Staff Software Engineer

🕒 August 9, 2025

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $190k - $245k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Laurel

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

⚡ Productivity

☁️ SaaS

Productivity • SaaS

Laurel is a company that offers a digital timekeeping solution, enabling users to manage and track their time efficiently. The platform provides a streamlined timekeeping experience through an easy-to-use interface, accessible via signing into their service.

📋 Description

• Laurel is on a mission to return time. As the leading AI Time platform for professional services firms, we’re transforming how organizations capture, analyze, and optimize their most valuable resource: time. • Our proprietary machine learning technology automates work time capture and connects time data to business outcomes, enabling firms to increase profitability, improve client delivery, and make data-driven strategic decisions. • We serve many of the world's largest accounting and law firms, including EY, Grant Thornton, and Latham & Watkins, and process over 1 billion work activities annually that have never been collected and aggregated before Laurel’s AI Time platform. • Our team comprises top talent in AI, product development, and engineering—innovative, humble, and forward-thinking professionals committed to redefining productivity in the knowledge economy. • If you're passionate about transforming how people work and building a lasting company that explores the essence of time itself, we'd love to meet you. • We are looking for a highly experienced Software Engineer to join our team. You’ll have a direct impact on engineering practices throughout the stack (front/back) and are expected to raise the bar for the engineers around you. • AI will fundamentally change the nature of work and how we think about work. As a Software Engineer at Laurel, you’ll have the capacity to understand and impact the experiences of our customers, standing at the forefront of the mission to return time to our customers.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • 8+ years of professional experience in software development, with a focus on full-stack development. Significant experience with modern web technologies is preferred • Have deep knowledge and understanding, as well as strongly-held opinions about some of the below technologies (or similar). We want to hear your thoughts on best practices, patterns, code smells, ways to improve performance, etc. What things would you teach our other engineers? What has bitten you in the past? What things help you consistently deliver software that is of the highest quality, and why? • Required: Strong understanding of React, Typescript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS • Nice to Have: Familiarity with NextJS, TailwindCSS, component libraries • Required: Strong understanding of Typescript, Node.js, messaging queues (ie. AWS SQS), MongoDB, NestJS • Nice to have: Experience with Python (Django, FastAPI, or Flask). Familiarity with Airflow and PostgreSQL • Take ownership over our product and the parts of it that you’re responsible for. You should be invested and have a proven history of early action and initiative, rather than waiting for direction as this is an important part of working at Laurel • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think critically and creatively. Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment • A customer mindset with proven ability to engage with customers and understand their needs • Experience in AI, is strongly preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Great employee benefits, including equity and 401K • Bi-annual, in-person company off-sites, in unique locations, to grow and share time with the team • A smart, fun, collaborative, and inclusive team • To date, we've secured significant funding from renowned venture capitalists (Google Ventures, IVP, Anthos, Upfront Ventures), as well as notable individuals like Marc Benioff, Gokul Rajaram, Kevin Weil, and Alexis Ohanian • An opportunity to perform at your best while growing, making a meaningful impact on the company's trajectory, and embodying our core values: understanding your "why," dancing in the rain, being your whole self, and sanctifying time • We encourage diverse perspectives and rigorous thinkers who aren't afraid to challenge the status quo.