of code to production! Familiarize yourself with the technologies and frameworks we use, and how we’ve adapted them to our unique needs (e.g. Typescript, Node, Postgres, Redis, Mathquill, ProseMirror, our in-house, front-end framework). Contribute to your first user-facing feature in collaboration with other teams (product, design, support, business). Start participating in pair programming and reviewing code from other engineers. You'll provide careful, deliberate reviews while quickly internalizing feedback on your own PRs to learn team standards. Become a reliable, independent contributor across several areas of the codebase, consistently leaving our code more consistent, clean, and robust than you found it. Help our team improve, including by improving our internal tooling and sharing ideas and learnings with other members of