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Working At RippleMatch
The current status quo of finding a first job is broken: Traditional career services and job boards with millions of postings aren't very helpful, and figuring out where to begin your career is a difficult and overwhelming decision. It's also not a fair contest. For many Gen Z candidates, opportunity is limited based on where they attend school and their personal networks.RippleMatch is changing the way Gen Z finds work.
Our recruitment platform leverages AI to automate inbound applicant review and outbound sourcing, matching candidates to the right roles and eliminating the most time-intensive parts of the recruitment process for both sides. Leading employers leverage RippleMatch to build diverse, high-performing teams and Gen Z job seekers across the country trust RippleMatch to launch and grow their careers.
Since launching RippleMatch from a college dorm room in 2016, we've raised $88 million in venture funding including from prominent investors like Goldman Sachs helped tens of thousands of users find jobs, expanded to 1,700 colleges & universities, and brought on hundreds of leading employers as customers (such as EY, eBay, MongoDB, and more). Our tight-knit lean team of talented people work hard, celebrate wins, and care deeply about changing the way finding a job works.
The Role
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our highly collaborative team of thoughtful engineers and help us build the platform for hiring the next generation of talent. Were building the new way for job seekers to develop and display their skills in this rapidly evolving talent market, and helping companies change the way that they find highly-qualified, AI-enabled talent.
The Senior Software Engineer will join our Research and Development team and help our existing team to continue to build momentum as we enter an exciting new phase of expansion in our product. With the hiring market evolving fast, were looking for experienced professionals to join the team and make an impact immediately. The right candidate for the job will bring proven experience with technologies in our existing tech stack.
Backend: Python, Flask, FastAPI, Pydantic, Postgres
Frontend: VueJS, TypeScript, NX
In addition to writing code that adheres to best practices and internal processes, you will also work closely with QA and Product Management. As a part of the team, you will participate in and shape not only the features that we ship, but the internal processes we use to stay on track.
We have a one-of-a-kind team with a super collaborative and very contagious positive attitude. We are hard-working people who care deeply about our mission and building the highest quality product we can build. The team enjoys and excels at mentoring and learning from each other.
While all engineers on the team have a specialty and focus, all team members also are ready to do whatever it takes for everyone to win. This is an amazing opportunity to contribute in meaningful ways to an exciting product.
What You'll Do
At RippleMatch, we understand that our success stems from the people we have on board, which is why we invest heavily in our teams well-being and growth. We offer a full slate of perks including equity, paid vacation, a pre-tax commuter program, discounted Citi Bike and Peloton memberships, and our favorite thing comprehensive FREE healthcare benefits. We work hard to foster a culture of constant self-improvement, true ownership, and positivity. At our core, we are a tight-knit team that works hard, celebrates wins, and cares deeply about changing the way finding a job works. We are going to fundamentally transform the hiring landscape and wont settle for anything less.
All of our roles can be worked remotely, and all employees operate on Eastern Time regardless of location. While working remotely is fully supported, we also deeply value in-person connection in our physical office conveniently located near Union Square in NYC! For team members within a commutable distance to NYC, we encourage coming into the office a few days a week to foster collaboration, build relationships, and strengthen our culture face-to-face!We host monthly virtual events as well as monthly in-person events, team-wide virtual activities every month like Wellness Challenges, and a time to hear from our founders regularly regardless of location. Creating strong bonds between RippleMatch team members means a lot to us and, while we know that this can be done remotely, we also invest heavily in creating opportunities to make sure remote employees get plenty of in-person time. We offer in-person onboarding, travel benefits and both virtual and in-person team building activities!
RippleMatch is a proud equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
The current status quo of finding a first job is broken: Traditional career services and job boards with millions of postings aren't very helpful, and figuring out where to begin your career is a difficult and overwhelming decision. It's also not a fair contest. For many Gen Z candidates, opportunity is limited based on where they attend school and their personal networks.RippleMatch is changing the way Gen Z finds work.
Our recruitment platform leverages AI to automate inbound applicant review and outbound sourcing, matching candidates to the right roles and eliminating the most time-intensive parts of the recruitment process for both sides. Leading employers leverage RippleMatch to build diverse, high-performing teams and Gen Z job seekers across the country trust RippleMatch to launch and grow their careers.
Since launching RippleMatch from a college dorm room in 2016, we've raised $88 million in venture funding including from prominent investors like Goldman Sachs helped tens of thousands of users find jobs, expanded to 1,700 colleges & universities, and brought on hundreds of leading employers as customers (such as EY, eBay, MongoDB, and more). Our tight-knit lean team of talented people work hard, celebrate wins, and care deeply about changing the way finding a job works.
The Role
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our highly collaborative team of thoughtful engineers and help us build the platform for hiring the next generation of talent. Were building the new way for job seekers to develop and display their skills in this rapidly evolving talent market, and helping companies change the way that they find highly-qualified, AI-enabled talent.
The Senior Software Engineer will join our Research and Development team and help our existing team to continue to build momentum as we enter an exciting new phase of expansion in our product. With the hiring market evolving fast, were looking for experienced professionals to join the team and make an impact immediately. The right candidate for the job will bring proven experience with technologies in our existing tech stack.
Backend: Python, Flask, FastAPI, Pydantic, Postgres
Frontend: VueJS, TypeScript, NX
In addition to writing code that adheres to best practices and internal processes, you will also work closely with QA and Product Management. As a part of the team, you will participate in and shape not only the features that we ship, but the internal processes we use to stay on track.
We have a one-of-a-kind team with a super collaborative and very contagious positive attitude. We are hard-working people who care deeply about our mission and building the highest quality product we can build. The team enjoys and excels at mentoring and learning from each other.
While all engineers on the team have a specialty and focus, all team members also are ready to do whatever it takes for everyone to win. This is an amazing opportunity to contribute in meaningful ways to an exciting product.
What You'll Do
- Deliver high quality, well tested code that adheres to documented standards
- Work with Product and other engineers to shape the vision for new features
- Design architectural documentation to help guide future product development
- Partner with QA to ensure that everything we deliver is high quality
- Take initiative to resolve bugs and research issues as they arise
- Actively find new ways that we can leverage AI in the product, and in daily workflows
- Proficient in crafting code that is not only functional but also extensible
- Skilled in conveying complex ideas in a clear and understandable manner
- Demonstrates a profound understanding of software development concepts
- Able to balance flexibility and adaptability in the face of change
- Capable of engaging in discussions about trade-offs between various architectures or approaches
- Driven by a genuine passion for delivering an outstanding product
- Takes ownership of mistakes and learns from them
At RippleMatch, we understand that our success stems from the people we have on board, which is why we invest heavily in our teams well-being and growth. We offer a full slate of perks including equity, paid vacation, a pre-tax commuter program, discounted Citi Bike and Peloton memberships, and our favorite thing comprehensive FREE healthcare benefits. We work hard to foster a culture of constant self-improvement, true ownership, and positivity. At our core, we are a tight-knit team that works hard, celebrates wins, and cares deeply about changing the way finding a job works. We are going to fundamentally transform the hiring landscape and wont settle for anything less.
All of our roles can be worked remotely, and all employees operate on Eastern Time regardless of location. While working remotely is fully supported, we also deeply value in-person connection in our physical office conveniently located near Union Square in NYC! For team members within a commutable distance to NYC, we encourage coming into the office a few days a week to foster collaboration, build relationships, and strengthen our culture face-to-face!We host monthly virtual events as well as monthly in-person events, team-wide virtual activities every month like Wellness Challenges, and a time to hear from our founders regularly regardless of location. Creating strong bonds between RippleMatch team members means a lot to us and, while we know that this can be done remotely, we also invest heavily in creating opportunities to make sure remote employees get plenty of in-person time. We offer in-person onboarding, travel benefits and both virtual and in-person team building activities!
RippleMatch is a proud equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.