Senior engineer (backend)
Software Engineering
Why join koodos labs?
koodos labs is a consumer AI research and product company dedicated to ensuring that the internet knows you and can do things for you, on your terms. We are the company behind Shelf, the leading personal context platform used by millions of people to track and understand what they consume. Read about the co-founders and their story here. They’ve raised 3 (unannounced) rounds from the world’s leading investors, and their Board is comprised of Pinterest’s co-founder, Facebook’s first head of monetization and a leading GP.
You should join koodos labs for the people and our mission.
We aspire to build the best team of the 2020s. Just like PayPal in the 90s, Google in the 00s, and Stripe in the 10s, we want to be known as "a place where it's good to be from." If you join us, we promise to be the best place to grow your career — with the best people you've ever worked with. We’re also working on a very bold mission.
Read more about working at koodos labs here.
What we’re building
Shelf is used millions of people to track what they’re watching, reading, listening to & more, and to keep up with what others are into. Shelf connects to your favorite platforms, shares back insights from your behavior, and will soon let you share that context with services to enable personalized intelligence, on your terms.
The Opportunity
We believe that the way consumers and businesses interact with their data will drastically improve in the next few years. Koodos Labs is building the products and infrastructure that’ll usher this shift and you'll be essential in achieving this vision.
We’re looking for an experienced, thoughtful senior software engineer to accelerate our product development and ability to scalably generate insights.
In this role you will:
We’re early stage, so you'll have an outsized equity stake and an unparalleled opportunity to shape the product direction. Engineers at koodos labs decide what gets built and why, in addition to figuring out how.
We're NY-based (we have our own office in West Soho) and we work in-person.
Ideal Candidate
We recognize that a confidence gap might discourage amazing candidates from applying. Every job description is a wish list, so please reach out if this role really excites you.
You’re likely a good fit if you are:
What you'll do
Day 1: You’ll merge your first PR. We want our developer experience to be as smooth as possible, so this first day is a good test of how we’re doing there.
Day 7: You’ll ship your first feature to production. We believe in learning-by-doing, so we’ll assign you a small feature that lets you run through our full feature planning and development pipeline. We’ll make sure you have support at every step along the way.
Day 50: You’ll help ship code across the backend, from services to CI/CD. As an early-stage startup, we have high-impact features all across our codebase, and you’ll be able to build solutions wherever the need arises.
In the Future: You’ll become a senior leader at koodos labs. We expect the early team to grow into high-impact roles as the company scales.
How we interview
We aim to move fast — typically two weeks end-to-end. We find this works best for both us and you!
And we focus on real-world experience, demonstrated ability, and references. No riddles or binary tree puzzles — just a thoughtful look at what you’ve done and where you’re headed.
Introduction: We’ll kick things off by sharing a short video about the team and role. It’s a great way to get context and prep questions ahead of our call.
Technical Screening: A conversation with our CTO to dig into your background, goals, and share more about what we’re building at koodos.
Take-Home Exercise: A short video from you walking through your experience with tools and challenges relevant to our work, or perhaps links to your open source contributions.
Cultural Screening: If things are feeling like a fit, we’ll do a second interview — a session with our CEO, this time focused on what we look for in team members (see here for more).
Onsite: You’ll meet the team. We spread this across two days to reduce load:
Day 1: System design deep dive
Day 2: Lunch with the team, behavioral interview, and a DevOps discussion
References: We’ll ask for 2–3 references, and may also reach out to others you’ve worked with (let us know if there are any sensitivities). We’ll keep it brief and respectful — usually ~15 mins per call. You’re also welcome to reference check us.
Decision: We’ll move quickly on our end.
How to apply
If interested, please drop us a line on team@koodos.com with your resume and your thoughts on how personalization could work for Shelf.
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