Software Engineer

About Gem

Gem helps talent acquisition teams hire with remarkable speed and efficiency through strategic, data-driven recruiting.

With Gem, teams can automate and personalize candidate communication, unify all recruiting touch points into a single system, and get usable data across the entire hiring process. Gem gives every part of the organization the tools to drive results and showcase their impact. It's why users recognize Gem as one of the highest-satisfaction products on G2 with a 4.8/5.0 rating.

Over 1200 Industry Leaders Including Reddit, Figma, CarMax, Robinhood, And UnitedHealth Group Trust Gem To Fuel Their Growth. The Company Has Raised $148M From Renown Investors Including Accel, Greylock, ICONIQ, Sapphire, And Meritech. And Just As We Strive To Help Our Customers Find Great Talent, We Also Invest In Our Own People And Culture.

The Team and Role

• Gem engineers work closely with product managers and designers to influence product direction, company roadmap, and business outcomes.
• We stay close to customers by joining customer calls, and reading customer feedback.
• We enjoy shipping features, moving fast, and being scrappy.
• We are receptive to feedback and continuously work on improving both our product and our craft.
• We work out of our San Francisco office.
• Read more about our company values.

What You’ll Do Day-to-Day

• Own product features end-to-end alongside your product manager, engineering manager and designer.
• Work primarily with Typescript, React, Python, GraphQL, Node, PostgreSQL.
• Collaborate with engineers on your team and across Gem on code reviews, data model, architecture, and product decisions.
• Stay close to our customers.
• Embody our company values of ownership, velocity, customer centricity, diversity and transparency.
• Influence decisions and have direct impact on business outcomes.

About You

• You have industry experience as a software engineer, building user-facing products.
• You move with velocity and invest in improving your craft.
• You are good at driving solutions by communicating and working cross-functionally.
• You are energized by collaborating in-office with your peers.

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