Senior Software Engineer

Description

Who We Are

30,000 products are launched every year, and 90% of them fail. Highlight is the first and only end-to-end agile product testing platform, enabling the efficient collection of scaled product performance data. Brands like Nestle, P&G, and Estee Lauder rely on Highlight for competitive benchmarking, pre-launch formulation testing, in-market product renovation, and more, to optimize product success. Highlight, launched in 2021, has seen runaway growth and scale, having tested hundreds of products at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional analog methods, and becoming the dominant SaaS platform in the product testing space. Highlight is a woman-owned, minority-owned startup on a mission to create better products for people and the planet. We’re a diverse and collaborative team committed to fostering an environment of innovation, impact, and growth.

We are looking for an experienced front end software engineer to join our team. Our team’s goal is to revolutionize how survey data is presented and understood. We're on a quest to turn complex data into clear, actionable insights for our users. Our software engineering team is building intuitive visualization tools that allow users to explore and make sense of user testing results beyond traditional reports. We are empowering decision-makers by making data not just accessible, but insightful and actionable.

Your Impact

• Work within a team following the Empowered Product Teams model

• Assume responsibility for features and functionalities that directly contribute to the overall business impact

• Adopt a test-driven development methodology, demonstrating a strong commitment to excellence and quality

• Influence foundational technical decisions

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver a delightful customer experience

• Embrace an experimental and resourceful approach to assist the team in making well-informed, data-driven decisions

• Craft scalable solutions while building software for growth

About You

• 5+ years of experience in a software engineering role with a focus on front-end technologies

• Comfortable back-end systems to accomplish regular tasks

• Experience working on product-minded teams with end-to-end ownership of the product

• Hold a bias toward action and delivery

• Work with a deep understanding of your  users and focus your efforts on delivering user value

• Thrive in a deeply collaborative environment (designers, PMs, engineers, and stakeholders)

• Passionate about quality, security and SRE

• Proactive and driven individual with a keen attention to detail, strong analytical capabilities and excels in both independent and team-oriented environments

• Experience working with any of our tech stack: React, Typescript, C#, AWS, GraphQL, Postgres DB, and DataDog

• Prior experience working in fast-paced startups is a plus

Product Development Values

• We are deeply curious

• We are data-driven

• We are customer-obsessed

• We thrive on big ideas and experimentation

• We are intentional and thoughtful

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision) with 100% premiums covered

• Unlimited PTO

• Flexible, remote WFH culture

• Access to the iconic Hearst Tower & its facilities in NYC (should you choose to ever be in person)

• Starting base salary for this position is ~$120,000 - $150,000

You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. At Highlight, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful. We are committed to building a team that comes from a wide range of backgrounds - including but not limited to - race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, disability, and veteran status. If you’re someone who can think rigorously and isn’t afraid to challenge assumptions, join us.

We've built a world-class team with decades of experience in the space. We’ve encountered the problems we’re trying to solve first hand and care deeply about making better products. We’ve been fortunate to raise a seed round from First Round Capital as well as experienced angels and insiders to help us further our mission. We’re also a passionate, capable, and empathetic team who live by our Humans First value. We have fun, we care about one another, and we’re all in on tacos.