Full-stack Engineer

Knoetic (rhymes with “poetic”!) has built the world’s #1 social network of Chief People Officers, which includes the CPOs of Lyft, Dropbox, and Bumble and 1,000 more. And we’ve built a people analytics platform used by most of the hypergrowth tech companies of our generation, including:

But what’s really exciting is what’s to come - delivering the grand vision of a people “decision engine” that helps (a) companies use data to make better decisions on compensation, diversity, retention, and (b) employees make better decisions about their career.

You have to see it for yourself :)

We’re a Series A stage company backed with $20MM from legendary investors like Accel, NYT bestselling author Adam Grant, and 100+ founders + executives from companies like Mozilla, Heap, Google, Pinterest, and more. You can read more about Knoetic here.

We are looking for Full-stack Engineers to join our engineering team at Knoetic! You'll have the opportunity to work across the stack, front to back, and everything in between. You’ll take ideas from inception to reality by rapidly building prototypes, iterating, and releasing them. You’ll build scalable products that make the people analytics experience for CPOs, people leaders, and an entire organization simpler, safer, and more efficient.

Within your first week, you will:

• Onboard and learn more about the company’s mission, culture, and values. You’ll write a user manual and a Professional Development Plan outlining exactly how you want to grow professionally over the next 2-3 years.
• Understand Knoetic's tech infrastructure at a very high level. We will pair you up with an onboarding buddy to help you get up to speed
• Deploy your first Pull Request to the production. We move fast! :)

Within your first month, you will:

• Participate in roadmapping and architecture discussions
• Pair program with talented, ambitious engineers in a highly-collaborative team
• Collaborate with our product manager and product designer to deliver a low/medium-sized project

At three months, you'll be fully ramped! You will:

• Lead a complex project from inception to deployment and drive ambitious technical projects that immediately impact our users
• Identify, evaluate, and define improvements to the existing infrastructure and product
• Go above and beyond to deliver a project which is outside of your core team and expertise
• Lead a lunch and learn session on the topic of your choice :)

• 2+ years of experience with building modern web applications using Javascript frameworks
• Experience with frameworks such as NodeJS and Typescript
• Extensive knowledge of SQL databases
• Bonus: Experience with CubeJS

• You like to win. You don’t want a trophy for effort, you want it for first place.
• You’re high IQ, intellectually curious, and intellectually humble. You’re not afraid to say, “I don’t know - but I’ll figure it out, fast.”
• You never say, “that’s not my job” - you take full ownership and responsibility over outcomes. You’re a force of nature that gets the job done no matter what it takes.
• You make everyone else on the team better. Your presence, positivity, and drive inspires others to step up their game. You put the company above your own wants.
• You’re known for your work ethic. You pride yourself on being one of the hardest-working person most people know.
• You’re constantly improving. You know there’s no such thing as perfection, and you’re always pushing yourself (and our company) to be better than you were yesterday.
• You’re just good: You’re honest, principled, smart, open to giving/receiving feedback, and focused on doing right for the company and doing right for the customer

• You want to join an incredibly ambitious team to build the #1 company in this space, without exception.
• You're looking for an exciting opportunity at a rapidly scaling startup.
• Benefits (full medical/dental/vision insurance, learning budget, WFH stipend, 401k, etc.)
• We’re remote-friendly with a global team!
• Check out our careers page for the full rundown.

Written by our founder in 2020.

Intellectual curiosity: I want to surround myself with people who are endlessly curious, who are always asking questions, who are fascinated with understanding others and the world around them. We’re the kids who grew up always asking “Why?”

Intellectual humility: I want to work with people who embrace the scientific method, who go into conversations with an open mind and ear, who are looking for ways to sharpen their thinking, who are delighted to find out when they’re wrong rather than invested in defending why they’re right.

Relentless resourcefulness: Our company should be full of people who will run through walls to get to their goals, who will bring more solutions than problems to others, who will figure out a way to succeed no matter what.

Winning: We are ambitious, and we want to win. We don’t want a trophy for effort or for “good enough” - we want it for first place

Positive impact on others: There are people, who by the very virtue of their presence, make everyone else around them a better person. It could be because they have unwaveringly high standards. Or are incredible givers that inspire generosity. Or are teachers of their peers. However they do it, they push others upwards. They are culture accretive; their very presence makes everyone else step up their game.

Speed: We’re a team with a bias for action (paired with good judgment), a desire to get more done faster, because we know it’s the only way we’ll win. 

Positivity: You know it when you see it - can-do, optimistic. That doesn’t mean everyone doesn’t have down moments - it just means on balance, you walk away from your interactions with them energized and charged up to do more with your life.

Continuous improvement: We’re always making ourselves better. Stasis is the enemy… if you’re not going forwards, you’re going backwards. Everything is a work-in-progress in perpetuity - yourself included.

Note - even if you don’t check every box in the job description, we still encourage you to apply!

Knoetic is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace, and does not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, or any legally protected status. If you’re missing a few qualifications or don’t have the exact experience listed above, you may still be the next right candidate for this role or another role we have open at Knoetic!

We look forward to hopefully meeting you soon!