Senior Software Engineer

About Us

Sōsh is changing the way people discover fun things to do with their friends. Since people spend 90% of their time and money offline, this is an incredibly profound problem to solve.

Sōsh is not about deals. Instead, it acts as a personal concierge, helping people discover exceptional local experiences, from cooking classes to scenic hikes to underground cocktail bars. It is seamlessly available across web, mobile web, and iOS.

We are a small and talented team founded by former Google and Slide employees, and backed by amazing investors, including Battery Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Keith Rabois, and Naval Ravikant.

What You Will Do

As the fourth member of our engineering team, you will help us raise Sōsh to undreamt-of heights. From day one, you'll be building an application that excites users, as well as shaping the back-end technology to scale us up.

Sōsh is built atop a stack of EC2 servers, Python, Django and Celery, with MySQL, Redis and Memcache supporting.

About You

You've been a full-time web developer for over five years and have learned to tackle any technology problem in the field. Equally happy writing HTML and JavaScript or analyzing and optimizing MySQL queries, you know all the pieces which add up to a site that delights and dazzles its users.

You care about the product you're working on. You don't just accept a spec and code–you aim to understand the problem we're solving for our users, and regularly offer ideas of how the site can be improved.

When the site slows down, you know exactly where to look to diagnose, the quick-fix to patch things up to get everything working for now, and what you need to attack next to ensure a long-term solution that will prevent this happening again.

When faced with something you haven't tackled before, your adrenaline soars. You take pride in your craft. You write code (at least in part) because you love doing it.

We care more about experience and passion than formal schooling. Computer Science degrees are nice, but experience working on incredible web apps is much more important.

What We Offer

• Responsibility. And a ton of it. We’re looking for people who are passionate about our mission and our product, and want to have an outsized impact.
• Happiness. Our benefits include a flexible vacation policy that literally rewards you for taking your well-deserved time off, catered dinner and healthy snacks every day, a monthly activities budget to explore SF, a TaskRabbit budget to take care of your personal chores, Bose Headphones, a Fitbit, full health benefits, and more.
• A Great Environment. We have a cool office South of Market in SF. We spend long hours and tons of energy building Sōsh—and have a blast doing it together.