Staff Software Engineer

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July 31

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Beautiful.ai

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SaaS • Productivity • Artificial Intelligence

Beautiful. ai is a leading AI-powered presentation software company that revolutionizes the way businesses create presentations. The platform offers a wide range of smart slide templates to help users quickly design professional-looking presentations without a graphic design background. Beautiful. ai automates the design process, saving users time by formatting slides on autopilot and ensuring brand consistency across teams with features like universal updates and brand control. Ideal for businesses of all sizes, Beautiful. ai enhances productivity by allowing seamless collaboration and efficient presentation creation across various platforms.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2016

☁️ SaaS

⚡ Productivity

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $11M Series B on 2018-05

📋 Description

• As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll take ownership of complex, high-impact features across the product, leveraging your deep expertise in full-stack development with JavaScript, Node.js, React, CSS, and MongoDB. • You’ll lead technical initiatives, provide mentorship to senior engineers, and help define the technical direction of the product, ensuring scalability, performance, and alignment with business goals while driving innovation within the engineering team. • This is a hands-on role! You will be writing code and building systems as a major part of your day-to-day work. • Lead the design and development of high-impact features and services across the full stack using JavaScript, Node.js, React, CSS, and MongoDB, ensuring scalability, performance, maintainability, and a delightful user experience. • Provide technical leadership within the team, driving best practices and ensuring that high engineering standards are maintained across the product. • Mentor and guide senior and junior engineers, helping them grow their technical expertise and ensuring effective knowledge sharing within the team. Play a key role in developing the team’s technical capabilities. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, and other engineering teams, to shape the direction of new features and improvements. • Own complex technical challenges, from troubleshooting and debugging to optimizing performance and improving the architecture of core components. • Define and implement technical strategies for improving the overall product, such as optimizing front-end performance and reliability, improving code quality, or enhancing the CI/CD pipeline. • Troubleshoot and resolve incidents during on-call rotations, ensuring minimal downtime and fast recovery.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). A Master’s degree is a plus. • 7+ years of hands-on experience in Software Engineering, with a product development focus. • Strong hands-on experience with react, typescript, javascript, and full stack development is required. • Proven track record of delivering high impact product features from product definition and planning through execution to successful completion. • Strong product and analytical thinking, with the ability to collaborate closely with product partners to evaluate tradeoffs, assess technical feasibility, and guide decision-making through clear pros/cons analysis grounded in technical complexity, effort, and impact. • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. Ability to take on a role of a thought leader for the team and influence technical decisions throughout the organization. • Demonstrated ability to partner with organizational leadership to help shape engineering strategy, influence resourcing decisions, and contribute to effective team design. • Bay Area candidates preferred, or open to occasional travel as needed.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible Time-Off & Remote Work • Health Insurance – 100% employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees; 60–65% coverage for dependents. • Retirement Plan – Comprehensive 401(k) program. • Savings Accounts – Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options available. • Equity Compensation – Competitive equity package with a 4-year vesting schedule. • Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance – Coverage provided where applicable. • Parental Leave – Inclusive leave for birthing and non-birthing parents; policies vary by state. • Volunteer Time Off (VTO) – Paid day off to support a nonprofit or community cause.